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CATESOL conference was an exciting experience. I have never been to any conference in the USA. Technology allows us to be flexible and attend the event at a convenient time. However, I prefer to meet people in person than the online platform. The representatives of my choice were great.

The first topic of my interest was the topic of Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy. I will write a research paper on culturally responsive pedagogy. The speaker talked about cultural differences between students in the Chinese classroom and the American classroom. It was interesting to listen to their behavior of appreciating the teacher and staying silent, and finding ways to help them be more open and trustful.

I was excited to meet David Burke, author of Slangman because I am working with international students, and they would like to engage with American culture fully. I did not have a chance to listen to the presentation due to the technical issue. However, idioms and slang are not the common language learning parts they used to learn.

Another speaker that brought my attention was Doctor Stephen Krashen. It looks that so many people like him because they made so many good comments and thanks to him for his engaging English language learners' stories. As a non-native speaker, I appreciated his comments about speaking with an accent that many people are struggling with when they talk, so they prefer to stay silent.  

I will take with the ideas about different research methods that I can use for my research. I will also use many different stories to prove my point educational for ELL students, as Krashen did. People love to listen to exciting stories, and more likely, we will remember stories than just scholarly research.

One of the presentations at the conference was writing the notes on Padlet about another form of wall comments. They talked about Linoit that has a similarity with Padlet. Linoit allowed more pages to post for free than Padlet, easy to set up, and much more color to play with.

My opinion that the CATESOL conference is for experienced teachers or for those who had little experience in teaching. Some professional term was not easy to engage with, and some discussion had no sense to me. Only Krashen's stories were interesting to listen to and realize how many things we might miss about ELL learners' cultural outcomes.

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