Teachers of English to
Speakers of Other Languages
Aotearoa New Zealand

MANATESOL

Welcome to MANATESOL, the Manawatu Association of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages.

MANATESOL is actively involved in promoting second language teaching in the Manawatu. We do this through organising regular workshops and seminars featuring some of New Zealand's premier second language educators.

PALMERSTON NORTH, the home city of MANATESOL, has a large non-native English speaking population and a number of centres for second language teaching, linguistics and TESL, including Massey University, Universal College Of Learning, Education Training Consultants (ETC), Queen Elizabeth College and International Pacific College. In addition, the Home Tutor Program and Open Learning Centre have a significant presence in the local TESOL environment. Primary and secondary schools provide support for many children whose parents are associated with these tertiary and PTE establishments.

 Contacts

Chair: Gwenna Finikin email

Secretary: Annette

Treasurer: Jess Yap email

Webpage: Anne McCarthy email







2017
Saturday 18th November: AGM at ETC English Language School, Square
From 9.30, a series of speakers enlivened us. Gilllian Skyrme gave us a verbal memoir of her experiences
in helping set up English Language Partners nationally, and her subsequent voluntary and career 
involvements with second language. Edward Trong Nhan Nguyen, a recent graduate from IPU, then 
presented some fun, motivating games that he used when volunteering at the Literacy classes at ELP. 
After a delicious morning tea of middle Eastern food from La La Zar Womens' Group from Afghanistan, 
Rike Tegge explained some aspects from her doctorate on the use of songs in teaching..
The morning ended with the AGM, where a wide variety of institutions became representative as 
committee members for the following year. Congratulations to Gwenna. who retained the Chair role,
to Annette as Secretary, and to Jess as Treasurer.








Jess and la La Zar representative.


Waiting for the show to begin.




Morning tea refreshments.


Catching the moment.

















Catching up..


Sharing resources.








Passing the bomb.


A listening audience.













MANATESOL CHAIR'S REPORT 2017.
 This year MANATESOL has had a number of events. 
In March James Lowry talked to us about his work with For Better, his charity which 
helps to break down barriers in education for students from refugee backgrounds. 
www.forbetter.org In May we held a symposium with speakers talking on a number 
of topics. Muhammad Raza talked about the refugee experience and his work as a 
Red Cross youth worker. Masu recounted her experiences as a secondary school 
student in a refugee camp in Thailand. Yaro talked about his experiences as an English 
for Employees student at English Language Partners. Mary Cherian-Matthews spoke 
about opening her house at Christmas for new New Zealanders. Heather Thomas gave 
an update on her PHD research around contemplative teaching across the disciplines 
in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Ken Kilpin talked about working on a course for the Chinese 
Scholarship Council recipients. August saw us having a social gathering with a talk 
from Donna Bliss on her experiences teaching on a short course in China. We then
 went to the Mediterranean Food House for a meal. The AGM included Gillian Skyrme 
talking about her career in TESOL, Edward Trong Nhan Nguyen sharing teaching resources
 and Rike Tegge looking at using songs to support learning. Next year is CLESOL year 
so we look forward to having a practise for those who are going to speak and a recap 
after the event. I would also like to have something held in Taranaki as we have a 
number of members there and we have only had one event there over the last few years. 
A big thanks to English Language Partners, Hokowhitu School and ETC for their generosity 
and hospitality, the speakers who have given their time during the year and the committee 
for all their hard work. 
Gwenna Finikin MANATESOL Chair

Friday August 25th: DINNER and RECOLLECTIONS 
OF INNOVATIVE TEACHING IN CHINA


On Friday evening, Donna Bliss informed and entertained Manatesol members with her recollections of 
teaching for 12 weeks in Shanghai at a secondary girl's school. As the Curriculum Co-ordinator at PaCE,
Massey, Palmerston North, Donna had created a syllabus for 18yr olds interested in coming to Massey 
University to learn. She explained the impact of her Western teaching techniques on both the Shanghai 
teachers and students, in the context of local cultural and learning practices which she found interesting. 
Overall, she felt the experience to be stimulating and eye-opening.
After the presentation, audience members walked from the English Learning Partners site, to a new 
Mediterranean diner, where we enjoyed a mix of Turkish, Jordanian and Italian food. 
Thank you to the committee and Donna for organizing this event, which left the audience reflecting on 
possibilities of combining future travel and second language learning experiences, for themselves.






Saturday May 27th-MINI SYMPOSIUM
On Saturday morning, Hokowhitu primary school became the site for the Manatesol mini-symposium. 
 over the morning, to hear different speakers. Overall, the group presenters had a thematic focus of either
 academic or community involvements.One of the first presenters was Heather Thomas discussing her
 doctoral work on Mindfulness, and how it can foster reflectivity, emotional resilience and creativity in 


After fuelling with beverages, attendees had the choice to split into one of two groups, repeated three times

second language teaching. As well, Masu described her experiences as a secondary school student in a
 refugee camp in Thailand, in contrast to adult education at English Language Partners locally. 
The second round consisted of refugee-migrant background Muhammed Raza and his work as a Red Cross
 Youth Co-Ordinator. Raza had previously set up a Profession Education Network (PEN) in England, to help 
Pakistani migrants access support. Also, Ukraine migrant Yaro described his experiences as a student in 
the English for Employees evening class, taught by Trish Smart, at English Language Partners. After 
refreshments, the last round included Ken Kilpin describing his work organising and managing a 3-6 month
curriculum course for China Scholarship Council scholarship recipients. These were Chinese lecturers and
 scholars interested in increasing their useof interactive teaching strategies, while also understanding New
 Zealand educational pedagogy. In addition, Further, Mary Matthews recounted her experiences of attending
 a 2016 Christmas festival with families of refugees.Many thanks to the committee for organising this event,
 and to the presenters for their input. We look forward to a future guest speaker event in July. 





Muhammed Raza answers a question.


Yaro explains his experiences. 





Masu recalls.


Ken prepares for his talk.









Jess and Mary explain. 


The audience listens.




The audience responds.


Heather refers to the power-point.








March 19th: Advertisement for ALANZ for any interested parties.


March 10
We had a meet and greet hosted by English Language Partners Palmerston North.
Our guest speaker was James Lowry of www.forbetter.org. 'For Better' works to break down barriers in education for children from a refugee background. James is looking for support to crowd fund this charity. He and his team are doing a great job and his web page is well worth a look.




Proposed Calendar for 2017
May 27th: Commmunity ESOL Symposium at 9.30am at Hokowhitu school
August 25th: working in China - Talk and dinner at ELP with Donna Bliss

November 11th: AGM with guest speaker TBA
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2016 Calendar 
 
March 18: Meet and Greet. 6 pm. English Language Partners Palmerston North rooms. Bring a plate for dinner. 
 
June 11. Mini-Conference – Practice for presenters with feedback. 
 
July 14-17 CLESOL
 
August 20: Post CLESOL mini-conference and AGM. 
 
October 15: Post graduate updates presentations. 
 
November: ALANZ Symposium. MANATESOL members are invited.
 
November 25: End of year meal. 
 
2015
Previous Events
AGM

The MANATESOL AGM was held on Saturday November 7 in the Awatapu College Staffroom.
Our guest presenter was Tan Bee Tin speaking on the topic of Promoting learners' creative language use: Broadening possibilities within constraint.
Her talk was very interesting and included the tidbit that we can be more creative when we are given tighter rules to work around. 

Minutes and reports are below.

September 12 

Angela Bland came from Christchurch to talk to us about her work as HOD of Riccarton High School in Christchurch.
Angela does some amazing and progressive work with her students and we enjoyed hearing about this.
The talk gave us opportunities to share ideas and a lot of links were made.

Dinner at Indian Summer
We met at Indian Summer on August 5. The food, as always, was wonderful.
Mini Symposium 

We had our mini symposium on June 6 at IPC. It was a great event with many wonderful speakers.


Social Event 
We had a shared dinner on March 20 at English Language Partners Palmerston North (above Pompeii Pizzas). We heard about teaching overseas compared to teaching in New Zealand and learned about the lantern festival and the year of the sheep. Some of us then joined in the lantern festival in The Square which marked the start off our city's festival of cultures for 2015. 








Left: Our first committee meeting. 
A tea tasting at our chair's house.




2014
MANATESOL AGMWe shared our favourite resources before our AGM. Thanks to Gillian Skyrme for facilitating and Awapuni College for hosting.
MANATESOL Work in Progress Morning
Was held on Saturday 30th August at PaCE, Hokowhitu Campus.
It was interesting hearing about different pieces of research and a great opportunity to network and to discuss our own educational journeys.

Matariki 
We joined English Language Partners for Matariki celebrations on June 30. We shared dinner then watched a presentation about our refugee and migrant learners. We then learnt to sing "Pakipaki".

Pre-CLESOL Taster

On Saturday, June 21 we had a CLESOL taster and practise. Thanks to ETC for hosting us.

Flyer
Abstracts

Lantern Festival
On March 21 English Language Partners kindly hosted us for a pot-luck dinner. We socialised as the music from the festival in The Square started up. Emily and Ben talked about teaching in Asia (www.eagletw.com) then Agnes talked about the lantern festival and how it is celebrated in her part of China. We then strolled downstairs to enjoy the bands and parade of Palmerston North's Lantern Festival as part of the Festival of Cultures. 








We had a meet-and-greet potluck at our chair, Anne 
McCarthy's, house. It was a good way to start the year.












Contact:
Gwenna Finikin (secretary) 
Email
See Contacts for full contact details.












MANATESOL 


All  PDF unless otherwise marked



NEWSLETTER

MANATESOL Newsletter October 2013
MANATESOL News March 2012
MANATESOL News November 2011




REPORTS


MANATESOL Annual Report 2011
MANATESOL Chair's Report 2015
Manatesol Chair's report 2016





AGM


MANATESOL AGM 2016
MANATESOL AGM 2015

MANATESOL AGM minutes and reports 2014
MANATESOL AGM minutes and reports 2013
MANATESOL AGM minutes and reports 2012
MANATESOL AGM Minutes 2011




ACCOUNTS


2012-2013 accounts are embedded in the AGM reports.
MANATESOL Accounts 2016
MANATESOL Accounts 2015

MANATESOL Accounts 2014
MANATESOL Accounts 2011




2013
Kerstin Dofs came from Christchurch for our AGM. She taught us about self-access centres and learner autonomy.This was brilliant and gave us much food for thought.
ETC supplied the real food and it was delicious.





Kerstin Dofs










Mini-conference

The MANATESOL Mini-conference was held Saturday, October 12, 2013 at IPC.
The Keynote speaker was Alyson McGee and we had nine others also speaking.



MANATESOL Mini-conderence
Teaching in action







The second CLESOL recycling day 
This was a great success with Penny Haworth talking about perceptions of individual and collective teaching efficacy in schools with English language learners
and Hilary Smith talking about meeting the challenges of English language teaching in areas of international development.




We had a meet-and-greet potluck at Gillian's house. Too much food was eaten by all.














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