TESOL Kuwait is a non-profit organization of teachers to speakers

of other languages affiliated with the US based TESOL

International (46,000 members worldwide). We seek to improve
the teaching and learning of English and content subjects to nonnative speakers of English.
TESOL Kuwaits third conference is to be held at the Gulf University
of Science and Technology (GUST) on Friday 6, and Saturday 7
November 2015. In addition, there will be a Pre-Conference at
GUST on Thursday, 5 November 2015. The conference theme isReshaping English Teaching in an Age of Innovation.
Approximately 500 teachers from Kuwait are expected to attend
the event from government and private elementary, middle and
high schools as well as private schools, local universities and
related organizations, such as language schools
and other training establishments.
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Dudley Reynolds
Dudley Reynolds is the President-Elect (2015-16)
of the TESOL International Association and a
Teaching Professor of English at Carnegie Mellon
University in Qatar where he teaches first-year
writing. His research focuses on the development, assessment,
and teaching of second language reading and writing. He is the
author of One on One with Second Language Writers: A Guide for
Writing Tutors, Teachers, and Consultants (University of Michigan
Press, 2009) and Assessing Writing, Assessing Learning (University
of Michigan Press, 2010) as well as numerous articles and book
chapters. He is currently the Lead-PI for a Qatar National Research
Fund grant on Improving Reading Skills in the Middle School
Science Classroom. He received his PhD in Linguistics from
Indiana University where he taught in the intensive English
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program for pre-university students. He has also taught primary

school learners in Egypt and MA TESOL students at Georgia State
University and the University of Houston.