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Subject: [NIFL-ESL:5522] TESOL Electronic Village ONLINE
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Electronic Village Online
The TESOL CALL Interest Section is proud to announce
its new online
sessions, made possible by an Interest Section Special
Project Grant.
If you
can't come to the conference, now the conference can
come to
you--before and
during the TESOL Convention (with TESOL DISCUSS), and
after TESOL (with
TESOL FOLLOW-UP)!
TESOL DISCUSS: February 12 -
March 9
These sessions follow along with the TESOL conference.
Some of the
discussions are held in conjunction with Interest
Section Academic
Sessions
or Strands. TESOL DISCUSS starts two weeks before the
conference and
continues for one week after the conference.
The following sessions will be offered
* Professional development in Adult ESL -- Adult
Education
Interest
Section (AEIS)--Moderator: Tommy B. McDonell
* Teaching Academic English to Engineering
Students --English for
Specific Purposes Interest Section
(ESP)--Moderator: Yuefang
Cheng
* Business Writing -- English for Specific
Purposes Interest
Section
(ESP)--Moderator: Laurel Reinking
* Native Speaking Teachers versus Non native
Speaking Teachers
Abroad --
Non Native English Speaking Teachers (NNEST)
with English as a
Foreign
Language (EFL) Interest Section--Moderator:
JoAnn Miller
* Stress and Intonation -- Speech/Pronunciation
(SPR) Interest
Section--Moderator: Sandra Browne
* Academic Assistance for ESL Writers --
TEIS-HEIS Intersection
Moderator-- Lynne Diaz-Rico
TESOL FOLLOW-UP: March 7 - 31
This discussion forum will go online immediately
following TESOL 2001
and
features the following sessions:
* International students and NNE master's students
in MA-TESOL
programs
in the U.S.--co-sponsored by the TEIS and the
NNNEST
Caucus--Moderator: Elza M. Major
* Academic Assistance for ESL Writers --
TEIS-HEIS Intersection
Moderator-- Lynne Diaz-Rico
* Writing for Multimedia -- CALL-IS
Moderator -- Marianne Phinney
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To self-register for these online sessions, visit
http://www.blackboard.com
between February 1 and March 6. Enter "EV2001" on the
lefthand side, in
the
slot labeled "Find a course" and click "Go". Then
select the course(s)
that
you wish to participate in, click "Enroll in Course"
and fill in the
requested information. Type "showme" (one word, no
caps) as the access
code.
The EV Online Team
* Christine Bauer-Ramazani
(cbauer-ramazani@smcvt.edu)
* Susan Gaer (sgaer@yahoo.com).
* Thomas Robb (trobb@cc.kyoto-su.ac.jp)
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TESOL DISCUSS sessions:
Professional development in Adult
ESL
In this TESOL Discuss session all facets of
professional development in
the
adult education arena will be discussed. Bulletin
board discussions and
chat
groups will discuss such issues as certification
process, professional
development models including peer coaching, workshop
and team teaching,
and
online training. Participants from the academic
session will be invited
to
post summaries of their topics along with an online
discussion that
will
follow the academic session.
You do not need to be a computer expert to participate
in this session
as a
moderator will be online to help you. You only need to
be online with
an
interest in professional development.
Teaching Academic English to
Engineering Students
This group will begin with a brief discussion of H.G.
Widdowson's
communicative theory and its application to the
teaching of academic
English. The group will then read and discuss the text
"Power
Engineering"
and review and discuss a lesson plan for it.
NS Teachers vs NNS Teachers
Abroad
Many non-native English-speaking teachers (NNESTs)
throughout the world
find
themselves in positions of inferiority and suffer
discrimination. Even
if
they are equally prepared as a native English speaking
teacher (NEST),
they
are the last hired and the first fired and they
systematically receive
lower
salaries
In order to give interested teachers internationally
the opportunity to
take
part in this discussion, we propose to have a TESOL
DISCUSS session in
which
interested professionals from either the EFL-IS
community or the NNEST
Caucus community will have an opportunity to
communicate with the
speakers
and each other about the topics raised. We would post
summaries from
the
speakers at the beginning of the session and invite
them to participate
in
the discussion.
Business Writing
This session will be for instructors not specifically
knowledgeable in
the
content area working with an ESP writer who might not
even be familiar
with
the genre needed to effectively communicate her
message. In her book,
Text,
Role, and Context: Developing Academic Literacies,
Cambridge University
Press, 1997, Ann M. Johns argues that "we can prepare
students for
approaching challenging academic texts and tasks by
asking them to
review
what they already know [about genres] and to assess
current rhetorical
situations in light of that knowledge" (p. 20), and
that "practitioners
[can] use 'homely' discourses to introduce students to
concepts of
genres
and to the social forces that influence situated
texts" (p. 38).
Facilitators will discuss the question:"What is your
own experience in
teaching new genres to your students, genres with
which you, yourself,
might
not be familiar? "
Stress and Intonation
The SPRIS (Speech and Pronunciation IS) will address
the issue of AE
word
stress and intonation in both their STRAND sessions at
TESOL and at the
ACADEMIC SESSION. Pronunciation experts will discuss
the problems
facing
teachers in in teaching NNSs to produce intelligible
AE pronunciation.
For more information visit the SPRIS e-list web site
at www.tesol.org.
TESOL FOLLOW-UP sessions
International students and NNE master's students in
MA-TESOL programs
in the
U.S.
This online discussion forum is co-sponsored by the
TEIS and the NNNEST
Caucus and will go online immediately following TESOL
2001. Initial
topics
posed for discussion may include some of the
following: a) impact of
differing levels of linguistic proficiency and
cross-cultural
experience of
NNES and NES students in TESOL graduate programs; b)
adjusting
practicum
requirements to meet diverse needs of NNES and NES
teacher candidates;
c)
assessing diversity of curricular and pedagogical
contexts and its
impact on
ESL/EFL methods courses; d) promoting online exchange
among teacher
educators whose programs have made adjustments to meet
needs of NNES
graduate students and educators from programs seeking
to make such
adjustments; e) soliciting reflections and comments
from experienced
and
novice NNES teachers, as well as current graduate
students in master's
programs in the U.S.
Academic Assistance for ESL
Writers
In this course, we will discuss the various
theoretical, pedagogical
and
educational policy perspectives that have been
employed by educators at
the
university level to develop the writing skills and
enhance the academic
performance of English language learners. Participants
will share
challenges
and successes, and analyze/reflect on the key issues
and concepts that
have
affected curricular/instructional decision-making in
the attempt to
address
the discourse needs of English learners. This forum
explores ways in
which
supportive learning environments for EFL and
non-traditional ESL
students in
higher education can assist them in improving their
written
composition.
Objectives:
1. Participants will use course documents to
educate
themselves on the key issues raised in the academic
support of English
language learners' writing
2. Participants will use a threaded discussion
board to share
anecdotes, ideas, and pool ideas pertaining to their
profession
practices;
3. Participants will volunteer articles, essays,
or samples
of student writing to enhance the pool of professional
documents
available
at this site.
Writing for Multimedia
This session seeks to bring together CALL developers,
materials
writers,
teachers, and publishers to share experiences and
discuss the
challenges of
writing effective multimedia programs for CD-ROM and
the Web. Suggested
topics include the nature of interactivity, multimedia
authoring
options,
and working effectively as part of a development team.
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Susan Gaer, Santa Ana College, School of Continuing Education
2900 W Edinger Ave
Santa Ana, CA 92704
(714)564-5016
Fax: (714)434-7920
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