The ESL Speaker Series
Mark your calendars now for the ESL Professional Development
Workshop and Speaker Series! This series of events will make its
debut in the fall of 2008 and occur approximately monthly
throughout the academic year. The ESL Speaker Series is intended for graduate
students, undergraduates, or anyone considering a career
in English as a second language. Combining featured speakers and
hands-on workshops, this series addresses such topics as
on-going research, publishing, creating a CV, succeeding in job search, and issues for ESL
teachers whose first language is not English. Participation is
free and open to the public.
Are you interested in gaining professional development
experience and making important contacts? Sign up to
volunteering at one of the workshops! You can help by escorting
or introducing guests, participating in set-up and clean-up, or distributing brochures. Click
here to send an email indicating the date for which you
would like to volunteer.
2009-2010 organizers are Shih-Yu Chang, Mira Bekar, Kinga Kacso
Click on the presenter's name to download the presentation handout.
2009-2010 CALENDAR OF PRESENTATIONS
| Paul Matsuda | World Englishes and the Teaching of
Writing 1:00p.m.- 2:00 p.m., September 18 @ B012, MSEE building |
| 2008-2009 | PRESENTATIONS |
| Karen Mallet | Advocacy among English language professionals: Theorizing, conceptualizing, and leveraging power |
| Cris Tardy | Demystifying the publication process |
| Luciana de Oliveira | Nonnative English speakers in TESOL: Present and future |
| Nancy Kauper | Developing an assessment of face-to-face conversation skills for the OEPP: My big fat dissertation project |
| John Bitchener | Accessing knowledge of what is required in the writing of thesis/dissertation part-genres |