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Meeting The Needs Of Diverse Esl Classrooms: A Team Approach To The Professional Development Of Educators, Alla Zareva, Silvana Watson
Meeting The Needs Of Diverse Esl Classrooms: A Team Approach To The Professional Development Of Educators, Alla Zareva, Silvana Watson
English Faculty Publications
The focus of this chapter is threefold: 1) To report on the effectiveness of a professional development program offered to elementary school educators to work effectively with diverse ELs; 2) to present the results from a pre-professional development survey which helped identify specific aspects of working with diverse ELs in immediate need of professional development; and 3) to discuss the wider implications of our findings and recommendations for teacher preparation programs. The chapter reports on three main areas of a year-long professional development training provided to teams of in-service elementary school teachers, school administrators, and other specialists (N=60) in the …
After The Golem: Teaching Golems, Kabbalah, Exile, Imagination, And Technological Takeover., Temma F. Berg
After The Golem: Teaching Golems, Kabbalah, Exile, Imagination, And Technological Takeover., Temma F. Berg
English Faculty Publications
The golem is an elusive creature. From a religious perspective it enacts spirit entering matter, a creation story of potential salvation crossed with reprehensible arrogance. As a historical narrative, the golem story becomes a tale of Jewish powerlessness and oppression, of pogroms and ghettoization, of assimilation and exile, and sometimes, of renewal. As the subject of a course in women, gender and sexuality studies, the golem narrative can be seen as a relentless questioning of otherness and identity and as a revelation of the complex intersectionalities of gender, class, sexuality, race, disability, and ethnicity. As a philosophical motif, the ambiguous …
Providing Feedback On The Lexical Use Of Esp Students’ Academic Presentations: Teacher Training Considerations, Alla Zareva
Providing Feedback On The Lexical Use Of Esp Students’ Academic Presentations: Teacher Training Considerations, Alla Zareva
English Faculty Publications
This chapter offers a description of a methodology for providing training to pre-service English for Academic and Specific Purposes (EAP/ESP) teacher trainees in giving evidence-based feedback on the lexical composition of ESP students’ academic presentations. It also discusses a study based on the analysis of the mock feedback provided by the EAP/ESP teacher trainees (n=20) to ESP students’ presentations with a focus on the effects of training. The results revealed that the training was successful in areas such as raising the teacher trainees’ awareness of how to evaluate various lexical categories in an ESP presentation, how to incorporate their evaluation …
Editorial: New Voices And . . . Familiar Voices, Jeff Sommers
Editorial: New Voices And . . . Familiar Voices, Jeff Sommers
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Editorial: The Complexities Of “College Success”, Jeff Sommers
Editorial: The Complexities Of “College Success”, Jeff Sommers
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Editorial: A Horse Is A Horse, Of Course?, Jeff Sommers
Editorial: A Horse Is A Horse, Of Course?, Jeff Sommers
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Editorial: A Middle Ground, Jeff Sommers
Editorial: A Middle Ground, Jeff Sommers
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Editorial: Understanding Backwards, Looking Forwards, Jeff Sommers
Editorial: Understanding Backwards, Looking Forwards, Jeff Sommers
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Editorial: Acronyms Repurposed, Jeff Sommers
Editorial: Acronyms Repurposed, Jeff Sommers
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Integrating Interactive Technology To Promote Learner Autonomy: Challenges And Rewards, Marie A. Hulme, Jaya Kannan, María Lizano-Dimare, Pilar Munday
Integrating Interactive Technology To Promote Learner Autonomy: Challenges And Rewards, Marie A. Hulme, Jaya Kannan, María Lizano-Dimare, Pilar Munday
English Faculty Publications
In an increasingly complex and interconnected world, students and faculty must understand and harness the power of technology to synthesize, analyze, and communicate ideas and information. A multi-modal, multidisciplinary approach of teaching and learning is critical. This presentation will examine how to best leverage the technological strengths of 21st century learners in an interdisciplinary networked community, utilizing on-line tools such as Twitter and e-portfolios. This will be anchored within a context of a larger discussion of current education theories, including cognitive, social constructivism, and connectivism. Four presenters will address recent research on the impact of technology tools on teaching and …
Editorial: The Long View, Jeff Sommers
Editorial: The Long View, Jeff Sommers
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Editorial: The Challenge That Won’T Go Away, Jeff Sommers
Editorial: The Challenge That Won’T Go Away, Jeff Sommers
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Strategy Use Of Russian Pre-Service Tefl University Students: Using A Strategy Inventory For Program Effectiveness Evaluation, Alla Zareva, Anna Fomina
Strategy Use Of Russian Pre-Service Tefl University Students: Using A Strategy Inventory For Program Effectiveness Evaluation, Alla Zareva, Anna Fomina
English Faculty Publications
The focus of the present study is on identifying categories of learning strategies that are mostly used by Russian university students in an English Linguistics Program with a TEFL concentration. The more specific goal of the study is to offer a model of evaluation of the effectiveness of TEFL-oriented programs in terms of the language learning strategies their students use and recognize as pedagogically applicable to their EFL environment. To this end, two groups of students were compared on their self-reported frequency of strategy use -- 1st year students (n = 23), who had just entered the program, and 4th …
Editorial: On Genuine Dialogue, Jeff Sommers
Editorial: On Genuine Dialogue, Jeff Sommers
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Bringing "Abnormal" Discourse Into The Classroom, Virginia M. Tucker
Bringing "Abnormal" Discourse Into The Classroom, Virginia M. Tucker
English Faculty Publications
Assuming student discourse is prone to error, teachers have long implemented rules that ensure "safe" discourse, particularly in composition instruction. My fifth grade teacher taught me to place a comma in a sentence whenever I take a breath rather than teaching me the language of comma rules. To my dismay, many of my first-year composition students raise their hands in agreement that they too have been taught to place a comma wherever their lungs suggest. These students learn to call independent clauses a complete sentence, and to them an ellipsis is merely “dot, dot, dot.” In an attempt to reach …
Integrating The Humanities And Sciences: The Human Journey: Sacred Heart University's Common Core, Michelle Loris Ph.D., Nicole Cauvin, Kathryn Lafontana
Integrating The Humanities And Sciences: The Human Journey: Sacred Heart University's Common Core, Michelle Loris Ph.D., Nicole Cauvin, Kathryn Lafontana
English Faculty Publications
One way to respond to the crisis in the humanities is to integrate learning for our students. In fact one of higher education's greatest challenges today is for faculty to develop ways to integrate knowledge and learning across the disiciplines. This essay describes a common core curriculum, THE HUMAN JOURNEY, which engages students in an integrated, common, and coherent understanding of the humanities,arts, and sciences, and the Catholic intellectual tradition framed by four enduring questions of human meaning and value. THE HUMAN JOURNEY is a five course sequence including literature, history, the social and natural sciences, and religious studies and …
Training Training-Room Skills, Alan Waters, Maria Luz C. Vilches
Training Training-Room Skills, Alan Waters, Maria Luz C. Vilches
English Faculty Publications
A process-oriented approach to training teachers in ELT teaching methods is nowadays commonplace. To operate such an approach, the teacher trainer needs to be able to handle the skills involved in, inter alia, introducing a teacher training session, conducting awareness-raising, providing input, setting up, monitoring and rounding off small-group activities, feeding back on participants’ ideas and concluding the session. In other words, just as the ELT teacher needs to master a repertoire of classroom skills for handling ELT activities, so the teacher trainer needs to acquire a knowledge of the training-room skills involved in such teacher training procedures Both classroom …
On Becoming A Greek Poet, Charles Hartman
On Becoming A Greek Poet, Charles Hartman
English Faculty Publications
Presents the essay `On Becoming a Greek Poet,' which deals with experiences in teaching poetry in Athens, Greece.
Teaching Literature In The 1990'S: Meeting The Challenge, Nancy Topping Bazin
Teaching Literature In The 1990'S: Meeting The Challenge, Nancy Topping Bazin
English Faculty Publications
English teachers are currently beset by a variety of political forces vying for their attention. Education has become big news again for the first time since October 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union inaugurated the Space Age by launching Sputnik, the first man-made satellite. In 1957, astonished at the Russians' success, Americans panicked and decided that their math science, and foreign language training was inadequate. Recent survey~ showing the superiority of Japanese and European students over American students have provoked serious concern about the quality of education going on in American public schools and in our colleges and universities. The …
Language Studies- Where To Begin, Ralph L. Corrigan
Language Studies- Where To Begin, Ralph L. Corrigan
English Faculty Publications
The question in the minds of many teachers of language today is: where do I begin?