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We Don’T Want To Go Around Unwritten: Understanding Our Students Through Meaningful And Culturally Welcoming Writing Assignments, Susan Adams
Susan Adams
Workshop presented at the Indiana Teachers of Writing Annual Conference, October 2009.
We Don’T Want To Go Around Unwritten: Understanding Our Students Through Meaningful And Culturally Welcoming Writing Assignments, Susan Adams
Susan Adams
Presentation at the National Writing Project Urban Sites Network Conference, Louisville, KY, April 2009.
First, You Write!, Susan Adams
First, You Write!, Susan Adams
Susan Adams
Workshop presented at the Indiana Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (INTESOL) Annual Conference, November 2008.
Presenting Results Of Esl Teachers Writing Workshop, Susan Adams, Mary Nicolini
Presenting Results Of Esl Teachers Writing Workshop, Susan Adams, Mary Nicolini
Susan Adams
Presentation at the National Writing Project Conference, San Antonio, TX, November 2008.
Tears, Fears, And The Dreaded Five-Paragraph Essay: Encouraging Your Students To Write In English, Susan Adams
Tears, Fears, And The Dreaded Five-Paragraph Essay: Encouraging Your Students To Write In English, Susan Adams
Susan Adams
Presentation at the TESOL Regional Conference, May 2008.
Fostering Writing Development Of Secondary English Language Learners: Overcoming Fears, Tears, And The Dreaded 5-Paragraph Essay, Susan Adams
Susan Adams
Presentation at the Indiana Teachers of Writing Annual Conference, October 2007.
Tears, Fears, And The Dreaded 5-Paragraph Essay: Encouraging Your Students To Write In English, Susan Adams
Tears, Fears, And The Dreaded 5-Paragraph Essay: Encouraging Your Students To Write In English, Susan Adams
Susan Adams
Presentation at the Indiana Department of Education ESL K-12 Conference, 2006.
The Process Of The Assessment Of Writing Performance : The Rater's Perspective, Tom Lumley
The Process Of The Assessment Of Writing Performance : The Rater's Perspective, Tom Lumley
Dr Tom Lumley
This study investigates the process of rating texts written by adult ESL learners. Four experienced raters provided think-aloud protocols describing the rating process for a set of 24 texts. The think-aloud data allowed analysis of the sequence of rating, raters' interpretations of the scoring categories, and difficulties raters faced. The study reveals the complexity of the rating process, whereby raters struggle to resolve a tension between the wordings (or rules) of the rating scale and their complex, initial, intuitive impression of the text. Rating requires training to provide reliable measurement. The study also demonstrates that caution is needed in interpreting …