If you are in the MA in English with concentration in ESL, you need three options courses, which you need to discuss with your adviser. The attached PDF contains a list of possible courses for Spring 2010. (This list includes required courses offered in Spring 2010 as well.) See the PDF file: Spr2010Courses.
The 2009 Graduate School Guide to Preparing Theses and Dissertations is available at the following link:
While the English Department Newsletter was on hiatus, news about the activities of the students and faculty of the UT Master’s Programs in teaching English as a second language was presented here. Now that the department has an on-line newsletter, this information will be presented there, along with news about other programs in the department:
Advising information and general information about the Master’s Programs in teaching ESL will continue to appear here. See the right sidebar or use the handy Search field to find what you are looking for.
The English Department’s free Basic ESL Tutorial, offered as a community service to adults in the Toledo area, will restart September 7, 2009. This non-credit class is for adults at the beginning and low-intermediate levels. For more information, or to get a full-sized version of the poster above, see the Basic ESL Tutorial link in this website’s right sidebar.
In LING 4980/5980: Sim-Gaming for Language Learning, students will learn how simulation and simulation-gaming can be used to make language learning not only engaging, but exciting, and directly relevant to real-world situations.
The course will cover not only sim-game design and use, but will also show how to select and adapt existing sim-games, including ones designed for purposes other than language learning (such as board-game style role plays, computer adventure games, and virtual environments such as Second Life). Simulation-games not only motivate students more than traditional instruction, they allow participants to actually communicate in the language they are learning. With sim-gaming, people learn how to communicate by communicating, not by hearing someone explain about it. (more…)
Fatima Esseili and Veronica Jayne, both graduates of our Master’s in English — Concentration in ESL and now doctoral students at Purdue, were involved in the 1st Purdue University Graduate Student Symposium on ESL Studies, Fatima, as one of the organizers, Veronica, as a presenter (“Making a Book with Elementary School Writers: Process, product and problems”). The symposium was held April 4, 2009 at Purdue University West Lafayette, Indiana. Here Fatima and Veronica are shown with Prof. Melinda Reichelt of UT.
Prof. Melinda Reichelt was keynote speaker at the 1st Purdue University Graduate Student Symposium on ESL Studies was held Saturday, April 4th at Purdue University. She spoke on “Ten Things I’ve Learned as an ESL Writing Program Administrator”. (more…)
Prof. Melinda Reichelt reports that on Friday, March 20, a workshop hosted at UT entitled “Coding Qualitative Data in Applied Linguistics” took place. Eight MA-ESL students participated in the event (Doria, Hill, Liao, Myers,Vimuttipong, Wherley, Wolfel, and Zhou). The workshop was facilitated by UT English Professor Melinda Reichelt and Colleen Brice, Associate Professor of English, Grand Valley State University. (more…)
The 2009 Conference of the Ohio University Linguistics Department (COULD) will be held Saturday, May 9, all day, on the OU campus. According to the organizers,
This conference is an opportunity for research projects to be presented by all interested professionals and students of Ohio University and other academic institutions across the state. Submissions are encouraged from a range of related disciplines, including, but not limited to, Linguistics, TESOL, Language Learning, Hearing and Speech Sciences, and Psychology
Proposals are due April 1, 2009. For details, see the attached PDF: could-2009.pdf. This is a fine venue at which to make your first professional presentation and/or to get to know other graduate students from around the state.
The English Department’s free Basic ESL Tutorial, offered as a community service to adults in the Toledo area, will restart in the first week of February. This non-credit class is for adults at the beginning and low-intermediate levels. For more information, or to get a full-sized version of the poster above, see the Basic ESL Tutorial link in this website’s right sidebar.
