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 [...]
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 [...]
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”.
Prof. Douglas W. Coleman presented a paper, “There are three kinds of abstractions: Abstractions, damned abstractions, and damned lying abstractions” at the Annual Conference of the Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States, June 10-14, 2008, hosted by Laval University, Quebec City, Quebec.
Photo (L-R): Brooke Musser, Natalie Dielman, Melinda Reichelt
Prof. Melinda Reichelt, UT Department of English Language and Literature, was Main Keynote Speaker at the 2008 Symposium on Second Language Writing (Conference Theme: Foreign Language Writing Instruction: Principles and Practices), hosted by Purdue University, W. Lafayette, Indiana, June 5-7, 2008. In addition to Prof. Melinda Reichelt’s [...]
Jing (Adam) Xu, who graduated from the Master of Arts in English – ESL program in Spring 2006, has recently been a co-author of two published papers:
Mislevy, R., Chapelle, C. A., Chung, Y.-R., & Xu, J. (2008). Options for adaptivity in computer-assisted language learning and assessment. In C. A. [...]
In addition to Prof. Melinda Reichelt’s keynote address (see the earlier post), UT will be represented at the Symposium on Second Language Writing 2008 hosted by Purdue University, June 5-7 by two of its graduate students. Brooke Musser will present on “The Writing Center as a Defense Against Unintentional Plagiarism” and Natalie Dielman [...]
The Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages organization has announced that just off press are a number of new books from TESOL, including CALL Environments: Research, Practice, and Critical Issues (Second Edition, 2007) [click the link for details], edited by Joy Egbert and Elizabeth [...]
Prof. Melinda Reichelt, UT Department of English Language and Literature, will be Main Keynote Speaker at the 2008 Symposium on Second Language Writing (Conference Theme: Foreign Language Writing Instruction: Principles and Practices), hosted by Purdue University, W. Lafayette, Indiana, June 5-7, 2008.