Prof. Melinda Reichelt Keynote Speaker at 1st Purdue University Graduate Student Symposium on ESL Studies

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”. She directs the ESL writing program and teaches courses in TESOL, ESL writing, and linguistics. She has published her work in a range of journals, including the Journal of Second Language Writing, World Englishes, Composition Studies, and Modern Language Journal, and she has presented her work at conferences such as TESOL, CCCC’s, AAAL, and the Symposium on Second Language Writing. She is co-author with Tony Silva and Colleen Brice of Annotated Bibliography of Scholarship in Second Language Writing: 1993-1997 (1999), published by Ablex. She is currently editing, with Tony Cimasko, a collection of chapters on foreign language writing, tentatively titled Foreign Language Writing: Principles and Practices.