CALL FOR PAPERS:
"SEPARATE, EQUAL, BOTH OR NEITHER? ESL/EFL STUDENTS IN
COLLEGE COMPOSITION"
NEMLA: Toronto, 12-13 April 2002
As our writing and literature classrooms grow ever more diverse, we need to
accommodate ESL/EFL students whose English-language skills may not meet the
demands of college-level composition.
This panel will feature discussion of pedagogical strategies that speakers
have found useful when working with ESL/EFL students in writing courses. I
invite work that discusses specific texts, writing assignments, discussion
management and/or instructional technologies that have proven successful.
Theory is most welcome as well, but papers should focus chiefly on what
works. The session audience (and participants) should leave with a stronger,
more specific sense of how to aid their own international students.
Some topics might include--but are by no means limited to:
--In what ways (if any) do you train ESL/EFL students differently from their
native-language counterparts in writing classes?
--How do you sharpen ESL/EFL students' critical skills (particularly while
maximizing fluency in English)?
--How can you enhance ESL/EFL students' reading comprehension?
--To what extent (if any) do you overtly address grammar problems? Through
what methods? exercises? technologies?
--How do you help students, regardless of linguistic background, to cultivate
their own "voice"?
Please send one-page abstracts (or inquiries) BY SEPTEMBER 15 to:
Michael Schiavi, Coordinator of ESL
New York Institute of Technology
Dept. of English, Room--501A
1855 Broadway
New York, NY 10023
Mschiavi@nyit.edu or MRSchiavi@aol.com
(212) 261-1581
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