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2008 Summer Workshop Schedule

1-credit option (TESL.560.N02): Friday-Sunday, July 11 - July 12, 9:00am to 5:30pm.

3-credit option (TESL.560.N01): Friday-Sunday, July 11 - July 13, 9:00am to 5:30pm; debriefing & presentation sessions on Friday, July 25 & Sunday, July 27.

 

FRIDAY
SATURDAY
SUNDAY
  9:00-9:30  

Breakfast

  9:00-9:30   Breakfast   9:00-9:30   Breakfast
  9:30-9:50  

Opening and introductions

  9:30-12:00   Designing a writing class for multilingual writers: Course design, writing projects, and lesson plans   9:30-12:00   Classroom writing assessment: Setting, communicating, and applying goals and expectations consistently
  9:50-10:50  

Discussion: Institutional contexts, student characteristics and pedagogical issues

 
 
  11:00-12:00  

Second language writers: Characteristics and variations

 
  12:00-12:45  

Lunch

  12:00-12:45   Lunch   12:00-12:45   Lunch
  12:45-1:45  

Second language texts: Characteristics and variations

  12:45-4:30   Responding to multilingual student writing: Peer and teacher feedback   12:45-1:45   Textual Borrowing
  1:55-2:55  

Approaches to second language writing instruction

          1:55-2:55   When is an error not an error? Strategies for negotiating language differences
  3:05-4:35  

Genre: Teaching words, sentences, discourse and contexts together

          3:00-3:45   Discussion
  4:35-5:00  

Discussion

  4:30-5:00   Discussion   4:45-4:00   Closing reception
  5:15-6:25  

Procedures for participants doing the 3-credit workshop option

               

 

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TESOL Program
Language and Foreign Studies
American University
Washington, DC 20016-8045

Tel: 202.885.2582
Fax: 202.885.1356
Email: tesol@american.edu
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