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Dr. Ken Beatty, Anaheim University TESOL Professor, has worked in Asia, the Middle East, and North and South America, lecturing on language teaching and computer-assisted language learning from the primary through university levels. He’s author/co-author of 148 readers and textbooks and has given 500+ teacher-training sessions and conference presentations in 35 countries.He is Series Consultant for Pearson’s StartUp.

Language Teaching: New Models, Tools, and Attitudes

Times of stress in society are known to produce political, pedagogical, and technological innovations. Sometimes, these innovations are temporary solutions that disappear with the problems that inspired them. Other times, innovations become part of the fabric of everyday life. This presentation examines new models, tools, and attitudes around teaching and learning languages: Models include completely online and hybrid classroom models; tools include social media platforms that accommodate different forms of interaction and learning opportunities, and; attitudes rethink such ideas as teacher, student, and parent roles, strategies for shifting responsibility for learning to students, and a re-thinking of assessment. Overarching concerns include teachers’ and administrators’ engagement with digital technologies that make new learning possible.

Christine Feak is a faculty member at the English Language Institute, University of Michigan, where she is the lead lecturer for dissertation writing and writing for publication courses. She is co-author (with John Swales) of Academic Writing for Graduate Students and the English in Today’s Research World book series focused on the writing of research genres and subgenres. In addition to teaching and textbook writing, she also serves as co-editor of ESP, an international peer-reviewed journal focusing on topics relevant to the teaching and learning of discourse for specific communities. Her current research interests include academic writing in education, medicine, and business; writing for publication needs of scholars in developing countries; and the development of effective academic writing curricula.

Responding to the changing landscape of graduate student writing

The academic writing challenges faced by the new generation of graduate students are becoming more complex. It is no longer enough to master traditional research genres such as conference proposals, literature reviews, and journal articles; graduate students today must also write to share their research and expertise with non-expert audiences within and outside the academy and to navigate new rules of research engagement. To be successful graduate students need a more enhanced set of knowledge brokering skills and a broader genre repertoire that will allow them to transport their research and expertise across many boundaries. This talk will explore the changing landscape of graduate student writing and ways that EAP writing programs can respond through new course offerings that allow students to develop writing agility.

(*) Please contact ARTESOL office with the names of the five attendees.

Registration Fees

Individual Non-member by May 31 $30,00 USD Individual Non-member June 1-2 $31,00 USD Groups of 5 (28 each) by May 31 $28,00 USD

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