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SLWIS has a number of exciting special sessions planned for
TESOL 2011 in New Orleans. Please join us for these exciting special
sessions, as well as many other great SLWIS sessions, in New
Orleans.
ACADEMIC SESSION
Recurring Issues in ESL Writing Assessment and Student Placement
Saturday, March 19, 10:00 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.
Morial Convention Center Room 222
Tony Silva (Purdue University), Alister Cumming (University of
Toronto), Danielle Zawodny-Wetzel (Carnegie Mellon, SLWIS Chair), and
Deborah Crusan (Wright State University)
In this session, presenters will share effective approaches for
L2 writing assessment and student placement, especially as they impact
writing curricula in various contexts. Assessment experts (Alister and
Deborah) explore challenges and possible future directions for
assessment and placement, while ESL writing program directors (Tony and
Danielle) explain their local responses to standardized
assessments.
INTERSECTION WITH SECONDARY SCHOOLS INTEREST SECTION (SSIS)
Negotiating ESL Writing Instruction and Standards on the Secondary Level
Friday, March 18, 3:00 – 4:45 p.m.
Morial Convention Center Room 222
Youngjoo Yi (Georgia State University), Luciana de Oliveira
(Purdue University), Amanda Kibler (University of Virginia), and Lynore
Carnuccio (ESL-ETC Educational Consultants).
This session will address challenges that mandated standardized
testing and curricular demands may place on the teaching of ESL writing
in the secondary school context. Presenters will discuss such
challenges including suggestions for different effective instructional
models, effects on student writing, and possible impact on the writing
curriculum.
INTERSECTION WITH NONNATIVE-ENGLISH-SPEAKING TEACHERS INTEREST SECTION (NNESTIS)
Issues for NNESTs in EFL Writing Teacher Preparation
Saturday, March 19, 1:00 – 2:45 p.m.
Morial Convention Center Room 222
Icy Lee (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Lisya Seloni
(Indiana University of Pennsylvania), Claus Gnutzmann (University of
Braunschweig), Ditlev Larsen (Winona State University), and Paul Matsuda
(Arizona State University)
In this session, the presenters discuss how writing teacher
education is both underdeveloped and underresearched in EFL contexts.
Topics include challenges faced by nonnative-English-speaking teachers
in preparing EFL writing teachers and issues in such teachers’
professional development. More details on this session can be found at http://nnestslwis2010.pbworks.com/.
Ditlev Larsen, SLWIS Chair-Elect, DLarson@winona.edu | 
