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| Leadership Updates |
| LETTER FROM THE CHAIR |
| Judy Dillon, ELS Language Centers, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA |
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| LETTER FROM THE EDITORS |
| Krista Bittenbender Royal, University of S. Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA & Christina Quartararo, St. John's University, Queens, New York, USA |
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| Articles |
| CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING: A KEY ELEMENT IN SUCCESSFUL LANGUAGE LEARNING |
| Douglas Magrath, Seminole State College, Oviedo, Florida, USA |
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Cultural understanding is important for educators. Classrooms reflect great diversity with students from a wealth of backgrounds and experiences. This fact presents challenges and opportunities to teachers and administrators. Sociolinguistic competence has been added to communicative competence as a key element in successful language learning. Read More |
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| GUIDING STUDENTS BEYOND THE TEXT: CONNECTING READING AND WRITING |
| Karen Fox, University of California Irvine - Extension, California, USA, Rosemary Hiruma & Barbara Jonckheere, California State University, Long Beach, California, USA |
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Current academic assessment requires students to analyze and respond in writing to a variety of texts, sometimes quantitative and sometimes issues-based. This article explains a series of useful activities integrating careful reading of texts with a variety of academic writing tasks and provides ready-to-use guidelines. Read More |
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| AN ELECTIVE COURSE TO HELP STUDENTS PREPARE FOR TRANSITION FROM IEP TO MAINSTREAM CLASSES |
| Heather Torrie, Purdue University Calumet, Indiana, USA |
Designing new elective courses can be a fun challenge. How about an elective to prepare students for transition into their mainstream classes? This article outlines how one IEP implemented a lecture series course involving university faculty, staff, and domestic students as guests in an ESL class.
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| ONE IEP STUDENT'S EXPERIENCE WITH ENGLISH-ONLY |
| Alan Broomhead, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
This article describes the success of one IEP student with English-only in the classroom and analyzes the factors contributing to her success. It then questions whether all IEP students are similarly prepared for English-only, and suggests that negotiation of a classroom language policy might be appropriate for many.
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| TEACHING TIP: EXTEMPORANEOUS LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT |
| Emily LaRue, The Language Company, Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA |
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Looking for an easy way to assess speaking during group activities? Here’s a tip for you! Read More |
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| MEET THE MEMBER |
| Ilka Kostka, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
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Welcome to our "Meet the Member” feature. In each issue, we'll spotlight
a member or two of our interest section and discuss their interests. If
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