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North Carolina State University's First Annual ESL Symposium
for K-12 teachers, teacher
trainers, and other educators interested in ESL
Friday, May 31 and Saturday,
June 1 (half-day), 2002
Talley Student
Center, North Carolina State University
Renewal credit available for symposium attendees
We will not be able to process requests for refunds after Friday, May 17th.
We are still accepting pre-registrations for the Collier/Thomas keynote on
Sat. June 1
Pre-registration only: no on-site registration
Featured speakers include:
Drs. Virginia Collier and
Wayne Thomas: "Reform of Education Policies for
English Learners: Research Evidence from U.S. Schools." This presentation provides an
overview of Collier and Thomas' research findings to date from studies in
U.S. public schools in 23 school districts in 15 states from 1985 to the
present, including their recently completed National Study of School
Effectiveness for Language Minority Students' Long-term Academic
Achievement, funded by the U.S. Department of Education. Collier and Thomas
have collected data from urban, suburban, and rural school districts in all
regions of the U.S. The total number of linguistically and culturally
diverse student records collected to date is over 2 million, from school
years 1982-2001, with over 100 primary languages represented in the student
samples. Implications for administrative policies and classroom practice
will be integrated throughout the session.
Drs. Thomas and Collier
are internationally known for their research on long-term school
effectiveness for linguistically and culturally diverse students. Dr.
Thomas is a professor of evaluation and research methodology and Dr.
Collier is a professor of bilingual/multicultural/ESL education in the
Graduate School of Education at George Mason University. Currently, they
are researchers with the national Center for Research on Education,
Diversity, and Excellence (CREDE).
Dr.
Joanne Hershfield and Penny Simpson, directors of "Nuestra Communidad: Latinos in North
Carolina" will join us for a Q&A session after a screening of
their documentary: "an hour-long video documentary that looks at the
impact on communities in North Carolina brought about by the rapidly
increasing Spanish-speaking population in the emerging 'New South.' The
documentary focuses on personal life experiences, the dimensions of
cultural encounters, and the prospects for the future of these new
'Southerners.'"
Joanne Hershfield
teaches film studies and production at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill. She is the author of "Mexican Cinema/Mexican Women,
1940-1950" and "The Invention of Dolores del Rio." Prof.
Hershfield has also worked in film and video for twenty years and has
produced and directed a number of documentaries. She is currently producing
a documentary video about women in Japan.
Penny Simpson is a native of North Carolina and graduated from the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After postgraduate film
studies at NYU and in California, her career spans over twenty years of
professional work in video, film, and music production, in New York and in
Mexico, a country where she lived for seventeen years. Now living in
Raleigh, she currently works as a documentary filmmaker, a research
analyst, an independent film distributor (New South Productions) and
as an advocate for Latino issues. She has also worked as a teacher and a
professional translator.
Dr.
Dorothy Kauffman: “Let’s
Talk about Content.” Dr.
Kauffman will show how easily students are motivated to talk about academic
content and learn English with The Oxford Picture Dictionary for the
Content Areas. Teaching strategies to use with various curriculum
topics will be demonstrated. Participants will receive a complimentary copy
of the Dictionary and a complete lesson they can use next week in class.
Dorothy Kauffman,
(PhD. University of Maryland), author of The Oxford Picture Dictionary
for the Content Areas, is a research associate with the Center for
Applied Linguistics (CAL) in Washington D.C. A former elementary school
classroom teacher and a reading teacher, she authored a supplementary
reading series and content-based ESL literature units for elementary school
students. She also has developed a social studies curriculum and textbooks
for the Ministry of Education in Belize and completed a series of English
language arts workbooks for ESOL students in grades K-5.
Dr. Nolo Martínez: “The new immigrant's
survival and development strategy and its implications for state
policy”
In the
past decade NC’s has undergone deep renewal of the state’s
demographic and ethnic composition. The accelerated pace of labor migration
and the increase of foreign-born students in our public school system
challenges our educational system.
For many Limited English Professionals students and their families,
ESL professionals are the first and only source of information and support
to satisfy a long list of survival needs.
Although
today’s newcomers from Latin America are changing NC by their
economic presence and sociocultural practices, their voices have yet to be
heard and many times ESL teachers across the state serve as the means to
fill that vacuum. Achieving the
goal of English Proficiency and economic self-sufficiency of NC new
immigrants will require that state leaders value the importance of ESL
programs, professionals and policies.
Dr. Martinez will discuss how community development and economic
self-sufficiency of Latino families in the state is directly related to ESL
programs that connect and transform newcomers to a life long learning way
of life.
In
September 1998, Dr. Martínez was appointed as the first
Director of Hispanic/Latino Affairs to work directly in the Office of the
Governor. As Director of Hispanic/Latino Affairs, Dr.
Martínez works to assist in the coordination and development of
state and local programs that will meet the needs of the Hispanic/Latino
residents of the state. He is also responsible for staffing the work of the
Governor's Advisory Council on Hispanic/Latino Affairs.
Dr. Walter Wolfram: "Dialects in TESOL." Although dialects of American
English are ignored in most TESOL programs, the acquisition of English does
not take place in a dialect-free context. What role should dialects play in
instruction, and how might teachers and learners deal with the range of
dialects that exist in American society? This presentation examines the
role of dialects in TESOL and shows why dialect awareness should be
incorporated into a TESOL program. Video and audio illustrations of dialect
activities are offered to show how information about American English
dialects can be productively integrated into an ESOL program.
Dr
Wolfram, NCSU William C. Friday Distinguised Professor, has pioneered
research on a broad range of vernacular dialects over the past thirty
years. He currently is researching the unique variety of English spoken on
the Outer Banks of North Carolina as an endangered dialect community, while
also conducting a comparative study of the Lumbee Indian, African American,
and European American communities in Robeson County, North Carolina.
Comments:
Cathy Boatwright
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