The Ohio TESOL Conference will be held at the Greater Columbus Convention Center on November 14-15, 2014. My colleagues in the ESL Composition program at OSU Ivan Stefano, Jeremy Carmark and I will present our project “Entering academic conversations: Poster presentation as a tool to facilitate undergraduate ESL students’ writing development” at 2:30-3:20pm on November 14. This is a pilot project of the ESL Poster Research Forum that we did in Spring semester of 2014, modeling the OSU Denman Undergraduate Research Forum. We are hoping to expand this forum to attract more excellent international undergraduate students and bigger audiences university wide in Fall semester. You can register and view the conference schedule here.
Second Language Writing
TESOL Visual Seminar
TESOL International Association offers a series of online courses and seminars; see a list of upcoming seminars. On July 16, 2014 from 10:30-12pm EST, I will take the visual seminar led by Dr. Dana Ferris, a leading scholar of second language writing, on Providing Enlightened and Effective Corrective Feedback on Language Issues in Student Writing. This seminar is free to TESOL members and at a cost of $45 for nonmembers.
TESOL Academy 2014
The Ohio State University will host TESOL Academy 2014 organized by TESOL International Association on June 20-21, 2014 . I will assist the registration and participate in the workshop “The Warps and Woof of Writing: More than Text Alone Empowers Student Writers” led by Judith B. O’Loughlin. This workshop will analyze the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) expectations for K-12 students (e.g., English Language Arts Standards), demonstrate how to use multimodal resources to facilitate student writing, and create formative assessment tools.
The 8th Intercultural Rhetoric and Discourse Conference
I will attend the 8th Intercultural Rhetoric and Discourse Conference on June 6-7, 2014 at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis to present a paper titled “Chinese students learning to write synthesis in English: An intercultural rhetoric perspective” as part of the preliminary analysis of my dissertation.