CCCC Committee on Second Language Writing
 

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CCCC 2004 L2-Writing-Related Sessions
(Courtesy of Jessie Moore Kapper, Purdue University)

Open Meeting

  • CCCC Committee on Second Language Writing Open Meeting
    9:30 and 12:15 on Saturday, March 27, 2004. All CCCC members are invited
Workshops

Featured Session

  • FSL.1 Cross-Language Relations in Composition
Special Interest Group
  • TSI.09 Does L2 Writer Mean Basic Writer?: Placement and Pedagogy for ESL Students

Concurrent Sessions

  • A.16 Writing Across Borders: Teaching ESL and Comparing Writing Pedagogies
  • B.02 Learning Our Lessons: Composition Matters in the History of Indian Residential Schools
  • B.13 Research in English as a Second Language
  • C.09 Writing in "Nonstandard" or Nonmainstream Varieties of English
  • C.33 All the World is a Classroom: Online Partnering for Revision and Team Assignments at Community Colleges and Universities Here and Abroad
  • D.09 Lessons for Learning Diversity with Writing at Home and Abroad
  • D.29 Learning to Do Graduate School: Multicultural Perspectives on Writing, Academic Enculturation, and Identity
  • E.21 Making Reading Matter: Engaging ESL and Developmental Students and Promoting Writing Proficiency
  • F.23 Second Language Writers in the Writing Center
  • H.06 In the Classroom and Beyond: Re-presenting Chinese "Bian"/Rhetorical Experiences on Their Own Terms
  • H.19 Bilingual Composition
  • K.18 Teaching Generation 1.5 in the Classroom and the Center
  • L.34 Recycling Hegemony through Popular Culture, Body Narratives, and ESL
  • M.03 New Directions in ESL/EFL Research
  • N.06 Composing Cultures: ESL Students in the Center and the Classroom
  • N.10 Writing Center Intersections with ESL Writing, Writers, and Programs
  • O.22 Literacy, Distance Learning, and EFL: Breaking Down Barriers
  • O.24 ESL and EFL in the Writing Center

Workshops

MW.6 Working with second language writers:
Demographics, Assessment, Placement, and Instruction

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24 9:00 a.m - 12:30 p.m.

    This workshop will provide an overview of four underlying issues encountered by professionals when they work with second language writers.

    Who are second language writers? Jessie Kapper, Purdue University
    How do we assess their writing? Deborah Crusan, Wright State University
    Where do we place them? Tony Silva, Purdue University
    How do we best address their needs in the classroom? Paul Kei Matsuda, University of New Hampshire

    Following brief presentations on each topic, workshop participants will enjoy HAND-ON activities and INTERACTION as they consider how these issues take shape in their own institutional contexts.

SW.11 Topics and issues in improving instruction for
Second Language Writers
SATURDAY, MARCH 27 2:00 p,m. - 5:30 p.m.

    Participants will engage in small-group discussions and activities, selecting topics that best address their individual needs. Presenters will lead discussion in small-group sessions at different tables in the workshop room.

    Following are timely topics of great importance as our ESL population continues to grow:

    Tailoring assessment to L2 writers, Ana Maria Preto-Bay, Brigham Young University
    Training writing center tutors to work with L2 writers, Carol Severino, University of Iowa and Jill Swavely, Temple University
    Addressing needs of generation 1.5 students, Diana Beckett, University of Cincinnati
    Facilitating collaborations between L1 & L2 writing instructors, Jay Jordan, Penn State University
    Addressing needs of L2 writers beyond composition courses, Michelle Cox and Christina Ortmeier-Hooper, University of New Hampshire
    Adapting curricula for L2 writers, Gail Shuck, Boise State University and Adrian Wurr, University of North Carolina, Greensboro

    For easy registration, go to http://www.ncte.org/convention/cccc2004 and scroll to Workshops MW.6 and SW.11.

    Discount for preregistration ends MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23

 

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