Concurrent Sessions

 

 

Time

 

SPECIAL SESSION ON Bilingual Learning

 

RESEARCH AND METHODOLOGY

SECONDARY, COLLEGE, ADULT

 

COLLEGE, ADULT

a

9:45-10:25

The Role of Syntax in Early Reading: a study of bilingual readers

 

Profs. R. Otheguy and G. Martohardjono

Malgosia Szupica-Pyrzanowski  and Erika Troseth      

 

English in Language Policy: The case of Sweden

 

Francis M. Hult

 

 

Why CALLA Works

 

Alison Friedson

 

 

PANEL: Focus on Form in the ESL Learner

 

 

 

 

Miriam Eisenstein Ebsworth, Frank Tang, and Larry Selinker

 

b

10:30-11:10

Supporting Language Skills in Immigrant Pre-Schoolers: An Intervention Study

 

 Profs. R.Otheguy and G. Martohardjono

Silvia Rivero and Eulalia Canals

 

Natural Method of Learning Languages

 

Natalie V. Hanuska and Claudette A. Maier

Shi Saimdang, Outstanding Korean Woman in the 16th Century: Learning English and History Content

 

Neva Small, Chao-Ching Cheng, Ji Kyung Kong and Kaori Sugiura

 

11:15-12:45

 

 

 

 Little Theatre: Plenary, Ofelia Garcia. The Other Languages in TESOL

 

12:45-2:10

Lunch

 

 

 

 

SPECIAL SESSION ON  BILINGUAL  LEARNING

 

RESEARCH

 

ELEMENTARY, SECONDARY, COLLEGE

 

COLLEGE

c

2:15-2:55

Using Data to Design Performance-Based ESL and Native Language Arts Programs (Elementary and High School)

 

Craig S.Shapiro,Sheila Krstevski, and Gilbany Suarez

Workshop for Applied Linguistics Researchers

 

Miriam Eisenstein Ebsworth and Timothy John Ebsworth
Bilingual Education for the Transnational Dominican Community

 

Sharon Utakis and Marianne Pita

Using History, Music and Art to Teach College ESL

 

Ninah Beliavsky

d

3:00-3:40

Predictors of Literacy in the Second Language

 

Gail August

Pragmatic Conventions in English and Spanish

 

Derrin Pinto
Family Language Learning

 

Judith Coppock Gex

A Current Comparison of Academic ESL Program across CUNY

 

Julia B. Carroll and Merce Pujol

e

3:45-4:25

Development of L2 academic literacy by college students

 

Anastasia Riazantseva

Asking for Permission: A Comparative Study of Brazilian Portuguese and British English

 

Fernando Naiditch

Using History to Help the ESL Learner

 

Amy Finegold

The Newspaper in the Language Learning Process

 

Alexander Astor

 

4:30-5:30

Wine and Cheese Reception , E Building Atrium