NYSTESOL Applied Linguistics Winter Conference / Concurrent Sessions / Feb. 23, 2002

Feb. 23 Applied Linguistics Winter Conference / Concurrent Sessions

	Time	Room E-201 SPECIAL SESSION ON LEARNING COMMUNITIES	Room E-258 RESEARCH; SECONDARY	COLLEGE, ADULT	Room E-225 COLLEGE, ADULT
a	9:45-10:25	*The Power of Academic Learning Communities* Marcia Babbitt & Rebecca Mlynarczyk	Hip Hop Colloquium	Room E-255 (computer Lab) BLACKBOARD Threaded Discussion to Enhance Cross-cultural Awareness Agnieszka Rakowicz	*Cultural, Linguistic and Educational Experiences of Adult Latina Women in New York* Lucia Buttaro
b	10:30-11:10	*Pairing Content and ESL: Buying into the Program* Carolyn Sterling-Deer	Michael Newman & Jon Yassin	Room E-229 Learning English While Exploring Library Resources: It Works! Darlene Larson	*Meaning Making and the Immigrant Narrative* Sue Dicker
	11:15-12:45	*Plenary: A. Suresh Canagarajah* Hidden Communities in Classroom Learning
	12:45-2:10	Lunch
		Room E-201 SPECIAL SESSION ON LEARNING COMMUNITIES	Room E-258 RESEARCH	Room E-229 ELEMENTARY, SECONDARY	Room E-225
c	2:15-2:55	*Developing Essay-Writing Skills Through Learning in Communities* Diana S. Lu	*TESOL as a Community of Practice: Are International Graduate Students Peripheral Members?* Francis M. Hult	*The Sheltered Instructional Approach: An Effective Way to Teach Language* Amy Finegold	CUNY ESL Council
d	3:00-3:40	PANEL: Learning Communities: A Framework for Integrating Language, Content and Critical Thinking	*Stabilization and Fossilization in Advanced Spanish Composition: Error Analysis and Correction Strategies* Lotfi Sayahi	*Building Bronx International High School* Shael Polakow-Suransky and Bronx International High School faculty
e	3:45-4:25	William Koolsbergen, Carol Montgomery & Louis Lucca	*The Influence of Two Conversational Activities on Using Communication Strategies by EFL Jordanian Learners* Rajai Al Khanji	Virginia Jama	*Focus on Form and Function in Second-Language Teaching* Joseph Davis

For more information, please consult the Winter Conference Web page
on the NYS TESOL site. Registration for the winter conference is
$30 (NYSTESOL members) and $40 (non-members) before Feb. 14th, $35
and $45 on site Feb. 23rd.

Thanks to Sharon Utakis (Sharon.Utakis@bcc.cuny.edu) for this
early version of the conference program.

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