FALL 2001

UMBC ESOL/BILINGUAL M.A. PROGRAM NEWSLETTER

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Jodi Crandall's article "Rethinking Classroom Management: Creating an Effective Learning Community," was published in the May/June 2001 issue of ESL Magazine.
She also gave the plenary address at Ohio TESOL and the ESL Assembly address with Holly Stein at the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE).

Linda Oliva spent some time in Greece this summer presenting a paper entitled "A Moving Target: Indicators of Quality and Success in the use of Educational Technologies."  It explored the assessment strategies and research opportunities that facilitate meaningful evaluation of the application of educational technologies.
She is currently involved with the AT&T Technology Enhanced Learning Environments Project Grant, in its second year.  The project matches 20 UMBC students who act as technology mentors with 20 teachers at Professional Development Schools throughout the surrounding counties.  The mentors and teachers work together for 1 year to plan, implement, and evaluate technology enhanced learning environments in the classroom.  This is a great opportunity for UMBC to give directly to classroom teachers.

Ron Schwartz was in Lima, Peru this summer doing an evaluation of the Academic English Program at the Instituto Cultural Peruano Norteamericano. 

Ana Maria Schwartz and Sarah Shin will be the local co-chairs for the AAAL Convention to be held in Baltimore in the Spring of 2003.

 

 

 

 

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Congratulations to Ana Maria Schwartz on the publication of her textbook Noticias. Advanced Intermediate Content-Based Course, coauthored with Alan Bell and published by McGraw Hill.

Sarah Shin has been very busy with several publications and presentations:

  • "Birth order and the language experience of bilingual children," to be published in TESOL Quarterly.
  • "Understanding codeswitching, valuing bilingualism," Thinking Classroom: A Journal of Reading, Writing, and Critical Reflection, 6, 20-26.
  • "Teacher, why is 'at Tuesday' wrong?: The making of effective ESOL writing instructors," published in Poole, L., Cushall, M., and Hosford, K. (eds.) Maryland Association of Teacher Educators celebrates successes in teacher education.
  • "Cross-language speech perception in adults: Discrimination of Korean voiceless stops by English speakers. Studies in the Linguistic Sciences, 31 (2).
  • "One person, two languages: Cross-disciplinary perspectives on bilingualism," for the LLC Ph.D. Program Colloquium "You're crossing my border!: A panel discussion on crossing racial, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, technological, and other borders."
  • "Integrating reflective practice into writing teacher education." Paper presented at 2001 WATESOL Annual Conference.