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ESL providers are uniquely positioned to advance the integration of immigrants and refugees into their new communities. The ALLIES Immigrant Integration Framework offers an innovative way to identify, implement and measure the critical factors for successful immigrant integration, and invites cross-sector collaboration and innovative classroom practices.
This presentation describes a study that explored the role of sentence writing in vocabulary learning. This study incorporated a sentence-writing strategy into an English language curriculum to investigate its effects on the depth of EFL learners’ vocabulary knowledge; it further elicited learners’ perceptions toward the effectiveness of the strategy used.
This presentation analyzed the use of simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences in writing samples from ESL students at a four-year university. These forms were tallied to determine if their use equated superior grades. Class levels were explored as a way to gauge where these sentence types were used most.
No teacher is the same! Teachers require personalized development to meet their differentiating needs, requirements and preferences. This session compares different development frameworks and offers practical suggestions on how they can be used to identify a teacher’s profile and better inform institution’s development schedules that personalize to the individual teacher.
Students thrive when they participate in activities that are purposeful, well thought-out, and engaging. Jeopardy is a prime example. This poster will provide a variety of communicative methods to utilize Jeopardy in differing classroom settings, such as online websites, as well as ways to prevent troublesome issues.
Students often cringe when they have to read. They find it a difficult and cumbersome task. How can teachers motivate students to look past this and help them identify with the context? This poster will share activities that integrate young adult fiction and film to make reading fun and interesting.
As instructors in a digital age, there are many resources available to us. Many of these materials are tried and used, such as, pictures and music. In this presentation, we will share innovative ways of engaging with said materials, and assisting teachers in expanding their ability to utilize these resources.
How does English learners’ handwriting influence teachers’ perceptions of their writing ability? This interactive poster session explores this question by comparing scores on handwritten essays with typed and transcribed versions. The presenters share their findings and encourage teachers to reflect on their own grading practices and possible handwriting biases.
