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TESOL Doctoral STudent Forum
New Orleans, LA: Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. Rooms 227-
2011Wednesday, March 169:00 AM – 5:00 PM
TESOL Doctoral Forum 2011228.
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THE 2011 TESOL DOCTORAL FORUM
The TESOL annual convention includes a Doctoral Forum where doctoral students can network with each other and with experienced TESOL researchers and educators to discuss their doctoral programs and dissertation research.
The 2011 Doctoral Forum features discussions with leading TESOL researchers, doctoral student research poster sessions, mentoring discussion sessions based on interest, and presentations on hot topics related to doctoral study and research.
What is the purpose of the forum?The forum is a gathering place for doctoral level students to:
Meet and network with other doctoral students and faculty from other universities
Share experiences and expertise in:o Research methodso Dissertation processeso Teaching and learning experienceso Helpful resources
Participate in formal presentations on dissertation work
Joellen E. Coryell, PhDThe University of Texas at San Antonio2011 TESOL Doctoral Forum [email protected]
Monica McCrory, MA TESOLDoctoral Student, University of Missouri2011 TESOL Doctoral Forum Assistant [email protected]
Special Thanks to: TESOL, Inc.; Valerie Borchelt, Professional Relations Manager; and Lisa Dyson, TESOL Director of Conference Services
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TESOL Doctoral Forum 2011Thanks also to our featured speaker, mentors, and volunteers!
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Schedule
8:15 – 8:45..........................TESOL Doctoral Forum Registration(Poster Session 1 set-up)
9:00 – 9:30................Welcome, Orientation, and Introductions
9:30 – 10:00.........................TESOL’s Executive Board Welcome
10:00 – 11:30..........................Poster Session 1 and Networking
11:30 – 12:30 ...................................................................Lunch (Poster Session 1 breakdown/ Poster Session 2 set-up)
12:30 – 2:00........................... Poster Session 2 and Networking
2:00 – 3:00 .....................................................Featured SpeakerLawrence Jun Zhang, PhD
English Language and Literature GroupNational Institute of Education
3:00 – 3:15....................................................................... BREAK (Poster Session 2 breakdown)
3:15 – 4:30.................................................Mentor Roundtables
4:30 – 5:00.................................... Final Comments/Evaluations
TESOL Doctoral Student Forum participants are requested to join us for the full day of activities.
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Poster Presentation Session 1Presentation # 1
Presenter: Gina Amenta & Arayna Lindsay YearwoodInstitutional Affiliation: George Mason UniversityArea of Research: Intercultural CommunicationTitle of Presentation: Promoting International-Mindedness in Diverse Elementary ClassroomsAbstract: International-mindedness can be developed while complementing curriculum guidelines, when teachers engage in ongoing dialogue with students about language, culture, and multiple perspectives. Preliminary research suggests international- mindedness contributes to providing equity and excellence for all learners.Email: (1) [email protected]; (2) [email protected]
Presentation # 2Presenter: Arthur Hullender & Philip McCarthyInstitutional Affiliation: University of MemphisArea of Research: Applied LinguisticsTitle of Presentation: ESP Applications for Modern Art Criticism and Photography CriticismAbstract: This is a contrastive analysis of Modern Art Criticism and Photography Criticism. It identifies lexical features indicative of each and discusses their applications for ESP.Email: [email protected]
Presentation # 3Presenter: Alison Youngblood & Melanie C. GonzálezInstitutional Affiliation: University of Central FloridaArea of Research: Assessment and EvaluationTitle of Presentation: The TOEFL PBT vs. iBT: Which is Harder?Abstract: A study examined TOEFL PBT and iBT composite scores and iBT section scores. Data showed no significant difference in test version. Examinees scored significantly higher on the speaking section which contradicts perceptions of the iBT.Email: (1) [email protected]; (2) [email protected]
Presentation # 4Presenter: Omar AlqadoumiInstitutional Affiliation: Indiana University of PennsylvaniaArea of Research: Computer-Assisted Language LearningTitle of Presentation: Merging the Forces of Asynchronous Tutoring and Synchronous Conferencing: A Qualitative Study of Bahraini EFL Academic Writers with E-tutoring
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Abstract: This research study aims at reporting the experiences of Bahraini EFL academic writers with asynchronous and synchronous e-tutoring. It also focuses on reporting the experiences of e-tutors who provide those services.Email: [email protected]
Presentation # 5Presenter: Andrew BoonInstitutional Affiliation: Toyo Gakuen University, JapanArea of Research: Teacher EducationTitle of Presentation: Learner Support and Discovery in Vitual Non-judgmental EnvironmentsAbstract: This presentation will examine how post-graduate students have made use of Instant Messenger Cooperative Development (IMCD); an online tool that helps to facilitate and support reflection, discovery, and action for individuals conducting researchEmail: [email protected]
Presentation # 6Presenter: Kurt Burcu GokgozInstitutional Affiliation: University of South CarolinaArea of Research: Teaching of PragmaticsTitle of Presentation: The Effects of Inductive and Deductive Instruction in Teaching ESL Learners Complimenting and Compliment RespondingAbstract: The purpose of the present study is to investigate the effects of inductive and deductive instruction in improving the pragmatic use of language. The data reveal that learners do not benefit from these two teaching paradigms to the same degree.Email: [email protected]
Presentation # 7Presenter: Julian ChenInstitutional Affiliation: University of Maryland, College ParkArea of Research: Computer-Assisted Language Learning (in 3-D virtual environments)Title of Presentation: English Language Learners’ Language Practices in Second Life: Lessons Learned from Conducting Research in 3-D Multi-user Virtual EnvironmentsAbstract: This pilot study explores EFL learners' perceptions about their language practices in Second Life and how their created avatars impact their language production and virtual identities. Lessons drawn from the study will be also presented.Email: [email protected]
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Presentation # 8Presenter: Rob ClémentInstitutional Affiliation: Murdoch University, Perth, Western AustraliaArea of Research: Change Management (Program Administration?)Title of Presentation: Mediating Educational Change in the Middle East: A Multiple Case Study of an Educational Reform Project in a Gulf StateAbstract: Change, management and leadership are the foci of this study of an ongoing educational reform project in a Gulf State. The development of Islamic Leadership and Middle Eastern Change Management theories are expected outcomes.Email: [email protected] ; [email protected]
Presentation # 9Presenter: John C.HeplerInstitutional Affiliation: Indiana University of PennsylvaniaArea of Research: ESOL in Adult Education, Computer Assisted Language LearningTitle of Presentation: Using Planetarium Software to Access Student Culture & MythologyAbstract: The session will introduce Stellarium.org, a free planetarium program, and its use as a way to encourage Adult Education ESOL students to share their culture and mythology while practicing English in multicultural classrooms.Email: [email protected]
Presentation # 10Presenter: Huili HongInstitutional Affiliation: The Ohio State UniversityArea of Research: ESOL in Elementary Education; WritingTitle of Presentation: What is in the rainbow?: Complexities of academic learning in 5-year-olds’ poem writingAbstract: This study examined poem writing of nineteen ESL kindergarteners from six different ethnolinguistic backgrounds. Using poem samples and transcripts of classroom interactions, it explored what and how academic learning was revealed in their writing processes.Email: [email protected]
Presentation # 11Presenter: Rashi JainInstitutional Affiliation: University of Maryland, College parkArea of Research: ESL in Higher Education, ESOL in Adult Education, Practitioner Research at doctoral level.
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TESOL Doctoral Forum 2011Title of Presentation: Practitioner Research as Doctoral Dissertation in Adult ESL: Examinations and InsightsAbstract: How do doctoral candidates who are also practitioners meaningfully integrate research and teaching in adult ESL classrooms? This presentation provides insights from a practitioner research study at doctoral level in a community college ESL setting. The presenter examines the dichotomy between practice and research, and invites the audience to envision ways of engaging in research in their own instructional sites.Email: [email protected]
Presentation # 12Presenter: Seong-Yoon KangInstitutional Affiliation: Indiana State UniversityArea of Research: English as a Foreign LanguageTitle of Presentation: Personality Factors and Strategic Approaches in English as a Foreign LanguageAbstract: This empirical study investigates the correlations of the big five personality traits and language learning strategies of EFL Korean college students and estimates the predictive power of personality factors on students’ strategic approaches.Email: [email protected]
Presentation # 13Presenter: Hye-Kyung KimInstitutional Affiliation: Indiana University at BloomingtonArea of Research: Teacher EducationTitle of Presentation: Positioning in the construction of narrative identities in language teacher educationAbstract: My research aims to explore how Asian language teachers negotiate and reshape their identities in a U.S. language teacher education program in relation to issues of power, linguistic imperialism, native-speaker ideology, and World Englishes.Email: [email protected]
Presentation # 14Presenter: NamHee KimInstitutional Affiliation: Indiana UniversityArea of Research: English as a Foreign LanguageTitle of Presentation: Metacognition-centered Reading Strategy Clusters and Chains Used by Korean EFL University StudentsAbstract: The study shows Korean EFL university students' metacognitive reading strategy use and its combination with other strategies simultaneously with or in sequence when reading online texts.
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TESOL Doctoral Forum 2011Presentation # 15
Presenter: Jessica KingInstitutional Affiliation: York University, Toronto, ONArea of Research: Sociopolitical IssuesTitle of Presentation: The successful skilled immigrant woman: National and personal narratives of integrationAbstract: The proposed dissertation will inquire into the integration experiences of professionally trained immigrant women. The research framework is in need of methodology selection that will allow connections to be made between learner narratives of integration and larger national narratives of integration as articulated in policy discourse.Email: [email protected]
Presentation # 16Presenter: Shu-Chun TsengInstitutional Affiliation: Indiana State UniversityArea of Research: Teacher Education/Other (Professional Development)Title of Presentation: Understanding NNESTs’ Identity Construction and Transformation in the English-Speaking Community: A Closer Look at Past, Present, and FutureAbstract: With years of constructing self-identity in home countries, NNESTs live in different contexts while completing a U.S. M.A. TESOL program. This study examines NNESTs’ life experiences and offers insights to their perceptions of being NNESTs.Email: [email protected]
Poster Presentation Session 2Presentation # 17
Presenter: Khawla KittanehInstitutional Affiliation: Indiana University of PennsylvaniaArea of Research: WritingTitle of Presentation: Writing Characteristics of Female Arab ESL StudentsAbstract: The presenter will discuss the most prominent characteristics and most systematic errors that occur in the writing of Arab female ESL students; which is an area of research on ESL writing that has been overlooked.Email: [email protected]
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Presentation # 18Presenter: Hui-Chun KungInstitutional Affiliation: Indiana State UniversityArea of Research: Intensive English ProgramsTitle of Presentation: A Qualitative Study: How Can Asian Students Improve Their English Oral Skills?Abstract: This study will investigate (1) the Asian students’ oral communication performance. (2) How do they improve their oral skills? (3) How do ESL teacher’s teaching strategies help students significantly? There are three lenses: communicative competence, cultural difference affects communicative skills, and students’ personality and learning motivation.Email: [email protected]
Presentation # 19Presenter: Ruo-Wan LeiInstitutional Affiliation: Indiana University of PennsylvaniaArea of Research: WritingTitle of Presentation: A Case Study of a Taiwanese Teacher’s Group Exploring Narrative PedagogyAbstract: This study explores Taiwanese teachers’ views of teaching narrative writing in Taiwanese colleges. A Taiwanese teachers’ group will be set up to explore the gap between narrative theory and its application in Taiwanese college composition.Email: [email protected]
Presentation # 20Presenter: Miralynn Malupa-KimInstitutional Affiliation: Alliant International University – San DiegoArea of Research: Teacher Education, GrammarTitle of Presentation: Information Structure of Native English Speaking ESOL Teachers in Grammar ExplanationsAbstract: Giving explanations is an important feature of teacher talk, especially in language classrooms with students of different proficiency levels. This study will identify and analyze NES ESOL teachers’ grammar explanations using an information structure framework.Email: [email protected]; [email protected]
Presentation # 21Presenter: Michele MasonInstitutional Affiliation: Washington State University VancouverArea of Research: (1) intercultural communication; (2) ESOL in elementary education; and (3) sociolinguistics research
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TESOL Doctoral Forum 2011Title of Presentation: The Discursive Construction of Native Americans in Elementary Social Studies: Examining Teacher Talk through a Critical LensAbstract: As an expressive form of culture, language transmits and shapes ideologies. The presenter discusses how ideologies are revealed in language used by teachers with specialized English as a Second Language preparation during social studies instruction.Email: [email protected]
Presentation # 22Presenter: Kristene McClureInstitutional Affiliation: Indiana University of PennsylvaniaArea of Research: Applied Linguistics (or Other: Second Language Literacy)Title of Presentation: Exploring Armenian Immigrant Women's Narratives of Multiple Literacies and LanguagesAbstract: This dissertation will explore the literacy histories and practices ofmultilingual Armenian immigrant women. The study is basedtheoretically within feminist poststructuralism and feministcommunitarian ethics, and methodologically within principles of narrative inquiry.Email: [email protected]
Presentation # 23Presenter: Hayat MessekherInstitutional Affiliation: Indiana University of PennsylvaniaArea of Research: English as a Foreign Language and Teacher EducationTitle of Presentation: “We are studying in the US and not anywhere else!”Abstract: The preliminary findings of a narrative inquiry on the academic socialization of Algerian graduate students matriculated in MA and PhD programs in TESOL and Applied Linguistics are shared. These are both personal and political journeys.Email: [email protected]
Presentation # 24Presenter: Deepak PantInstitutional Affiliation: Indiana University of PennsylvaniaArea of Research: English as a Foreign Language, Second Language Writing: Learning & Pedagogy, World EnglishesTitle of Presentation: Using narrative inquiry as a methodology for research on second language, literacy and pedagogyAbstract: My presentation will discuss the issues and challenges in using narrative inquiry as a research methodology in my dissertation entitled “Reconstructing Myself: An Autobiographical Study of Second Language, Literacy and Pedagogy.”
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Presenter: Seungku ParkInstitutional Affiliation: Indiana University of PennsylvaniaArea of Research: Intercultural communication/teacher educationTitle of Presentation: The effects of practicum: Post practicum attitudinal changes toward the myth of standard English among East Asian MA TESOL students in America.Abstract: This study examines six East Asian MA TESOL students’ conceptual changes about “the native speaker fallacy” before and after their practicum of teaching in English, and overcoming the “myth” of standard English.Email: [email protected]
Presentation # 26Presenter: Nadezda PimenovaInstitutional Affiliation: Purdue UniversityArea of Research: English as a Foreign Language Materials DesignTitle of Presentation: Making Capital Out of Thematic Units in EFL ClassAbstract: Designing a thematic unit is a teaching challenge if the class is diverse in cultures and levels of students’ proficiency. The presenter will share the unit materials taught at the university in Russia.Email: [email protected]
Presentation # 27Presenter: Jonathan SmartInstitutional Affiliation: Northern Arizona UniversityArea of Research: GrammarTitle of Presentation: Using language corpora in ESL grammar instructionAbstract: This presentation reports on a classroom-based study using corpus-based teaching materials in an IEP grammar course. Quantitative and qualitative findings on learning outcomes and participant attitudes are discussed.Email: [email protected]
Presentation # 28Presenter: Debra SolomonInstitutional Affiliation: Gateway Technical CollegeArea of Research: ESL in Higher Education/College TransitionTitle of Presentation: Technical College Alumni Look Back: Journeys from ESL through GraduationAbstract: Technical college alumni describe their college transition journey beginning with English as a Second Language classes. What support helped them persist to graduation? What obstacles and challenges did they manage?Email: [email protected]
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TESOL Doctoral Forum 2011Presentation # 29
Presenter: Shao-Wen SuInstitutional Affiliation: National Chin-Yi University of Technology (Taiwan)Area of Research: Research in Higher EducationTitle of Presentation: A study of elevating academic research capability: Perceptions of humanities and social science teachers in general universities in TaiwanAbstract: This paper aims at identifying research difficulties of humanities and social science teachers in general universities in Taiwan and exploring ways to elevate their research capacity. A questionnaire survey is adopted, with 47 teachers’ participation.Email: [email protected]
Presentation # 30Presenter: Liping SuInstitutional Affiliation: Ohio State UniversityArea of Research: Teacher educationTitle of Presentation: Trained in U.S., Teaching in China: Exploring the U.S. training experiences of prospective English teachers in ChinaAbstract: From the sociocultural view of teacher education (Richards, 2008), the study is to investigate the U.S. training experiences of prospective English teachers in China by examining their major needs, available resources, and teacher identity formation in the training process.Email: [email protected]
Presentation # 31Presenter: Kimberly WatsonInstitutional Affiliation: University of MemphisArea of Research: Intercultural CommunicationTitle of Presentation: World English and the Internet: How Different Do Businesses CommunicateAbstract: Which English to teach has long been a concern to ESL/EFL educators. Understanding business English differences along with the changes in communication due to the Internet can lead to better English instruction.Email: [email protected]
Presentation # 32Presenter: Kelly WonderInstitutional Affiliation: University of St. ThomasArea of Research: Other – Long-term English Learners in higher educationTitle of Presentation: From access to departure: The experiences of long-term English learners in higher education
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Abstract: This qualitative, longitudinal dissertation examines the departure and persistence experiences of long-term English learners (LTELs) who enter the university through an access and academic support program.Email: [email protected]
Presentation # 33Presenter: Zhiling WuInstitutional Affiliation: Indiana University of PennsylvaniaArea of Research: Assessment and EvaluationTitle of Presentation: Washback effects of the reformed CET-4 on college English teaching and learning in China: Students’ perspectivesAbstract: Because of the scarcity of empirical studies on washback (Alderson and Wall, 1993), this paper examines the washback effects of the reformed national CET-4 test in three universities in China, particularly from students’ perspectives.Email: [email protected]; [email protected]
Presentation # 34Presenter: Shu-Fen YehInstitutional Affiliation: Indiana University of PennsylvaniaArea of Research: WritingTitle of Presentation: Mature multilingual writers’ transitions in voice in L2 contexts: voicist experiences and problemsAbstract: This study explores six Taiwanese mature writers’ voices and academic writing experiences in North American Universities and seeks to create more meaningful grounds for teaching of voice in second language writing instruction.Email: [email protected]
Presentation # 35Presenter: Tecnam YoonInstitutional Affiliation: University of Massachusetts, AmherstArea of Research: CALL/Teaching VocabularyTitle of Presentation: Online AVI (Associated-Visual-Image) mediated vocabulary learning in ESL/EFLAbstract: This study aims to understand the increase of vocabulary and the improvement of reading comprehension of ELL by employing online AVI (Associated-Visual-Image) learning. Email: [email protected]
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Presenter: Breana Abbott BayraktarInstitutional Affiliation: George Mason UniversityArea of Research: academic writing, higher educationTitle of Presentation: Is this in your own words?: learning the expectations of a discourse communityAbstract: This project describes a writing workshop approach to teaching academic writing for international students. Small groups met to talk in-depth about their development as writers. Interviews and course products show growth in participants’ understanding the expectations of academic writing and in application of their new knowledge.Email: [email protected]
Presentation # 37Presenter: Elena AndreiInstitutional Affiliation: University of VirginaArea of Research: ESL in Secondary SchoolsTitle of Presentation: Tracing SIOP: The origins of SIOP and current researchAbstract: Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP) is a model of teaching and planning content-area lessons for English learners (ELs). SIOP originates from sheltered instruction. More research needs to be done to suggest the effectiveness of SIOP.Email: [email protected]
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