Fall 2015 PTE Conference at a Glance
8-8:50
Registration, Publisher Exhibits & Breakfast (Commons)
9-9:40
Improving
Critical Thinking
Development in
ESL classroom
Yang, Chen,
Teng Elem, Sec,
EFL
Giving Voice
and Visibility
to ELLs:
Descriptive
Review
Process
Copeland,
Parry, Solon,
Jiang
Elem Ed
Classroom
Management
and the ESL
College
Classroom
Labov
Higher Ed
9:4510:25
Transforming
reluctant writers
into active,
confident
writers with
corpus-informed
instruction
Dare (Cambridge
U. Press
Publisher)
Higher Ed
Working
Towards
Equity:
Strengtening ELL
Family/
School Relationships
Gallo,
Zezima
Elem/Sec Ed
Conversation
Champions:
Collaborative
Listening/Speak
-ing Activity
Strickland, Bell
Higher, Adult
10:4011:55
12:0012:45
12:451:30
From PHL to
Bangkok:
Activities and
Projects that
Help Build
Confidence
and Sense of
Community
Jury
Sec, Higher,
Adult, EFL
Teaching
Literacy Skills
and Oral
Proficiency
Using a
Graphic Novel
Harris
Sec, Higher,
Adult, Teacher
Ed
Teaching Logic
and Critical
Reading to
International
Students
Babich
Higher,
Graduate,
Teacher Ed
Apps in the
Classroom
Larsen
Higher, Adult
Ed
Identifying
Pronunciation
Difficulties to
Inform ESL
Teaching
Tower
Higher Ed
Building
International
Student
Campus
Involvement
Ousey
Higher Ed
Who makes
the decisions
in your
classroom?
Zeitlin
Higher, Adult,
Teacher Ed
Adapting
Project-Based
Learning to
TESOL
Estey
All IS
Using Need In
Deed’s My
Voice
Framework to
see R.E.D.
Ahram, Kim,
Villella, Myers
All IS
Online
Dictionaries:
Helpful for ESL
Students?
Li, Gee
Sec, Higher,
Teacher, Tech
Plenary (Murphy Hall – Stiteler Auditorium)
How to promote resilience and success among low-income English Language Learners – Rosa Aronson
12:00-12:45 Lunch 1 red (Commons) + Posters (Gallery – upstairs in Commons) + Publishers
12:45-1:30 Lunch 2 blue (Commons) + Posters (Gallery – upstairs in Commons) + Publishers
Posters
Posters
Posters
Posters
Posters
12:001:30
How much is
too much? L1
use and
academic
performance of
international
students in an
American
boarding high
school
Zhang, Sec Ed
Incorporating
ESL Students’
Needs into
Curriculum
Saunders
All IS
The
Unparalleled
Possibilities
of the
English
Language
Fellow
Program
Jury
All IS
Common
Pronunciation
Problems for
Chinese ELLs
Shi
Adult, EFL,
Teacher Ed
Drawing
meaning from
Second
Language
Acquisition
van Naerssen,
Amado, Cohen,
Pascale
Graduate,
Teacher Ed
1:402:00
What
Works!
The Use of
Mensa Select
Games to
Promote
Communicative
Competence
Purinton
Elem, Sec,
Higher, EFL
English
Writing
Workshop for
Transnational
Students in
Puebla,
Mexico
Tacelosky,
Kensinger
EFL
Probability
of
Communicative
Outcome in
English
Speaking
Classes
La
Adult
Making Room for
Students’ Voices
in the Classroom
Cinaglia
Adult, Graduate
How to Help
Chinese ESL
Students Adapt
to New
Learning
Environments
in the United
States
Chen, Ye, Bi
Sec, Higher
Dynamic
Grouping:
Making the
Sum of the
Parts Greater
Than the Whole
Hassell
Higher, Adult,
EFL, Teacher Ed
Not the Same:
Foreign
Language
Study and ESL
in the United
States
Kelleher
Adult
Teaching
American
Idioms: How
Contextualizat
ion Empowers
Comprehension and
Retention
Longbottom
All IS
2:052:25
What
Works!
&
2:002:40
2:05-2:25
Immigrant
Services in
Kingston,
Ontario-up and
coming
Deaton
All IS
2:05-2:25
What Works
in the
classroom for
Visually
Impaired
Students: A
Case Study
Zimkowski
All IS
2:05-2:25
Bridging
R.E.D. from
the
classroom
outside
Aubin
All IS
2:00-2:40
Writing Using the
C.S.Q.T. Method
Leigh
Secondary
2:00-2:40
TESOL's New
Standards for
Short Term
TESOL
Certificates
Dormer
Teacher Ed
2:00-2:40
Guidelines for
Administration
of police
cautions to
non-native
speakers of
English
van Naerssen
Higher, Adult
2:00-2:40
National Parks
as Classroom Valley Forge
Coppola
All IS
2:00-2:40
Reaching Out
With an NGO
Fair
Wolf
Higher Ed