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ESL Instructional Resources - For Faculty - Writing and Communication Center - UW Bothell - 0 views

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    University of Washington Bothell Writing and Communication Center's extensive list of ESL Instructional resources, Young-Kyung Min who wrote all the resources offers the following: "Over the last four decades, the demographics in US institutions of higher education have rapidly changed with an ever-increasing enrollment of non-native English speaking students. The enrollment of non-native English speaking students on our campus has greatly increased since its establishment. Creating a global learning environment is one of the main learning goals for our campus; thus, it is very important for faculty to continue learning about the particular needs and concerns of our non-native English speaking students and the campus resources available to assist faculty in helping students with their needs and concerns. Please continue to visit this website as more resources will be added to this section."
mickey130

Integrating Speaking - For Faculty - Writing and Communication Center - UW Bothell - 0 views

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    University of Washington-Bothell Writing and Communication's resources on speaking, including finding a voice in the classroom, pointing, and taking a stand
Lee Ann Glowzenski

Developing a Speaking Center - 0 views

Lee Ann Glowzenski

Exploring success in tutoring the non-native english speaker at university writing centers - 3 views

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    This study examined the perspectives of both tutors at university writing centers and the Non-Native English Speaking (NNES) students who use the centers. Using qualitative methods, this study looked at perceptions of the academic writing needs of the NNES students, along with characteristics of tutoring sessions which made the sessions successful in the eyes of tutors and students. The study used interviews, observations, a survey, and artifacts to look at these topics and then compared the perceptions of tutors and students. Additionally, the study compared writing centers at two universities, one of which employs an ESL specialist, in order to learn if employing this specialist affects success for the tutors and NNES students. Results indicate that student and tutor perceptions of student needs were similar in that they expressed consistent need for grammar assistance and help with low-order concerns (LOCs). Sessions at both universities were successful, according to tutors and students, if sessions focused on these grammar and LOC needs. Employing an ESL specialist did not affect the perceptions of students or tutors nor did it seem to effect the success of sessions for either students or tutors.
Lee Ann Glowzenski

Negotiating Linguistic Certainty for ESL Writers at the Writing Center - 0 views

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    From ABSTRACT: "For teaching practices in the Writing Center, the findings raise questions about how writing center pedagogy can empower L2 writers on their language control when the writing consultants have the ultimate control in language and the L2 learners have the inherent uncertainty. While writing center work draws on the advantages of collaborative dialogues and effects better language control for ESL writers based on a sociocultural learning perspective, writing center pedagogy needs to continue reconsidering the needs and beliefs of ESL writers (Blau & Hall, 2002; Powers, 1993). The language issue in ESL writing is not a lower order concern in the writing, but more likely a primary concern for the writer. As also found in this study, when the broader contextual factors such as the focus of writing and writers' beliefs are taken into account, language knowledge and control are not just about linguistic correctness to ESL writer development. In striving to create better writers but not just better writing for any writers, it is crucial for writing centers to continue rethinking their staff training on the topic of language issues with their diverse multilingual clientele who speaks English as a second language."
Lee Ann Glowzenski

Examining Bridges, Expanding Boundaries, Imagining New Identities: The Writing Center a... - 0 views

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    From abstract: "This dissertation theorizes the writing center as bridge-as an institutional resource that supports second language graduate writers as they journey from outside the academy to the inside-including its strengths and limitations, both locally (for these writers at this writing center) and for the field more broadly. I offer the metaphor of the writing center as bridge, both as an alternate writing center identity and therefore as an alternate approach to tutoring, and as an approach that privileges the multiple subject positions that students hold as they use the writing center.  [...] Based on the literature, the experiences of these participants, and my own experiences as a tutor-turned-coordinator, I ultimately argue that nondirective tutoring is rooted in practice with native-English-speaking undergraduates and that this practice so dominates many writing centers' identities that it has left little room for other subject positions, including those of second language graduate writers."
Lee Ann Glowzenski

Multilingual Terminology - 0 views

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    a discussion of the various terms used to describe students who speak and/or write in more than one language
Paula Miller

The Center for Writing and Speaking (COWS) Blog | Whitman's online wealth of writing ti... - 0 views

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    Whitman College Center for Writing and Speaking"s blog. Entries offer advice on writing. 
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    Whitman College's Writing Center blog
Lee Ann Glowzenski

Jonathon Martinez - Tutoring Podcast - 1 views

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    SUNY Plattsburgh's Jonathon Martinez sits down with Tom Halford to chat about writing tutoring. Martinez talks about learning to speak English fluently as a child, and he explains why he wanted to become a writing tutor.
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    John Martinez's "Tutoing Podcast" was published in the Fall 2014 student journal Tutors.
Lee Ann Glowzenski

Oral Communication in the Writing Center - 0 views

Lee Ann Glowzenski

Writing Centers in Spanish-Speaking Countries - 0 views

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    also discusses lack of Spanish-language WC scholarship
mickey130

The Big List of Class Discussion Strategies | Cult of Pedagogy - 1 views

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    The Cult of Pedagogy website with suggestions for discussion strategies that might be useful for tutor training classes, by Jennifer Gonzalez. Also available to listen to as a podcast
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