NDSU Teaching and Learning Conference

"Best Teaching Practices for Enhanced Learning"

Wednesday, August 20, Memorial Union Plains Room

9:00-9:30	Plains M.U.	Welcome and Opening Remarks Craig Schnell, Provost/VPAA and Sudhir Mehta, Assoc. V.P. Academic Affairs
9:30-10:30	Plains M.U.	Keynote "The English of ESL/EFL Students: How Identity and Attitude Influence Language Learning and Use" **Dr. James Stalker, Professor Emeritus, Michigan State University

Concurrent Sessions

NDSU Teaching and Learning Conference
“Best Teaching Practices for Enhanced Learning”
Wednesday, August 20, Memorial Union Plains Room

9:00 - 9:30		Plains M.U.	Welcome and Opening Remarks Craig Schnell, Provost/VPAA: Sudhir Mehta, Assoc. V.P. Academic Affairs: Donald Schwert, Dir. Center Sci & Math; Jeffery Gerst, Assoc VP of IT & CIO
9:30 - 10:30		Plains M.U.	Keynote “The English of ESL/EFL Students: How Identity and Attitude Influence Language Learning and Use ” **Dr. James Stalker, Professor Emeritus, Michigan State University
Concurrent Sessions
Locations >	Dolve 117			Dolve 118	Dolve 202	Dolve 215
10:45 - 11:40	What’s going on with my international students’ English? A Q/A session with an ESL/EFL veteran Dr. James Stalker			See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil -- Using Technology to Deliver to all Learning Styles Jeff Gerst and others	Small Steps for Big Classes William Martin and Lisa Montplaisir
11:50 - 12:50	Plains Room, Memorial Union			Lunch Provided by the Provost
1:00 - 1:50	ESL - Writing and Living Across Cultures Enrico Sassi			Gender matters in the college classroom Ann Burnett, Betsy Birmingham, Canan Bilen Green	Utilizing multiple distance technologies for teaching and learning Ron Stammen 2008 Peltier Award
2:00 - 2:50	Which words are the hard words for ESL/EFL students? Bruce Maylath			Tips for the Less Experienced Teacher: An Interactive Session Charlene Wolf-Hall	Engaging students in their learning Dogan Comez 2007 Odney Award	Engaging Students through Technology - Tidbits from Fellow Faculty Members Jeff Gerst and others

** Dr. Stalker’s experience with international students learning to write in English will help all faculty on campus work with all students, especially the growing number of international students at NDSU. When he retired at the end of 2007, Dr. Stalker had become renowned as one of the leading authorities in the world in applied linguistics and TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) and in particular on the effect of students’ native culture on their learning of English as a foreign language. His most recent research has focused on students whose first language is Turkish, but his earlier research includes students from Malaysia, Japan, China, and many other countries and languages. His book Problems of Standardization and Linguistic Variation in Present-Day English remains a standard in the field, and his articles commonly appear in such journals as Applied Linguistics, World Englishes, College Composition & Communication, and English Journal.

How to register yourself into the August T&L Conference:

Log into Blackboard using your firstname.lastname login and your NDSU password.
Find the Organization Catalog module on the opening screen and click on the Browse Organization Catalog link.
In the Search Catalog section, search for the conference by typing "August" into the blank provided, and click on GO.
In the Search Results, "091-NDSU-ORG-TLCONF August '08 T&L Conference" will appear.
Click on the Enroll button for that organization.
On the following page, click on Submit to register for the conference. Then click on OK.
The announcement page for the conference will appear, where you can view the specifics about the conference.

Or, if you prefer, email Edward Deckard (edward.deckard@ndsu.edu) to be registered manually.