Annual MATESOL Student Speaker Series | The New School

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The New School's MATESOL program is very proud to present the annual MATESOL Student Speaker Series. The series is a forum for MATESOL students and alumni to share their ideas, research and reflections on various aspects of the ESL classroom. The overarching aim is to provide ESL teachers with practical ideas and techniques for lessons, and to create a shared space for reflection on teaching in the ESL classroom.

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The MATESOL speakers are:

Maria Brewster: Learning English as a foreign language is a challenging process for many people in Turkey. For the prospective academic staff of newly opened universities in Turkey it can be especially challenging. The Higher Education Council has launched a comprehensive program called ÖYP (Öğretim Elemani Yetiştirme Program), which aims to train all prospective academic staff. According to the Higher Education Council regulations, candidates must get qualifying scores from language proficiency exams administered by the council themselves. Maria took part in the language education of academics in Turkey while on a Fulbright Scholarship. In this presentation, she will share her research and experiences in Turkey. The focus of her research was how performance and competence interacted during the educational process.

Connie Sargent: From Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America and the Caribbean, refugees in the classroom bring to life newspaper headlines from the hotspots of the world. Highly motivated, but sometimes unpredictable, these energized classes provide a first step towards a new life. This presentation looks at the unique challenges ESL teachers face when helping these people learn a survival English for resettlement in the United States.

Location: Wollman Hall, Eugene Lang Building, 65 West 11th Street.
08/09/2011 6:00 p.m.

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