Conference Presentations

2009
Deniz Ortactepe presented a poster titled, "Linguistic Development of International Students: A second language socialization approach" at the 30th Annual NYS TESOL Applied Linguistics Conference, at Teacher's College, Columbia University, on March 7, 2009. Deniz's presentation focused on the impact of second language socialization on the linguistic development of three international students who just came to the United States.

Deniz also presented another poster titled, "How second language socialization shapes L2 learners' social and language development: A case study" at the Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics Conference (GURT 2009), at Georgetown University, March 13-15, 2009. Deniz's presentation was on a study that investigated an international student's trajectory of study abroad within the framework of second language socialization through journal entries, interviews and concept maps.

Pam Culbertson co-presented two professional development sessions, "Exploring Upper Elementary Math Concepts with Reading, Writing, and Technology" at the 50th Annual Hudson-Mohawk Valley Area Mathematics Conference on March 28, 2009. Pam's presentation demonstrated how children's books may be used to integrate reading and writing with mathematics concepts and skills using Microsoft Office Word and Excel activities. Participants were given these computerized lessons.

Sedef Uzuner will be presenting her paper "Issues of culture in distance learning: A research review" at the 5th International Conference on Multimedia and Communication Technologies in Education which will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, April 22-24, 2009. Sedef's paper reviews past research that investigated the influence of culture on students' learning and engagement in asynchronous learning networks (ALNs).

Dr. Jane Agee and two ETAP doctoral students, Ruchi Mehta and Sedef Uzuner, will be presenting their study "Blended Learning: A Milieu for Intellectual Work" at the 2009 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual meeting. The study sought to understand how, and if, the integration of online discussions into classroom instruction facilitated intellectual work in a doctoral course.

Suzanne Levine presented a paper entitled, "The Use of Multiple Representations of Science Principles as Tools to Enhance Science Learning and Pedagogy" at the annual SKILL Conference at the University at Albany on March 21, 2009. The research presented focused on the ways in which incorporating multiple representations into science teaching can promote learning and the development of pedagogical content knowledge.

EunHi Seo and Dr. Joseph Bowman presented their paper, "ICT Divide and Student Performance Among 9th Graders in South Korea: Factors and Consequences" at the 5th International Conference on Technology, Knowledge and Society, in Huntsville, Alabama, January 30-February 1, 2009. The paper examined the ICT divide and its effect on school performance among the 9th graders in South Korea by considering the divide into two-dimensional aspects: the first-level ICT divide that was measured by access to the ICT in the home and the second-level ICT divide by usage variations among information-rich students.

EunHi Seo also presented at the TESOL and Applied Linguistics for Graduate Student Conference at East Carolina University in February 2009. Her paper, "Team Teaching Practices by a Native English Teacher and a Korean English Teacher in Korean Classrooms: Effectiveness and Implications," examined the ways in which a team of a native English teacher and a native Korean teacher collaborate with each other and to discover patterns of teaching considered effective in EFL teaching at regular public schools.

Connie Woytowich will be presenting two papers at the National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST) 2009 Annual International Conference in April. Connie's first paper is entitled, "Secondary Science Teachers' Collaborative Reflections on Sharing Best Practices." Her second paper is part of her literature review towards her doctoral thesis, "New York State Regents Examinations: Their Evolution Related to the Current Social Context of Schools".

ChinEe Loh will be presenting her paper, "Reading the World: Reading 'Red Scarf Girl' in a Ninth Grade Class" at the American Educational Research Association Annual conference in April 2009 in San Diego. Her paper examines the kinds of classroom conversations that arose in a ninth grade class as a result of the study of Red Scarf Girl (Jiang, 1997), a memoir set during the Cultural Revolution in China.

ChinEe Loh will also be presenting at a panel session on Literature Education at the Redesigning Pedagogy Conference in Singapore in June 2009. Her paper, titled Global and National Imaginings: International Baccalaureate English Curriculum Documents and the Construction of Student Subjectivities in the Singapore Context springs from her dissertation work. It examines how the IB English curriculum projects international imagings and individual subjectivities, specifically in the context of the curriculum practices of one IB school in Singapore.

Suzanne Levine will present a paper titled, "Data in Search of a Theory: A Dual Coding Theory Analysis of Elementary Teachers' Science Learning" at the National Association for Research in Science Teaching annual meeting in Garden Grove, CA, April 19, 2009. This research study culminates in the synthesis of Dual Coding Theory model of teacher pedagogical content knowledge in science.

2008
Melody Nadeau presented her paper entitled, “Advice-giving in the English Lingua Franca Classroom” at the ICCling Conference (Intercultural Communication and Linguistics) in Stellenbosch, South Africa in January 2008.

Linda Baker, Chin Ee Loh, Renee Banzhaf, along with Kristen Campbell Wilcox presented their work titled, “A close look at three settings” in a panel discussion at the Writing Research Across Borders Conference which was held at the University of California, Santa Barbara, February 22 - 24, 2008. This presentation examined case studies of six different schools in three districts to paint diverse portraits of writing across the curriculum in three very different school settings.

Sedef Uzuner presented her work “Periphery scholars and their publication practices” at the annual American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Conference in Washington, DC, March 29 to April 1, 2008. Sedef’s paper addressed the following questions by looking at the publication practices of four Western-trained Turkish TESOL scholars: What happens to periphery scholars who earn doctorates in the West but choose an institutional base in the Developing World? What kind of engagement do they have with scholarly publishing upon their return?

Eric Gidseg presented his paper "Kindergarten teachers' experiences with accountability and academic pressure: Resistance, compliance, resilience" at the annual AERA meeting held in New York, NY, March 24-28, 2008. Eric's presentation was based on his dissertation research.

Chin Ee Loh presented her work titled “Multicultural Texts in Contexts: Comparing the Use of Multicultural Texts in the Literature Classroom in the United States and Singapore” at the International Reading Association World Congress in San Jose, Costa Rica, July 28-30, 2008. Chin Ee’s presentation compared recent scholarship, research, policy and practice in the use of “multicultural” texts in two very different, self-proclaimed multicultural countries, the U.S. and Singapore. It explored the contextualization of “multicultural” in these two different contexts, and described both common ground as well as differences in the implementation of a “multicultural” policy and practice in Literature classrooms.

Ruchi Mehta presented her paper titled, "Academic Value of Discourse in Online Environments" at the 24th Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning in Madison, Wisconsin, August 5-8, 2008. Ruchi's presentation was a synthesis of literature on conversations in online environments while examining them for their academic value.

Deniz Ortactepe attended a conference organized by the European Second Language Association (EUROSLA), which is one of the most respectful societies in the field of English language teaching. This year Université de Provence hosted the 18th of this conference in Aix-en-Provence from 10 to 13 September, 2008. Deniz's presentation was titled, "Effects of an Inservice Education Program on EFL Teachers Efficacy and Practice".

Deniz also presented her paper titled, "Turkish Students' Social and Linguistic Behaviour at a Reception at a U.S. University" at the 1st North American Workshop on Pragmatics, which was held at Glendon College, Toronto, October 3-5, 2008. Deniz's paper was a study she conducted under the supervision of Dr. Istvan Kecskes.

Wendy Niefeld Wheeler presented her paper titled, "Parents as Prevention Specialists: A New Paradigm for Alcohol Education" at the conference of College Student Personnel Association (CSPA) of NYS in Rochester, NY, October 5th-7th, 2008. Wendy's presentation introduced a new paradigm for alcohol education. This new paradigm capitalizes on the unique position that today's parents of college students find themselves in as "prevention specialists" and uses the "parents as partners" philosophy as the foundation for engaging parents as part of a multi-dimensional alcohol education program.

Sedef Uzuner presented her paper titled, “Multilingual scholars’ participation in core/global communities: A review of the literature” at the annual Second Language Research Forum (SLRF) conference held at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, October 17th-19th, 2008. Sedef’s paper presented a review of 35 empirical studies that investigated multilingual scholars’ international publication practices.

Anna Marie A. Bonafide, a doctoral student in ETAP, who is also a curriculum content specialist and English teacher at Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk Senior High School, presented her study entitled: One Teacher's Effective Strategies for Elementary Remedial Literacy Instruction and its implications for secondary learners at the New York State English Council Conference in October 2008 in Albany. Anna Marie was also a reviewer for the latest edition of the New York State English Council's publication, The Record: The Teacher-Researcher: Bringing the Teacher Back Into the Conversation.

Chin Ee Loh presented her paper The Cognitive Potential of Writing in the English Language Arts Classroom at the Asia-Pacific Educational Research Association Conference, held at the National Institute of Education in Singapore from November 26-28, 2008. The paper was based on her work with the National Study of Writing Instruction study and examined how writing tasks in the English Language Arts classroom can act as scaffolds to facilitate learning.

2007
Anna Marie Bonafide presented her paper entitled "Strategies for Academic Intervention Services for At Risk ELA Students" at the New York State English Council's Fall Conference, November 2007.

Publications

Melody Hallenbeck Nadeau's article "Advice-giving in the English Lingua Franca Classroom" is accepted for publication in the Stellenbosch (South Africa) Papers in Linguistics Journal. The article is about classroom interaction in adult ESL classes taught by NNESTs (Non-native English Speaking Teachers) thus, ELF classrooms, specifically looking at advice-giving forms and empathy between all participants in the classroom community.

Sedef Uzuner's paper, "Multilingual scholars' participation in core-global academic communities: A literature review" is published in the October 2008 issue of the Journal of English for Academic Purposes. The paper presents a review of 39 empirical studies that investigated multilingual scholars' participation in core/global academic communities through article and research publication.

Virginia Yonkers has published her book chapter "Replicating Business Education Programs in Emerging Countries" in I. Alon and J. McIntyre (Eds) Business Education and Emerging Market Economies: Perspectives and Best Practices. Kluwer, 2004. Kluwer, 2004.

Sedef Uzuner’s paper “Educationally Valuable Talk: A New Concept for Determining the Quality of Online Conversations” is published in the Winter 2007 issue of the Journal of Online Learning and Teaching. In this paper, based on the tenets of constructivist learning as well as the notion of “exploratory talk”, Sedef discusses two distinct types of talk: educationally valuable talk (EVT) and educationally less valuable talk (ELVT). The full text is available at http://jolt.merlot.org/vol3no4/uzuner.htm.

Eric Gidseg, a recent doctoral graduate in our Department, along with Miriam B. Raider-Roth, Marta K. Albert, Ingrid Bircann-Barkey and Terry Murray have co-authored an article entitled "Teaching Boys: A Relational Puzzle" that appeared in the February 2008 issue of the Teachers College Record.

Catherine Snyder published her article "Sharpening Citizenship Skills through Electronic Discussion" in the April 2008 issue of the Social Education magazine. Catherine is also a clinical assistant professor and associate dean of the School of Education at Union Graduate College, Schenectady, NY, and a National Board Certified teacher with 10 years of public school teaching experience. Her areas of research interest are civic education, the National Board for Professional Teaching, and pre-service teacher education. She can be reached at snyderc@uniongraduatecollege.edu.

Jennifer Rosenthal's annotated bibliography is added to PEEC (Placed-based Education Evaluation Collaborative website. Jen's bibliography is available at http://www.peecworks.org/PEEC/PEEC_Gen/02E46448-007EA7AB.0

Awards

Deniz Ortactepe won the Teaching Portfolio Aware offered by the Institute of Teaching, Learning and Academic Leadership (ITLAL) at the University at Albany. At the SKILL Conference organized by ITLAL on March 21, 2009, Deniz not only received her award but also was one of the panelists in the panel discussion on composing teaching portfolios.

Suzanne Hayes received the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Professional Service at Empire State College where she is the Director of Library and Instructional Services in the Center for Learning and Technology.

Stephen R. Klingaman, ETAP Ph.D. student, has been awarded the First Annual Writing Across the Curriculum Award at SUNY Morrisville State College for his innovative deployment of poetry writing assignments to teach technical concepts related to Internet routing protocols.