Conference Presentations

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.

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 will be attending 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 hosts the 18th of this conference in Aix-en-Provence from 10 to 13 September, 2008. Deniz's presentation is titled, "Effects of an Inservice Education Program on EFL Teachers Efficacy and Practice".

Deniz will also be presenting 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 will be held at Glendon College, Toronto, October 3-5, 2008. Deniz's paper is about a study she conducted under the supervision of Dr. Istvan Kecskes.

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

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

Publications

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