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Conference Registration Now Online
|  The TexTESOLV Fall Conference will be held on Saturday, October 2, 2010 at Mansfield Timberview High School. "Breaking Barriers With ESL: English Language Proficiency For All" is the conference theme.
Keynote speaker is Dr. Nonie Lesaux, noted Harvard reseacher specializing in brain research for language learners. This engaging speaker is not to be missed!
Registration fee is only $65 and includes breakfast and lunch.
Copy and paste the following address into your browser to register online.
http://www.acteva.com/go/tt5
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Keynote Speaker at Fall Conference Announced
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Nonie K. Lesaux, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education Her research and teaching focuses on reading development and preventing reading difficulties of children from linguistically diverse backgrounds. From 2002-2006, Dr. Lesaux was Senior Research Associate of the National Literacy Panel on Language Minority Youth and in 2007 was named one of five WT Grant scholars in support of her research on English-language learners in urban public schools. In 2009, Dr. Lesaux received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor given by the United States government to young professionals beginning their independent research careers.
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Russian students enrolled in Hockaday program catch glimpse of life in the U.S.
|  TexTESOLV's partnership with TESOL in Yakut, Russia fostered another connection as students came to Dallas to attend summer classes at Hockaday School. The full story from the Dallas Morning News is below.
12:00 AM CDT on Monday, July 12, 2010
By ANANDA BOARDMAN / The Dallas Morning News
aboardman@dallasnews.com
Eight students from Yakutsk, Russia, are studying at the Hockaday School as the first foreign group to attend a summer session at the private girls' school.
Yakutsk is located near the Arctic Circle and is one of the coldest inhabitable places in the world.
"It was exhausting, but it's worth coming here," said 16-year-old Dasha Ludina of the six days it took to travel to Dallas.
The students arrived to a hot Texas summer on June 15 and will return home Friday.
"It's a very good chance for our students to learn English, to learn about the culture and traditions of the United States of America and make friends," said Marina Protopopova, who teaches English in Yakutsk and accompanied the children on the trip.
Nicole Carlson, director of summer session residents, said the school has integrated the Yakutsk students into their summer program, along with 21 other international students studying at Hockaday this summer.
The idea came about after Elizabeth Smith, director of English for speakers of other languages at Hockaday, spent two weeks in Yakutsk last summer to teach English.
Smith stayed in touch with her Russian students and over the course of a year planned a trip to bring the Russian students to the U.S. through Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages Inc. Their parents paid for the cost of the trip.
"I was extremely excited ... my mother told me I was going to Hockaday last winter and I didn't believe it," Dasha said.
The students take two English for speakers of other languages classes in the morning, and an elective class such as yoga, ceramics or dance during the afternoon. The first few weeks of the trip focused on the differences between the U.S. and Russian cultures; the second half is called "Discovering Dallas."
"I was very happy because to go to U.S.A. was my wish, my dream," said 14-year-old Masha Byuraeva. "Here, people are different, more happy, more easy."
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New Orleans to Host 2011 TESOL Convention
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The 45th Annual TESOL Convention and Exhibit will be held in New Orleans, Louisiana in the United States. The convention will take place March 17–19, 2011; with the opening plenary taking place on the evening of March 16, in the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center & the Hilton New Orleans Riverside Hotel.
Registration opens on November 17, 2010 for members and on December 1, 2010 for non-members.
More information is available at www.tesol.org
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Don Weasenforth 2009 TexTESOLer of the Year
|  Don Weasenforth has profoundly influenced the direction of TexTESOL V since he joined the affiliate in 2003. He has served on the Board as the Newsletter co-editor, the President-elect, President, and Past President. In addition, he served as the Publicity/Marketing Committee Chair for the 2005 TexTESOL State Convention and, most recently, as the Conference Chair for the 2008 TexTESOL State Convention.
On an international level, Don has increased the affiliate’s visibility in several ways. First, he has forged a sister-affiliate relationship between TexTESOL V and Yakut TESOL of Russia. (He served as Invited Lecturer for the Yakut TESOL Summer Institute in 2008 and 2009.) Second, Don’s vision for TexTESOL has led to our agreement with TESOL International to host the convention in Dallas-Ft. Worth in 2013.
Today Don works at Collin College where he teaches ESL courses and English 1301. His research interests focus on technology and language acquisition as well as discourse grammar and editing strategies.
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Helpful Links
| Center for Applied Linguistics
CALnews October 15, 2009 http://www.cal.org/about/calnews/101509.html
CALnews November 10, 2009 http://www.cal.org/about/calnews/111009.htm
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Created on 02/04/2003 10:24 AM by admin
Updated on 09/03/2010 08:38 AM by cindybrennan
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