Session 6 Workshops

Session 6 Workshops 04:05 - 4:45 pm

1. Make Room, Millennials! Leveraging the Gen X ESL Learners’ Potential with Digital Storytelling (LeChase 103)

Dinara Yeung Gilmanova (dyeunggilmanova@lagcc.cuny.edu)

The Center for Immigrant Education and Training (CIET)

The U.S. is getting increasingly technologized challenging its most vulnerable population—the generation X ESL learners. Therefore, the ESL teachers must support the older adult ESL learning population in its acquisition of digital literacy. One way of facilitating the older adult ESL learners’ digital enlightenment is by implementing digital storytelling.

2. Using English Language Learners Feedback to Improve Reading Skills and Instruction (LeChase 104)

Dr. Maryann Hasso (maryann_hasso@hotmail.com)

Cal Poly Pomona

Low reading engagement skills of English language learner students is a barrier to academic progress. This presentation explores perceptions of ELLs regarding reading instructional strategies and support to determine what practices may encourage increased engagement. Feedback from students is used to measure whether reading instruction is meeting their needs.

3. ESL Teacher Identity Studies in the Digital Era: Review and Future Research Directions (LeChase 148)

Ting Zhang (jentina17@hotmail.com)

Warner School, University of Rochester

In ESL classrooms, contested values and literacy practices may emerge, which raises the question of how ESL teachers position themselves and handle students’ different perspectives and practices. In this literature review, I discuss the main issues associated with ESL teacher identity and implications of the digital age for identity studies.

4. Tell me What it Means! Strategies for Introducing New Vocabulary (LeChase 160)

Raju Srinivasan (rajusrinivasan00@gmail.com)

CUNY Hunter College

When pre-teaching new vocabulary, is more important to provide students with a dictionary definition, or for students to make their connection to form, meaning and use? This workshop will aim to provide ESL teachers strategies for pre-assessing their students’ prior knowledge of new vocabulary words and phrases through content-based learning.