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DOCUMENT RESUME ED 289 350 FL 017 064 TITLE TESOL Newsletter, Vol. 20, 1986. INfTITUTION Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages. PUB DATE 86 NOTE 197p. PUB TYPE Collected Works - Serials (022) JOURNAL CIT TESOL Newsletter; v20 n1-6 Feb-Dec 1986 EDRS PRICE MF01/PC08 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS *Classroom Techniques; Cloza Procedure; Computer Assisted Instruction; CoMputer Software; Courseware; Culture Conflict; Developing Nations; *English (Second Language); Enrollment Projections; Foreign Countries; Foreign Students; Library Collections; Listening Comprehension; Masters Degreas; Newsletters; Open Universities; Part Time Faculty; Professional Associations; Questioning Techniques; Radio; Reading Rate; Religion; Second Language Instruction; Self Evaluation (Groups); Student Rights; Teaching Assistants; Writing Instruction ABSTRACT The 1986 volume of the Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) newsletter includes articles on computer-assisted language learning; writing instruction; international teaching of English as a second language (ESL); computer software and courseware; learners' rights; Islam in the ESL classroom; English for international teaching assistants; reform in English teaching in Egypt; intensive English enrollment forecasting; ESL in the developing world; listening comprehension instruction; part-time teaching issues; cloze procedure; library collections for ESL; increasing reading rates; teaching reciprocal questioning; word processing in ESL composition; program self-evaluation; amateur radio and ESL; master's degrees and ESL teaching; communicative writing for overcoming cultural barriers; and teaching in an open university overseas. Professional annouicements, association notes, book and materials reviews, ard notes on successful teaching techniques are also included. (MSE) *********************************************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. *********************************************************************** "PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE THIS MATERIAL-HAS BEEN GRANTED BY 7-1403kt t( TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC)." U S DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Of of Educational Research and Improvement EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) Mhis document has been reproducedas eceived from the person or organization originating it O Minor changes have been made to improve reproduction quality Points of view of op wons stated in this docu- ment do not necessanly represent official ERI Mon or policy Vol. XX No.1' Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages February 1986 ,LC1 USIA/Macmillan to Produce Series: te English. Language Teaching by Broadest 0' co OL On Friday, December 13, 1985, Director and in broadcast media fro... around the world, Charles Z. Wick of the United States Informa-set up three major tasks: 1) to define and refine rev tion Agency (USIA) signed a cooperativethe goals of the project; 2) to establish the agreement with Macmillan Publishing- Coin- format of the basic television series; and 3) to P pany to produce the long-awaited Englishmake recommendations for radio and supple- W. Language Teaching by Broadcast series. mentary print materials. As reported in the April 1984 issue of the Once those tasks were accomplished and TESOL Newsletter, a grant of approximatelymaterials were reviewed, the USIA sent out a $260,000 had been awarded to TESOL by the request for proposals, with the result that the Hawaii Hosts 1986 USIA to conduct a background study in Macmillan Publishing Company was selected preparation for producing such a series. This to produce the series. Summer Institute grant enabled USIA and TESOL to complete a "Your advice and wise counsel were invalu- world-wide survey of English language needs able in helping me to arrive at the decision to by Kathleen M. Bailey and broadcast facilities as a necessary prelimi-proceed with this major effort" wrote USIA nary step. A four-person research team visited Director Wiok to TESOL's Executive Director The first TESOL Summer Institute was heldColombia, Brazil, Senegal, Togo, Germany, in 1979 at the University of California, Los James E. Alatis. Angeles, following the model of summerTunisia, Turkey, Pakistan, Indonesia and Korea The target date for release of the first 13 during the survey period. Their findings were television .programs, 26 radio programs, stu- institutes offered by the Linguistic Society ofpresented at a conference organized by America. Since that time, the TESOL Summer dent texts, workbooks, and supplementary TESOL and held February 29-March 2, 1984 atreadings, as well as video and audio cassettes, Institute has been hosted by the University of Glen Cove, New York. This conference, at- and teacher aids is April 1988. Regional New Mexico (1980), Teachers College, Colum- tended by experts in English language teaching bia University (1981), a consortium consisting adaptations should follow shortly thereafter. of the University of Chicago, Northeastern Illinois University, Northwestern Uniwersity,the program, since it embodies the color and INSIDE and the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle the beauty of Hawaii, as well as the diversity of Special Supplement on CALL (1982), the University of Toronto and tileperspectives found in the TESOL profession. Guest Editor Irene Dutra Ontario Institute for Studies in Education That diversity is represented in classes ranging (1983), Oregon State University (1984), andfrom core courses in teaching the four skills, Affiliate/LS. News ....9 Job Opening 21 Georgetown University (1985). Over twobilingual education, language testing, and Conferences/Calls ...7 Miniscules 19 thousand participantsteachers, aides, stu-phonology and grammar for teachers, to Int'l Exchange 11 President's Note 2 dents, and researchers from all parts of the seminars on innovative methods, communica- It Works 20 Reviews 17 globehave attended and contributed to thesetive language teaching, content-based instruc- programs. tion, English for specific purposes, and the use TESOL new :tens, pages 3, 4,18, 19 of authentic language in teaching; research Other news items, pages 4, 5,18 A Rainbow of Perspectives in TESOL seminars including language universals, lan- The 1986 TESOL Summer Institute will beguage transfer, research methods, psycholin- Activities that =courage 'earners, by J. Gex, page 15 Reports: ISRATESOUETAI conference, by E. Olshtain, hosted by the ESL Department at the Univer- guistics, interlanguage studies, research metho- page 13 sity of Hawaii at Manoa. The theme of thedology, second language acquisition, socio- CLEAR seminar, by E Hatch, page 14 Instituteis A Rainbow of Perspectives inlinguistics, and classroom-centered research; Paterson Bilingual/ESL conference, by N. TESOL. In ancient Hawaiian legend, there is a and more unusual offerings, such as "Pidgin Bailey, page 16 tradition that when a rainbow appeared,and Creole English in Hawaii," "Language something important was about to happen, and Education and the Deaf," and "ESL Program exchange of ideas outside the parameters of this indeed is the case. The 1986 program will Administration." regularly scheduled class meetings. These carry on the tradition of previous summer In addition to these three- and six-weekprofessional activities, coupled with the beauty institutes in bringing together a varlet)of courses, the 1986 TESOL Summer Institute will and diversity of Hawaii, promise to make the students and scholars to exchange researchinclude the Forum Lecture Series, a special 1988 TESOL Summer Institute a program to findings, materials, and teaching ideas. Fur-non-credit workshop program, a two-dayremember. For further information, write to thermore, given its geographic location, thiscolloquium on pidgins and creoles focusing onPamela Pine, Assistant Director, 1986 TESOL year's institute will be accessible to EFL their implications for language education andSummer Institute, c/o ESL Department, teachers throughout the Pacific Basin. research, Occasional Papers, and FridayUniversity of Hawaii, 1890 East West Road, The rainbow is an appropriate emblem forSessions, all of which will promote the Honolulu, Hawaii 96822, U.S.A. BEST 'copy AVAILABLE t' 2 Pteaded4 Itor4 to teeWafele44 Susanna Moodie was an upper class English dialect and the cultural behaviours associated woman who emigrated to Canada in 1832,with it. I could work at helping them reduce the settling on a remote bush farm with hernumber of occasions on which prediction husband. Not much in her education had would fail them. I could provide a protective prepared her to face life as a pioneer. Herenvironment within my programs to keep the alienation from, and distaste for, the people worst of the 'drizzle' off them. I could let them and situations with which she was obliged toknow that I appreciated the reasons why they deal are unconcealed in the books she wrotemight be 'tentative'.I could applaud their about her experiencesRoughing it in the Bush resolution when they refused to be like putty in and Life in the Clearings. my hands and instead provided evidence of Though interesting historically and compell- their personal integrity by being 'hard to ing because of the force of the author's startle'. personality, her books are by no means literary Hopefully, neither you nor your students will works of art. To my mind, Margaret Atwood'sneed 'First Neighbours' too often, either as a collection of poems, The Journals of Susanna reminder or as