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EAP Support for graduate students

EAP Support for graduate students. Challenges and Successes Chris Feak , University of Michigan, USA Nigel Caplan , University of Delaware, USA. What works for your ESL graduate students?. Stanford: comprehensive orientation for graduate students; workshops through the year

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EAP Support for graduate students

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  1. EAP Support for graduate students Challenges and Successes Chris Feak, University of Michigan, USA Nigel Caplan, University of Delaware, USA

  2. What works for your ESL graduate students? • Stanford: comprehensive orientation for graduate students; workshops through the year • Discipline-specific courses (e.g. Bio and Chem together); required elective based on advisement • Faculty requesting extra support for international/ESL students; faculty don’t feel they know how to help students – COLLABORATION!! • Matriculated graduate students required to have a mentor in their program (advisor, senior member of the dept) – read papers for content. Liaison with department • Writing across the curriculum approach with trained TAs and adjuncts • Dissertation boot camps; faculty workshops; time management; goal setting

  3. What works (continued) • Pre-sessional courses (preparing for academic life; discipline-specific courses) • Individual tutors for writing (ESL experts; other models include ELI faculty and graduate student tutors; also writing experts from the fields) • Writing groups • Mentoring faculty to work with MLWs

  4. When, where, why, and how do they need support?

  5. How does technology support your teaching? • Online writing tutoring • Typing/word processing skills! Formatting • Videos/tutorials for distance learning • Distance learning office – start with learning outcome not with technological tools • Library modules on conducting research; one-on-one teaching • Blogs to create community and encourage response—authentic readers; blog about quotations about writing; how to paraphrase; responses as pre-writing • Discussion boards • Chime In (chimeincloud.com)– questions about reading; extracts keywords • Socrative (like a clicker on a cell phone)

  6. What doesn’t work?

  7. What professional support do you need? • IEP/EAP: more support from graduate departments (mixed messages; pressure to matriculate students vs need for more language support) • Community among US! “Help, I’m the only ESL specialist for miles around.” Support with the politics of graduate school. Ongoing conversation with other graduate educators. • Increased visibility – faculty + admins need to know to come to us for our L2/writing expertise • Needs analysis • Status of language teachers

  8. Other grad sessions at TESOL • Today, 4:00-4:45pm, room B115. Chris: “Using Bio-Statements to Promote Insight into Audience, Purpose, and Strategy” (publisher session for AWG) • Saturday, 9:30-10:45am, room PB255. Chris and Nigel: "Who are our graduate writers? What do they really need?” (invited paper) • Saturday, 1:00-2:45pm, room B115. Nigel Caplan, Silvia Pessoa, Ryan Miller, & Kyung-HeeBae: "Disciplinary differences, disciplinary genres"(colloquium) • Anything else I’ve missed?

  9. Keep in touch! Join the Graduate Educators’ Roundtable! gradroundtable-subscribe@yahoogroups.com (informal meeting after today’s session) PowerPoints and References: http://nigelteacher.wordpress.com/tesol2014 Chris Feak Nigel Caplancfeak@umich.edunacaplan@udel.edu

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