Faculty members and graduate students in the Intensive English Program at West Virginia University will be among the presenters at TESOL 2005 , the 39th annual conference for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages.

The conference will be held March 30-April 2 at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio, Texas. The theme is”Teaching Learning, Learning Teaching: A Nexus in Texas.”

More than 7,000 English language teachers, applied linguists and language researchers from 113 countries have been invited.

Program director Dr. Helen Huntley will attend with graduate teaching assistants Sandy Miller of Morgantown, Anna Cicala of Shepherdstown, Lesley Morgan of Radford, Va., and Teresa Neves-Seesink, also of Morgantown.

Miller, Cicala and Morgan are graduate teaching assistants in the Intensive English Program. Neves-Seesink is a Ph.D. candidate in technology education and a graduate teaching assistant in WVU ’s Social Justice Program.

The quartet will be busy during the conference:

• Huntley will serve on a vocabulary authors’panel with colleagues from the University of North Texas, Central Florida University and New Zealand’s Massey University.

• Huntley and Miller, along with Lynn Schaefer of the University of Central Arkansas, will lead a discussion group on why language teachers should never stop being language learners.

• Huntley and Neves-Seesink will also present the paper,Practical Collocation Activities for Academic Vocabulary.Huntley and Dara Shaw of the Jefferson County, W.Va., public school system will participate in a poster session on academic vocabulary.

• Cicala and Morgan will presentFun Fixes for the Quiz Blues,a graduate forum paper and session that will illustrate different, innovative ways of checking reading comprehension besides using traditional quizzes.

This is an important conference for us,Huntley said.Its and a wonderful opportunity for WVU and our students to gain international recognition.

The Intensive English Program is housed in the Department of Foreign Languages, a unit of WVU ’s Eberly College of Arts and Sciences. It was founded in 1979 and turns 25 this year.

It was designed to assist international students who need to improve their English proficiency. Students also receive advice and counseling on college life particulars, from housing to legal concerns. For more information, call Huntley at 293-3604 or hhuntley@mail.wvu.edu .

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Faculty members and graduate students in the Intensive English Program at West Virginia University will be among the presenters at TESOL 2005 , the 39th annual conference for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages.

The conference will be held March 30-April 2 at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio, Texas. The theme is”Teaching Learning, Learning Teaching: A Nexus in Texas.”

More than 7,000 English language teachers, applied linguists and language researchers from 113 countries have been invited.

Program director Dr. Helen Huntley will attend with graduate teaching assistants Sandy Miller of Morgantown, Anna Cicala of Shepherdstown, Lesley Morgan of Radford, Va., and Teresa Neves-Seesink, also of Morgantown.

Miller, Cicala and Morgan are graduate teaching assistants in the Intensive English Program. Neves-Seesink is a Ph.D. candidate in technology education and a graduate teaching assistant in WVU ’s Social Justice Program.

The quartet will be busy during the conference:

• Huntley will serve on a vocabulary authors’panel with colleagues from the University of North Texas, Central Florida University and New Zealand’s Massey University.

• Huntley and Miller, along with Lynn Schaefer of the University of Central Arkansas, will lead a discussion group on why language teachers should never stop being language learners.

• Huntley and Neves-Seesink will also present the paper,Practical Collocation Activities for Academic Vocabulary.Huntley and Dara Shaw of the Jefferson County, W.Va., public school system will participate in a poster session on academic vocabulary.

• Cicala and Morgan will presentFun Fixes for the Quiz Blues,a graduate forum paper and session that will illustrate different, innovative ways of checking reading comprehension besides using traditional quizzes.

This is an important conference for us,Huntley said.Its and a wonderful opportunity for WVU and our students to gain international recognition.

The Intensive English Program is housed in the Department of Foreign Languages, a unit of WVU ’s Eberly College of Arts and Sciences. It was founded in 1979 and turns 25 this year.

It was designed to assist international students who need to improve their English proficiency. Students also receive advice and counseling on college life particulars, from housing to legal concerns. For more information, call Huntley at 293-3604 or hhuntley@mail.wvu.edu .

jd/1/12/05

Faculty members and graduate students in the Intensive English Program at West Virginia University will be among the presenters at TESOL 2005 , the 39th annual conference for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages.

The conference will be held March 30-April 2 at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio, Texas. The theme is”Teaching Learning, Learning Teaching: A Nexus in Texas.”

More than 7,000 English language teachers, applied linguists and language researchers from 113 countries have been invited.

Program director Dr. Helen Huntley will attend with graduate teaching assistants Sandy Miller of Morgantown, Anna Cicala of Shepherdstown, Lesley Morgan of Radford, Va., and Teresa Neves-Seesink, also of Morgantown.

Miller, Cicala and Morgan are graduate teaching assistants in the Intensive English Program. Neves-Seesink is a Ph.D. candidate in technology education and a graduate teaching assistant in WVU ’s Social Justice Program.

The quartet will be busy during the conference:

• Huntley will serve on a vocabulary authors’panel with colleagues from the University of North Texas, Central Florida University and New Zealand’s Massey University.

• Huntley and Miller, along with Lynn Schaefer of the University of Central Arkansas, will lead a discussion group on why language teachers should never stop being language learners.

• Huntley and Neves-Seesink will also present the paper,Practical Collocation Activities for Academic Vocabulary.Huntley and Dara Shaw of the Jefferson County, W.Va., public school system will participate in a poster session on academic vocabulary.

• Cicala and Morgan will presentFun Fixes for the Quiz Blues,a graduate forum paper and session that will illustrate different, innovative ways of checking reading comprehension besides using traditional quizzes.

This is an important conference for us,Huntley said.Its and a wonderful opportunity for WVU and our students to gain international recognitiontensive English Program is housed in the Department of Foreign Languages, a unit of WVU ’s Eberly College of Arts and Sciences. It was founded in 1979 and turns 25 this year.

It was designed to assist international students who need to improve their English proficiency. Students also receive advice and counseling on college life particulars, from housing to legal concerns. For more information, call Huntley at 293-3604 or hhuntley@mail.wvu.edu .