TIMELINE
1.
Participants REGISTER for
the Electronic Village Online (EVO) 2006
Sessions during the 2-week period:
- Monday, January 1 -
- Sunday January 15, 2006
2. EVO
2005 SESSIONS run for 6 weeks:
- Sunday, January 16 - Sunday, February
26, 2006
3. TESOL Convention 2006, Tampa Bay, FL, runs Wednesday, March 15
-
Saturday, March 18, 2006. There will be meetings with and
demonstrations by EVO session
leaders and
participants. An Internet Fair session
will be held at the
CALL IS Electronic
Village, TBA.
Several events in
the
convention's Electronic Village will be synchronously Webcast by WorldBridges (Skype: worldbridges)
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CONTACT THE
ELECTRONIC VILLAGE ONLINE COORDINATION TEAM
In your mailer, be sure to remove the spaces in the address.
For
queries about specific
EVO sessions, please contact the moderator of the session
directly.
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Elizabeth
Hanson-Smith, Computers
for Education/Command Performance Language Institute, Sacramento,
CA, USA
<ehansonsmi@yahoo.com>
Dafne
González, Universidad
Simón
Bolivar,
Caracas, Venezuela
<dygonza @ yahoo.com>
Chris
Jones, Arizona Western College, Yuma,
AZ, USA
<edtec2002 @ yahoo.com> Aiden Yeh, Wenzao
Ursuline College of Languages, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
<aidenyeh @ yahoo.com>
Buthaina
al-Othman, Kuwait University,
Kuwait City
<buthaina_3 @ yahoo.com>
Maryanne
Burgos,
Maryland, USA
<maryanneburgos @
yahoo.com>
Susan
Marandi, Al-Zahra University, Teheran, Iran
<susanmarandi @
yahoo.com>
Nicolas
Gromik, Tohoku University,
Sendai, Japan
<gromik_tohoku @
yahoo.com.au>
Vance Stevens, Petroleum Institute, Abu-Dhabi, UAE
<vstevens @
emirates.net.ae>
Christine
Bauer-Ramazani, St. Michael's College,
Colchester, VT, USA
<cbauer-ramazani @
smcvt.edu>
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To find
out more about TESOL's Online Teaching Certificate Program (the
foundation course begins January 16), go to TESOL and click on >PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT and then >ONLINE EDUCATION, or e-mail edprograms@tesol.org.
(EVO is not a part of
the OTCP.)
The CALL
Interest Section of the
international TESOL professional association offers the opportunity to
participate in the Electronic
Village Online (EVO), a professional development project and virtual
extension of the TESOL 2006 Convention in Tampa Bay, FL. The
intended audience for this project includes both TESOL 2006
participants and those who can participate only virtually.
You
do not
need to be a TESOL member to participate in sessions of the
Electronic Village
Online.
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Copyright
© EVO Coordination
Team , 11/28/2005
E Hanson-Smith & A Yeh
Some
graphics copyright free from buttongenerator.com
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----> Sign up at this
session site directly after
January 1st.
Registration closes January 15.
Sessions run from January
16 to February 26.
We strongly recommend
that you sign up for no more than two sessions.
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Drama
in Second Language Acquisition
Discussion of theories that
support the
use of drama in SLA and drama activities supported by these theories.
During this six-week Electronic Village Online session, moderators and
participants will discuss the principle views of various second
language acquisition theorists, including Krashen (the monitor model),
Vygotsky (the interactionist approach), Pica, Schmidt, and others.
Participants will be encouraged to offer examples of activities and
practices that implement various aspects of the theories discussed.
Pictures, videos, and other multi-media material will be collected and
posted on a dedicated website to further demonstrate the actual form
and method of implementation of the activities.
Target
Audience
All ESOL teachers on the elementary,
secondary, and tertiary levels with an interest in drama. Participants
need the ability to upload material (with guidance) to a Website, and
post links and files to our Yahoo Group.
Weekly Content
- Week I –
Introductions, guidelines for the session, netiquette, posting of
participant pictures, general socializing: A virtual cocktail party.
Discussion and practice with the interface. Suggested readings: How Languages are Learned, Patsy
Lightbown and Nina Spada; Thought
and Language, Lev Vygotsky; Explorations
in Language Acquisition, Stephen Krashen; and Words into Words, Shin-Mei Kao and
Cecily O’Neill. Additional readings will be posted in the FILES area of
our YG and indicated in LINKS. A survey will be conducted to determine
who has materials to post and share with the group and in what format.
- Week II –
Participants offer their thoughts on the validity of various
theoretical approaches to language teaching. Additional SLA links and
files will be posted through input of participants. Participants will
describe particular activities and show how the activities implement
various theoretical approaches.
- Week III - From
the discussion of Week Two, major theories are selected, focused on,
and discussed in greater detail. Participants will be asked to
contribute further activities that support each major theoretical
position.
- Week IV -
Participants will be asked to contribute visual material in form of
pictures, video, or audio material that they have produced as examples
of how their activities are implemented. A dedicated web page will be
constructed to host the material and Marc Sheffner will be on hand to
explain the upload procedure for all materials.
- Week V - From
the material submitted during Week Four, discussion will focus on the
examples offered. Participants will describe their work and the theory
that supports the activity. Participants will also add their own ideas
regarding possible adaptations and/or extensions.
- Week VI -
Summation of main theoretical approaches and activities, conclusions,
and suggestions for further exploration. Evaluation of this EVO session.
Communication
Media - will consist of postings, links to relevant sites, and a
web page dedicated to audio-video drama projects.
About
the Moderators:
- Dr. Gary
B.Carkin is co-moderator of TESOL - Drama, and has
co-moderated the past two TESOL-Drama/EVO workshops. A professional
actor/director, he has taught acting and directing in Vietnam,
Thailand, England, and the U.S. He is a frequent presenter on
drama-related subjects at TESOL events regionally, nationally, and
internationally and is Professor of ESOL at the Institute for Language
Education at Southern New Hampshire University where he teaches SLA
Methodology, Pronunciation Techniques, drama, and culture studies.
- Judy
Trupin has been involved with all aspects of theater from
directing to writing to performing and stage managing. She has worked
as an artist in schools, and taught dance, yoga, and creative movement.
For six years, she was a frequent guest artist at Bajazzo, a school for
experimental theater in Italy. In the ESOL world, she has worked with
all levels of adult learners. Currently, she is the Special
Projects Coordinator for the Adult Learner Program of the Queens
Library in New York City.
Nigel A Caplan is the
co-moderator of TESOL-Drama, and has helped to lead three previous EVO
workshops on drama. He has presented at TESOL, MITESOL and Penn - TESOL
- East on drama, writing and literacy. He is an instructor at Michigan
State University's English Language Center and a member of a community
theatre group.
Marc
Sheffner (M.A., Oxon, French and German) came to Japan in
1980. He taught in junior and senior high schools then joined
Tezukayama University in Nara where he is now associate professor. He
became interested in autonomy in 1987, and later in drama for EFL.
To
join this session:
Go to the Drama in
SLA Yahoo Group:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EVO_Drama_2006
and click on the
blue button: 
To read about other
EVO sessions: 
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