1.
Participants REGISTER for Electronic
Village Online (EVO) 2005
Sessions:
Monday, January 3 -
Sunday, January
16, 2005 [2 weeks]
2. EVO 2005 SESSIONS:
Monday,
January 17 -
Sunday, February
27, 2005 [6
weeks]
3. TESOL Convention 2005, San Antonio, TX: Wednesday, March 30
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Saturday, April 3, 2005; possible meetings of EVO session
leaders and
participants. An Internet Fair
session will be held at the CALL IS Electronic Village, TBA.
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TO CONTACT THE
EVO COORDINATING TEAM
(In your mailer, insert @yahoo.com after any address)
Elizabeth
Hanson-Smith, Computers
for Education/Command Performance Language Institute, Sacramento,
CA
<ehansonsmi at yahoo.com>
Vance Stevens, Petroleum Institute, Abu
Dhabi,
UAE
<vance stevens at yahoo.com>
Dafne González, Universidad Simon
Bolivar,
Caracas, Venezuela
<dygonza at yahoo.com>
Chris Jones, Arizona Western College,
Yuma, AZ
<edtec2002 at yahoo.com>
María Jordano de la Torre, University
of
Castilla la Mancha, Toledo, Spain
<maria_jordano at yahoo.es>
Aiden Yeh, Wenzao
Ursuline College of Languages, Taiwan
<aidenyeh at yahoo.com>
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The CALL Interest Section of the international TESOL association offers
ISs and Caucuses the opportunity to participate in the Electronic
Village Online (EVO), a professional development project and virtual
extension of the TESOL 2005 Convention in San Antonio, Texas. The
intended audience for this project includes both TESOL 2005
participants and those who can participate only virtually. You do not
need to be a TESOL member to participate in theSign up for this session
Electronic Village
Online.
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Copyright@EVOnline Coordinating
Team. Created 11/16/2004, E Hanson-Smith & A Yeh
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THE EV ONLINE SESSIONS
For six
weeks, participants and ESOL experts can engage in
collaborative, online discussion sessions or hands-on virtual workshops
of professional and scholarly benefit. These sessions will bring
together participants for a longer period of time than is permitted by
the four-day convention and will allow a fuller development of ideas
than is otherwise possible. The sessions are free
and open to all interested parties. You do not need to be a TESOL
member to participate.
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Sign up for this
session at the site below.
We recommend that you take no more than 2 sessions.
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English (EFL) Across the Curriculum
This
Session is sponsored by the Higher Education IS of TESOL
Moderators:
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Michael Morrissey, Japan
María Jordano de la Torre, Spain
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Target
Audience
All interested educators, instructors, supervisors, ESP teachers, and
teachers, particularly (but not exclusively) at the tertiary level.
Content
Description
Building on the concepts of whole language, Fluency First,
content-based EAP/ESP, CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning),
bilingual education, Writing Across the Curriculum, and (Foreign)
Language(s) Across the Curriculum, all of which have been
enthusiastically implemented in a variety of institutional settings,
this six-week collaborative online discussion session will attempt to
identify what works and what doesn't, and what is possible and what
isn't within the various curricular frameworks represented by
participants. The focus will be on tertiary institutions
operating with EFL learners at proficiency levels of B2 (ACTFL
Advanced) and above, but participation by everyone is welcome.
Week by Week
Outline
Week I -
Introduction
Self-introductions: your institutional situation, level and
career goals of your students, main obstacles and disadvantages you may
find with dealing with this kind of teaching, etc.
Week II - The status quo
Describe the situation of EFL students at your institution, and what
you see as the problems and possibilities for improvement.
Week III -
Content and language
To what extent, and how, is "content" (i.e., what students are enrolled
at your institution to study, apart from English) integrated with
"language" courses? How do you see the possibilities of changing
this situation, and how would you propose to do it?
Week IV - Models
of Student Writing and Speaking
Here we want to share as many concrete examples as we can of student
writing to illustrate the kinds of products and processes that
content-based instruction aims for. Depending on the number of
participants, these could be divided into subject subgroups (e.g.,
literature, education, linguistics, area studies, natural sciences,
business, etc.)
Week V -
Assessment
What are the problems raised by the current assessment methods used at
your institution? How could they be solved? How do you
envision a fair, accurate, and transparent assessment mechanism?
How would they take "content" into account?
Week VI -
Conclusion
What conclusions have you come to as a result of this discussion?
Communication
Media
* Yahoo group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/efl_curriculum/
* Pal talk: http://www.paltalk.com/PalTalkSite/download.html
* Website: http://www.eflcurriculum.bravehost.com/
To join this group
go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/efl_curriculum/
and
click on 
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