Newsletter Story 4
“Faculty News Stories”
Jerry Gebhard has had two articles published in the most recent issue of Thai TESOL Forum, published by Thai TESOL, the national affiliate of International TESOL. The first is the feature article, “Teaching Students to Communicate Across Cultures: Concepts and Practical Ideas for the Classroom.” The second is titled “Action Research: The Cyclic Process” which Jerry wrote as a guest writer for this regular column.
In May Jerry was a public seminar guest speaker at Teachers College, Columbia University, Tokyo campus where he spoke on the topic “Exploring Our Teaching Through Action Research: Process, Examples, and Limitations.”
Gian Pagnucci recently learned some great news about an edited collection in which he is included. The book, Teaching Writing with Computers, was recently awarded the annual Computers and Composition Distinguished Book Award, the leading award in its field. The book includes Pagnucci’s chapter “Balancing Acts: Tightrope Walking Above an Ever-Changing (Inter)Net” which he co-wrote with C&T alumnus Nicholas Mauriello. One of the book’s co-editors, Brian Huot, is also a C&T alumnus.
Claude Mark Hurlbert has published an article, “’From Behind the Veil’: Teaching the Literature of the Enemy,” in Literature and Applied Linguistics: New Perspectives, a September special issue of Canadian Modern Language Review. This issue of CMLR is edited by David Hanauer.
Ben Rafoth chaired the IWCA-NCPTW Annual Conference in Hershey, Pennsylvania. The conference drew a record-breaking 950 people from around the U.S. and the world — writing center tutors, directors, composition faculty, college administrators, and exhibitors. The conference included over 125 concurrent sessions and was keynoted by Rebecca Moore Howard of Syracuse University. IUP’s Composition and TESOL Program and the IUP Graduate School sponsored the Thursday evening Chocolate Reception. Conference events also included a trip to Hershey Park and Chocolate World on Friday evening and a Night Hike on Saturday evening.