国际学院“全英教师俱乐部”活动通知

 Invitation
Dear All,
 
The new activity of the “Association of Teachers Lecturing in English” in 2011 will be held on Friday, June 10 2011, at 3:00pm in No.316, Seminar Room, The second social science building, International School.
 
 
The schedule is as follow:
 
1. Keynote speech One by Prof. Steve Schackne
 Topic: Teaching English Using the Direct Method: the question-answer paradigm and its benefits in the classroom
2. Discussion & Tea break. 
3. Keynote speech Two by Prof. Jill Kester & Prof. Jordan Blen
Topic: Teaching Writing
4. Summarize by Prof. Li Zhiyu
 
For more information please contact Zhao Kai, 85224376.
 
The Standing Committee of the Club invites you to attend the meeting and make your contributions.
 
 
 
Committee of the Association of Teachers Lecturing in English
June-07-2011
 
 
 
 


Steve Schackne, English Language Fellow, Hadley School for the Blind
State University of New York at Albany M.S., Applied Linguistics (1984 – 1985)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill B.A, English, Drama (1965 – 1970)
He has been involved in international education for over 25 years. His brief has included both teaching, teacher training, and research in the areas of linguistics, second language acquisition, and academic writing.
 
His faculty appointments have included Tunghai University in Taiwan, Kansas University in the United States, Xiamen University in China, and the University of Macau.
In addition, he has also directed two programs--one for Oklahoma State University, and one for Culver Educational Foundation in the U.S.
He is the author of over 30 articles on language acquisition. 
 
 
Jill Kester, English Language Fellow, Beijing Institute of Education
Jill earned her master’s degree in TESOL at the School for International Training in 2000 and continues to be fascinated by the field of education, especially in the area of reading instruction and literacy skill transfer.  
Jill Kester has spent the past 10 months conducting training for primary and secondary teachers from all over China through the English Language Fellow program sponsored by the US government. For 16 years, she taught English to students at the elementary, secondary, and adult levels in both Japan and the US.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Jordan Blen, English Language Fellow, Jinan University
Jordan Blen recently graduated from the San Francisco State University M.A. TESOL program.
During his time in San Francisco he taught and tutored ESL students at City College of San Francisco and at SFSU. Prior to that he graduated from UC Davis with a degree in English and from Sacramento State University with a single subject teaching credential in English. He has taught literature classes at public high schools in California where he was also a baseball coach. He has also served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Guizhou, China teaching EFL at a university. As a volunteer he participated in a teacher training project for middle school teachers and in the World Wise Schools correspondence program. During this school year he has been teaching Academic Writing to post-graduate students as an English Language Fellow at Jinan University in Guangzhou, China.


作者：赵珣