[NIFL-ESL:10250] Re: Calling all Ideas! TESOL time

From: A Tom (abtom@mindspring.com)
Date: Thu Apr 29 2004 - 17:36:21 EDT


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I'm not sure what they want.  I got tired of being rejected.  I didn't 
go to TESOL this year but in previous years, I didn't think their adult 
ESL offerings (on the whole) were all that interesting (or is that a 
case of sour grapes?).
Abbie Tom
abtom@mindspring.com
Abbie Tom
Durham Technical Community College
Durham, NC US


On Thursday, April 29, 2004, at 04:19  PM, Andres Muro wrote:
> TESOL seems to like cutesy titles for their presentations. Things like:
>
> The beatles, "Let it be" and verb conjugation
>
> Loonie toons and other cartoons to teach adjectives
>
> Rock and roll and modal auxiliaries.
>
> The are not too interested in ideologcal stuff such as poverty, 
> access, gender issues, etc. A few years ago I was thinking of 
> submitting several proposals with cute titles and bogus content to see 
> if they got accepted. I am kind of lazy though.
>
> Andres
>



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