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Temple TESOL Journal Club
The Temple TESOL Journal Club is an informal gathering of students interested in current research in TESOL and Applied Linguistics. The club meets approximately three times a semester to discuss an important recent journal article or book chapter in the field.
The overarching goal of the journal club is to help people be aware and knowledgeable of recent works in the field. While reading the articles is important, discussing them usually leads to a much more in-depth understanding (and memory) of the articles. The journal club is also a good way to get to know other students in the TESOL program, and others who are interested in the study of TESOL and AL. In addition, the journal club is a great resource for students who are taking the Master’s Comps.
This semester, I am trying to coordinate the journal club and the Language and Linguistic Speaker Series. The plan is for the journal club to meet and discuss an article by the speaker in the week before the speaker comes to campus. For the first meeting of the journal club, we will be reading and discussing the book chapter “Interlanguage and Fossilization:
Towards an Analytic Model” by Zhaohong Han. Our meeting will be Thursday, October 13th, and Professor Han will be giving her talk on Thursday, October 20th.
The full reference for the chapter is:
Han, Z.-H. (2009). Interlanguage and fossilization: Towards an analytic model. In V. Cook & L. Wei (Eds.), Contemporary Applied Linguistics (Vol. I: Language Teaching and Learning pp. 137-162). London: Continuum.
Sincerely,
Elvis Wagner, Assistant Professor of TESOL
The next meeting of the Temple TESOL Journal Club will be Thursday, December 2nd, from 11:00-noon
Place: 432 Ritter Hall
The theme of the December 2nd meeting of the Temple TESOL Journal Club is “Intelligibility and World Englishes”. We will be discussing two short articles:
Rajagopalan, K. (2010). The soft ideological underbelly of the notion of intelligibility in discussions about “World Englishes”. Applied Linguistics, 31, 465-470.
Nelson, C. (2008). Intelligibility since 1969. World Englishes, 27, 297-308.
The overarching goal of the journal club is to help people be aware and knowledgeable of recent works in the field. While reading the articles is important, discussing them usually leads to a much more in-depth understanding (and memory) of the articles. The journal club is also a good way to meet others interested in the study of TESOL and Applied Linguistics.
The next meeting of the Temple TESOL Journal Club will be Thursday,
November 4th, from 11:00-noon
Place: 432 Ritter Hall
The theme of the
November 4th meeting is "Assessing Speaking Ability". We will be
discussing the article:
Qian, D. (2009). Comparing Direct and Semi-Direct Modes for Speaking
Assessment: Affective Effects on Test takers. Language Assessment
Quarterly, 6, 113-125.
This is a relatively short article, so we will also discuss another
article:
Zhang, Y, and Elder, C. (2010). Judgments of oral proficiency by
non-native and Native English Speaking Teacher Raters: Competing or
Complementary Constructs. Language Testing.
The main focus of the meeting will be the Qian article, so please make
sure to read this article. You are not required to read the Zhang and
Elder article.
First Meeting: Thursday, September 16 11:00-noon
Place: 432 Ritter Hall
The Temple TESOL Journal Club is an informal gathering of students interested in current research in TESOL and Applied Linguistics. The club will meet every three weeks or so to discuss an article that was recently published in one of the major TESOL/AL journals, or a book chapter in a recently published book.
The overarching goal of the journal club is to help people be aware and knowledgeable of recent works in the field. While reading the articles is important, discussing them usually leads to a much more in-depth understanding (and memory) of the articles. The journal club is also a good way to meet others interested in the study of TESOL and Applied Linguistics.
The book chapter to be discussed at the first meeting is:
Wong, J., and Waring, H. Z. (2010). Conversation analysis and second language pedagogy: A guide for ESL/ EFL teachers. New York: Routledge. Chapter 8 “Conversational analysis and instructional practices”, pp. 251-281.
This article was chosen because Professor Waring will be presenting at the Temple TESOL Language and Linguistics Speaker series on Thursday, September 30th.
