Second
Language Writing Instruction in Context(s)
The Effects of Institutional Policies and Politics
The 4th Symposium
on Second Language Writing will take place from September
30 to October 2, 2004, at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana,
USA. Invited
speakers will include:
Danling
Fu, University of Florida
Ilona
Leki, University of Tennessee
Sara Cushing Weigle, Georgia
State University
Jessica Williams, University of Illinois at
Chicago
The theme for this
year's Symposium is "Second Language
Writing Instruction in Context(s): The Effects of Institutional
Policies and Politics."
While
the majority of work done in second language writing addresses instruction,
the focus of much of this scholarship is on what happens in the classroom
as opposed to how the institutional contexts outside the classroom
shape instructional practices. To help remedy this imbalance, this symposium
will focus on institutional polices and politics and how they influence
classroom practice. We refer here to policies on assessment, placement,
credit, class size, course content, instructional practices, teacher
preparation, and teacher support and to politics in terms of the relationships
and interaction between second
language writing professionals and their colleagues at the program,
department, school, college, and university levels and beyond.
Presenters will explore
how instructional
policies and politics affect instructional practices. The
Symposium will also provide many opportunities--both formal and informal--to
interact
with presenters
as well as other
second
language writing specialists.
Special
Event: Graduate Student Conference on Second Language Writing. In
addition to the regular two-day symposium, we will host a graduate
student conference
on Thursday,
September 30. We hope many people--both graduate students and experienced
second language writing specialists--will participate in this event,
which aims to bring together the next generation of second
language
writing
specialists.
The informational
flyer for the 2004 Symposium is available HERE in Adobe
PDF format. Please feel free to distribute it to your colleagues
and students or to post it on your office door and bulletin boards.
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The
Symposium on Second Language Writing is a biennial professional
conference that brings together teachers and researchers who work
with second-
and foreign-language writers to discuss important issues in the field
of second language writing. More information about past symposia
is available at: http://symposium.jslw.org/.