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-Thomas Leverett, CESL, Southern Illinois Univ., Carbondale IL USA 62901-4518.

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2009 TESOLS

Leverett, T. (Mar 2009). Uncharted but breathtaking: Integrating written chat into writing class. Demonstration, Writing IS, TESOL 2009, Denver CO USA.
Introduction


Leverett, T. & Wright, H. (Mar. 2009). Error correction frontier: The good, the bad and the ugly. Discussion, Writing IS, TESOL 2009, Denver CO USA.


Leverett, T. & Hunt, E. (Mar. 2009). Technology as aid, crutch and impediment to learning. Discussion, Writing IS, TESOL 2009, Denver CO USA.
Leverett, T. (2008). Green line to the commons: Grammar check takes ESL for a ride. Introduction.
___ (2008). Voyage of discovery: The questions.
___ (2008). Still more questions.

Principle Wanted: various writing

The following were put on the web before being compiled; I've already used many of them. They say "Unpublished" but were in effect published by being put up.

Leverett, T. (2008). Principle Wanted: Introduction. Unpublished.
___ (2008). Oh to be estar. Unpublished.
___ (2008). Tale of two hypotheses. Unpublished.
___ (2008). Grammar Wars. Unpublished.
___ (2008). Communicative theory rocks the 20th century. Unpublished.

___ (2007). After Krashen, reboot. Unpublished. Original intro & links.
___ (2007). After Krashen, learn the rules of the road. More intro.


Leverett, T. (2007). Volume theory. Unpublished manuscript. http://www.siu.edu/~cesl/teachers/pd/vt.html.

Leverett, T. (2004). Translation Plateau. Unpublished document. http://www.siu.edu/~cesl/teachers/pd/pw.html.

Leverett, T. (2006). Language as an emergent, self-organizing system: Introduction
___ (2006). Principles of self-organized, emergent systems.
Unpublished.
___ (2006). Principles of language and language change.
___ (2006). Human perception: Change as the default option.
___ (2007). Principle wanted, cont'd.


recent presentations, web projects, etc.:

Leverett, T. (2008, Apr.) Teaching writing in online and paper worlds. Writing IS, Demonstration, TESOL Convention, New York NY. Script and articles: http://www.siu.edu/~cesl/teachers/pd/tw.html.
Leverett, T. (2008). Communicative competence in the digital world, from TW.
___ (2008). Fitting weblogs into a coherent writing pedagogy, from TW.
___ (2008). Publishing is non-count, assignments are count, from TW.
___ (2008). Digital fluency as goal and objective, from TW.
___ (2008). Always in MyFace: Social networking becomes a necessity, from TW.
___ (2008). brb: Using chat in esl/efl writing classes, from TW.
___ (2008). Space after period: Line editing as a way of life, from TW.


___ (2008, Apr.). Weblog portfolios in an intensive English program. eFairs Classics, CALL-IS Electronic Village, TESOL Convention, Seattle WA. http://www.siu.edu/~cesl/teachers/pd/wp.html.

___ (2007, May). How weblogging affects the academic ecosystem. Presentation at 2nd Webheads in Action Online Convergence, including chat at Tapped In, static web site, and weblog with notes.

___ (2007, Mar.). Student weblogging for fluency, skills and integration. Writing IS Demonstration, TESOL Convention, Seattle, WA. Accompanying script and articles: http://www.siu.edu/~cesl/teachers/pd/wf.html.

Leverett, T. (2007). Reasons for using weblogs, from WF.
___ (2007). I post, therefore I am: Ways to use weblogs, from WF.
___ (2007). Fluency first: Fluency as a construct, from WF.
___ (2007). Red bleeds the paper: writing skills through correction, from WF.
___ (2007). Integration - into what, exactly?, from WF.
___ (2007). Weblogs happen: Stuff happens on weblogs, from WF.


___ (2007, Mar.). Weblog portfolios in an intensive English program. Same as above, TESOL Convention, Seattle.

Leverett, T. & Moody, L. (2007, Mar.) Defining, detecting and dealing with online plagiarism. CALL-IS Discussion, TESOL Convention, Seattle, WA.

___ (2006). Internet Plagiarism. CALL-IS Discussion. TESOL Convention, Tampa, FL, Mar.

Leverett, T. (2006). Internet plagiarism: an esl/efl learning experience. For IP.

___ (2006). Daring to enter the blogosphere. Prog. Admin. IS, Paper, TESOL Convention, Tampa, FL, Mar. Script draft: http://www.siu.edu/~cesl/teachers/pd/debr.html.

Leverett, T. (2006). This is your program: This is your program on weblogs. Part of DEB.
___ (2006). This is your class: This is your class on weblogs. Part of DEB.
___ (2006). This is your brain: This is your brain on weblogs. Part of DEB.

___ (2006). Keeping up with the web. CALL-IS Discussion, TESOL Convention, Tampa, FL, Mar.

___ (2006). This is your program: This is your program on weblogs. CALL-IS Internet Fair presentation, Electronic Village, TESOL Convention, Tampa FL, Mar.

Leverett, T. and Montgomerie, J. (2005). This is your class: This is your class on weblogs. Webheads in Action Online Convergence, online conference, Nov. 17-20.

___ (2005). Teaching teachers to use weblogs, Internet Fair, CALL-IS, TESOL 2005, San Antonio, March.

___ (2005). One teacher's perspective on weblogs in the curriculum. From TT.

Leverett, T. (2005). Marketing learning, learning marketing, Discussion, PROG-AD-IS, TESOL 2005, San Antonio, March. With links to What makes people click, online manual, and marketing resources.

___ (2003). What makes people click: Marketing an IEP on the web. Online manual.
___ (2003). The web as a medium. from WMPC.
___ (2003). General principles of marketing. from WMPC.
___ (2003). Our market/our students. from WMPC.
___ (2003). Making a page, putting it up, maintaining a system. from WMPC.
___ (2003). Basics of web design. from WMPC.
___ (2003). Web extras: cgi, javascript, flash, etc.. from WMPC.
___ (2003). Search engines and optimization. from WMPC.
___ (2003). Online marketers and directories. from WMPC.
___ (2003). Pages in many languages. from WMPC.
___ (2003). Advice: What to strive for, what to avoid. from WMPC.
___ (2003). Looking into the future. from WMPC.


Leverett, T., Kelly, C. and Kelly, L. (2005). Role of the web, CALL-IS Discussion, TESOL 2005, San Antonio, Mar.

Kelly, C. and Leverett, T. Effective Web Design. CALL-IS Discussion at TESOL 2004, Los Angeles, USA, April 12, 2002. With links to similar TESOL presentations:

Leverett, T. (2004). Web development for busy writing teachers, CALL-IS Internet Fair Classics, TESOL 2004, with links to similar pages.

The Experiential Skills Project (1998), providing feedback for Pedagogical Grammar teachers, housed on the CESL webpages.




published articles on the web:

Leverett, T. (2008). Virtual traveller. Global Study Magazine, London, UK. Available online at: http://www.globalstudymagazine.com/site/articles/391/.

___ (2007, May). Dialects in a changing language. Global Study Magazine 4, 3. London. pp. 56-57. Available online at: http://globalstudymagazine.com/site/articles/359.

___ (2007, Jan.). Same world, different glasses. Global study Magazine, 4, 2, pp. 70-71. London, UK. Available online at: http://globalstudymagazine.com/site/articles/336/.

___ (2006, Aug.). This is your class on weblogs. Teaching English with Technology 6, 3. IATEFL Poland Computer SIG Publication. http://www.iatefl.org.pl/call/j_tech25.htm#cla

___ (2006, Aug.). Three ways to integrate weblogging into your writing clases. Teaching English with Technology 6, 3. IATEFL Poland Computer SIG Publication. http://www.iatefl.org.pl/call/j_tech25.htm#way.

___ (2006). Growing up bilingual. Global Study Magazine, London. Available online at: http://www.globalstudymagazine.com/xite/articles/276/.

___ (2006). High heels on a rocky path. Global Study Magazine, London. Available online at: http://www.globalstudymagazine.com/xite/articles/260/.

___ (2005). Virtual learning: A toe in the pool of the new media. Global Study Magazine, London. Available online at: http://www.globalstudymagazine.com/site/articles/240/.

___ (2005). It takes a village, TESOL CALL-IS Newsletter, vol. 22, no. 2, March.

___ (2005). A question of time (pdf), Global Study Magazine 3.1, pp. 42-43. London, UK. Available online (pdf) at: http://www.siu.edu/~cesl/teachers/pages/leverett/pdf/20yrs.pdf

___ (2004). The road to fluency (pdf), Global Study Magazine 2.3, pp. 46-47, London, UK. Available online (pdf) at: http://www.siu.edu/~cesl/teachers/pages/leverett/pdf/road.pdf.

___ (2004). A midwestern tale (pdf). Global Study Magazine 2.2, pp. 16-17. London, UK. Also appears in Global Study Magazine, Study USA Special Edition (2005). Available online (pdf) at: http://www.siu.edu/~cesl/teachers/pages/leverett/pdf/midwest.pdf

___ (2001). Web Design: Balancing Usability and Innovation, TESOL CALL-IS Newsletter, vol. 19,. no. 1.

___ (2000). Effective Webpage Design, TESOL CALL-IS Newsletter, vol. 18, no. 1.

___ (1998). Testing Thoughts on the TOEFL, American Language July-August. Available online at: http://www.languagemagazine.com/internetedition/ja98/eett32.html.


book reviews on the web:

Leverett, T. (2006). Review of The Struggle to Teach English as an International Language, by Adrian Holliday, TESL-EJ (TESL Electronic Journal), 10, 2, Sept.

___ (2005). Review of Methods of Research on Teaching the English Language Arts, J. Flood, D. Lapp, J. R. Squire, and J. M. Jensen, eds., TESL-EJ (TESL Electronic Journal), vol. 9, no. 2, Sept.

___ (2004). Review of A History of English Language Teaching, Second Edition by A.P.R. Howatt, with Henry Widdowson, TESL-EJ, vol. 8, no. 3, Dec.

___ (2003). Review of Explorations in Language Acquisition and Use: The Taipei Lectures, by Stephen Krashen,
TESL-EJ, vol. 7, no. 2, Sept.

___ (2001). Review of Second Language Acquisition, by S. Gass and L. Selinker, TESL-EJ, vol. 5, no. 2, Sept.

___ (2000). Review of Rethinking America, by M. Sokolik, TESL-EJ, vol. 4, no. 3, May.

___ (1999). Review of Dialects in Schools and Communities, by W. Wolfram, C. Adger, and D. Christian, TESL-EJ, vol. 4, no. 1, July.

___ (1997). Review of Second Language Acquisition Theory and Pedagogy, ed. by F. Eckman, D. Highland, P. Lee, J. Milcham, and R. R. Weber, TESL-EJ, vol. 2, no. 3, January.

___ (1996). Review of Beyond Names for Things, ed. by M. Tomasello and W. Merriman, TESL-EJ, vol. 2, no. 1, March.

___ (1995). Review of A Teacher's Grammar, by R. A. Close, TESL-EJ, vol. 1, no. 4, June.



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