Dr. Christine Pearson Casanave, casanave@redshift.com
Adjunct Professor, Teachers College Columbia University (Japan)
1 credit - No prerequisites. Open to all groups /TESOL IIIA/Elective (V)
P/F (option for letter grade)
Advisement note: This is a TESOL IIIA elective course for Groups 1-17. Group 18 may register with Director approval. Courses with this course number may be taken more than once. In addition to the continuing on-line discussions, there will also be some time allotted to in-person group discussions. This will be facilitated by the TC Program Coordinator, Michele Milner.
| This course is offered online, with one weekend of class meetings, to students and alumni who wish to build a coherent body of readings in their areas of interest for one or more of the following reasons: recency requirements at TC, preparing for a literature review for the MA project, preparing a literature review for a paper for publication, or completing the required number of points (34) at TC. This course is NOT appropriate for students who have not yet identified a focused area of inquiry. |
A reliable e-mail account and Web access; a focused area of inquiry
This mainly online course will consist of group and individual student-teacher discussions about readings in TESOL and applied linguistics. Several core articles will be selected by the instructor for discussion and commentary by all students. With the guidance of the instructor, students will then build their own reading lists within a focused area of inquiry, and respond to those articles critically and analytically to the instructor and at least one other student (one or more reading partners). Where possible, all class members will engage in whole-group online discussion.
This course will help students select appropriate readings around a research question of their choice; read critically and analytically; discuss readings in their own words; selectively quote and paraphrase from readings, with appropriate citation styles.
TBA
Completion of a pre-course questionnaire and essay.
Christine Pearson Casanave (PhD Stanford University, 1990) was a professor at Keio University's SFC campus from 1990 to 2003. She taught courses in Qualitative Classroom Research and Writing Methods and Practicum at Teachers College in Tokyo from 1994 to 2003. She is now working as an adjunct for Teachers College from her base in California. Her areas of research and publication concern academic literacy and the professional development of language educators. Her latest books are: Writing Games: Multicultural Case Studies of Academic Literacy Practices in Higher Education (Lawrence Erlbaum, 2002) and Writing for Scholarly Publication: Behind the Scenes in Language Education, co-edited with Stephanie Vandrick (Lawrence Erlbaum, 2003). She is currently preparing a book for the University of Michigan Press, Controversies in Second Language Writing, to be published in 2004.