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VATESOL SW 2013

April 13
Virginia Tech Language and Culture Institute

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The VATESOL 2013 SW Conference will be held April 13, 2013 at the Virginia Tech Language and Culture Institute! Click the link in the menu to the left for more information.

The VATESOL 2012 Conference was held on October 6th at Old Dominion University. This year's conference theme was "Advocacy and Inclusion: Breaking Barriers and Building Community."

If you missed the conference, you can access some of the presentations and handouts from the sessions here!

Using Action Research to Improve Instruction for English Language Learners - Courtney Clayton, Phd; Rachel DeVerna, M.S.

Movement Activities and International Cooperative Games - Christine Hoppe

Immigrant Professional Career Re-entry: Facilitation Methods and Advocacy - Stephen Lambert & Ning Jiang
- Handouts - America without Einsteins, Executive Summary - America without Einsteins)

Reading, Reading, and More Reading - Linda Sanford
- Handouts - Book Report, Lextutor instructions, Oral Book Review - Peer Eval, Reading Log)

Future: Basic Literacy Meets Life Skills - Keith Pruitt
- Handout - FUTURE: The Perfect Pathway to Careers)

Building a Learning Community of Inclusion - Dr. Deborah Westin
- Handout - Building a Learning Community of Inclusion

A Cross-Cultural Study of Polish and American Values Affecting School Dishonesty - Jadwiga Staniszewska-De Mott