Professional Development Plan
My Goals
1. Class observations
2. Attend guest lectures in
APLNG to enhance my
understanding of current
research in the field.
Activity Date
(Complete 2-3 activities for each goal.)
a. IECP-Science Applied English instructed by
Megan and Molly
b. ESL 015 Session 06-Academic Writing
instructed by Elvin He
c. ESL 015 Session 15-Academic Writing
instructed Abigail Kahn
a. Dr. Brian Mac Whinney, Carnegie Mellon
University, Limits on Success in Second
Language Learning
How did the activity shape your professional
Completed development as an ELT?
(ongoing?)
Sep.7, 2016 In this class, Megan introduced how the lab
report is organized and continued to focused on
what is a good research question. There were a
lot of interaction happening, which is very
meaningful for me to observe and have a deep
reflection for my own practicum class.
Oct.17, 2016 The topic of this class is Reporting Verbs, which
is a very crucial and frequently used part in
academic writing. From this class observation, I
learnt more about how to design activities to
encourage and inspire students to participate in
the activities and facilitate the class interaction.
Oct.20, 2016 This focus of this class is peer editing, in which
the instructor uses very meaningful questions to
help the students to think about their peers
article and also their own articles in different
perspectives. And the instructor also uses the
way to rearrange the seats and let students to
change the partners all the time, which
encourages the learners to talk a lot and always
get new ideas.
Sep.8,2016 From this experience, I got a clearer
understanding of the dynamic interplay
between a set of risk factors facing adult
learners and a set of positive or support factors
that they can use to overcome the barriers,
which will greatly facilitate the SLA process.
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b. Dwight Atkinson - Professor of English at Oct.3, 2016
the University of Arizona
Homo Pedagogicus: The Evolutionary Nature
of Second Language Teaching
c. Mary Grantham OBrien-Associate
Professor, Department of Linguistics,
Languages and Cultures, University of
Calgary
Talking about stress: Whats the L1 got to do
with it?
3. Online Resources a. Apply Membership for TESOL Journal
b. Pay attention to the Purdue OWL
c. Introduction to library resources
The author explored the definitional question
"What is teaching?" in this lecture. And also
introduced the idea of teaching as evolutionarily
adaptive behavior (TEAB) because it enables
individual and group adaptation to our
extremely varied and complex natural and social
environments. This lecture helped me know
more about the L2 classroom interaction.
Nov.2, 2016 The lecture pointed out that the lexical stress
error may negatively affect listeners ability to
process speech. Producing lexical stress
correctly is difficult for L2 learners, and cognates
may pose the greatest difficulties. The speaker
pointed to the role of metalinguistic awareness
in the production of word stress, which helped
me broaden my views.
Sep.6, 2016 TESOL Journal provides me with a valuable
opportunity to know the infinitive teaching in a
definite space. From there, I could know what
other teachers and professionals are doing and
help me do self-reflection, know more about
myself and know what I am doing and what I
have done before.
Sep.7, 2016 I think this is a very good website for us to learn
and prepare academic writing. You could find
valuable and feasible materials, ideas, plans and
article samples from this website, which greatly
help me in the whole process of practicum
process.
Sep.8, 2016 In this experience, I learnt how to use the library
data-base as resources for research and
practice. And I also learnt how to use as a
valuable resource for the teaching preparation
and also a teaching tool in my practicum.
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4. ESL Day a. ESL Day #1 Integrity
b. ESL Day #2 Science, Law and
Pronunciation
c. ESL Day #3 Intentionality
5.Round Table a. Round Table #1
Dr. Kevin MacManus-Examing the benefit of
L1 awareness for L2 grammar teaching
Dr. Lily Qin-An Empirical Study on affordance
in a Foreign Language Learning Environment
b. Round Table #2
Qian Wu and Dr. Heather McCoy
Sep.26, 2016 The topic for the ESL Day is Integrity, which
really me a lot in my teaching comparison and
contrast. Actually I adopted and developed
Sallys Digging Deeper into my class teaching
activity.
Oct. 17, 2016 There were three different presentations from
the perspectives of law, science and
pronunciation, which fully illustrates how the
ESL functions in different fields. We learned law
cases, in which to use the language more
logically and with more professional vocabulary
to do argument. I also learned to make scientific
hypothesis. And the most impressive part was
how to incorporate pronunciation teaching in
our ESL classroom.
Nov. 7, 2016 The topic for this ESL day was intentionality. Dr.
Verity organized several activities to help us look
at the ways in which planning, reflection, and
goal-setting help us grow as instructors,
students and scholars.
Sep.16, 2016 We always need to know what happened
outside the classroom, and we always need to
learn from others scientific study, and used
these learnt experiences to help and facilitate
our English language teaching.
Sep.30, 2016 From this experience, I learnt more about study
abroad programs and also know more about the
challenges that faced by both the students and
institutions.
From Qians speech, I realized how practical
understanding of the forms, the speech style
and identity influenced the local emotional
expressions.
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c. Round Table #3 Oct.7, 2016
Lindsey Kurtz: Formulaic Sequences in L2
Legal Writing & Olesya Kisselev:
Methodological considerations in formulaic
sequence research: A modified replication of
ODonnell, Rmer, and Ellis (2013)
d. Round Table #4 Oct. 28, 2016
Lindsey Kurtz: Conceptual development of
analogical reasoning in the second language
legal classroom
Marika Criss: The use and status of English at
the University of Helsinki
e. Round Table #5 Nov. 11, 2016
Tomoko Hori: Exploring the use of Text-to-
Speech software to create model speech
sounds for English oral presentations
Bob Schrauf: Some Quantitative
Visualization Techniques for Small Sample
Data Sets Commonly Found in APLNG
Posters, Papers, Dissertations, and
Publications
These two lectures were really difficult for me to
understand. The lecturer introduced that the
formulaic sequences (FS) are of considerable
importance not only for these learners in law
school but for any language learner. Using
academic writing data sampled from diverse L1
backgrounds and proficiency levels, they found
that different operationalizations led to
different patterns of results. The author also
examined the distribution of FSs in different
frequency and MI bands. Their analyses
revealed that the consistent use of corpus-
internal criteria for FS identification yielded a
different set of patterns of results.
The first presentation shared data from a
second language legal classroom where
Vygotskian concept-based instruction was
utilized to promote development of students
analogical reasoning in their reading and writing
in a pre-LL.M. program.
The second presentation examined the status
and use of English at UH, taking globalization,
internationalization, efforts to protect national
languages, access to information, and official
language policy into consideration.
According the current situation, in which it is
difficult the EFL learners to get customized
model speech samples, this study investigates
the use of Text-to-Speech software to create
model speech samples of oral presentations in
the field of engineering by examining speech
rate and pauses. The speaker also talked about
the possible implications for practicing and
teaching oral presentations.
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6. Workshop a. Schreyer Institute for teaching Excellence
Workshop-Motivation
b. Schreyer Institute for teaching Excellence
Workshop- Teaching Tips for International
Students
c. Multilingual Writers Research Group-Penn
State University
In this presentation, the speaker used three
small APLNG data sets to show how to produce
visual maps of such fields using a multivariate
exploratory technique called multiple
correspondence analysis.
Oct.3, 2016 From this workshop, I learnt that motivation is
as an orientation toward a goal, which is a very
important and crucial part for learners success.
We also analyzed and discussed how to inspire
learners motivation for the learning process,
which has practical meaning for our ESL
teaching.
Oct.19, 2016 This workshop focuses on the teaching tips for
international students. The speakers introduce
several different situations for us to talk and
discuss. During this process, try to guide us to
discuss and figure out the potential solutions,
which are really effective and helpful in the real
teaching environment.
Nov. 14, 2016 They gave us a wonderful lecture about the four
principles in tutoring multilingual writers. Even
though it was workshop for tutoring, they still
covered many important strategies for the
academic writing class, which had great
beneficial influence on my teaching.