TESOL 2009 Presentation Downloads

Please feel free to download, adapt, and use these handouts, games, and activities in your classroom, but please acknowledge the authors: Nigel Caplan, Ruelaine Stokes, and Andrew McCullough. These materials may be used for non-commercial purposes only. For more information, please write to this address.

Playing Games, Creating Writers (Experimental Session)

• Session handout
• Free association game handout
• Prop box game handout
• Balancing viewpoints game handout
• Metaphor game concept cards
• Dialogue dice interlocutors

Beyond "Help!" Diagnosing the L2 Writer's Essay: A Strategies-Based Approach (Workshop)

• PowerPoint slides (download as PDF)
• Workshop handout
• References and further reading
• Graphophobia (writer's block) activity
• Myopia (focus) activities (workshop activity + 3 bonus ones!)
• Hyopcognition (critical thinking) activity
• Alexia (peer review) handouts: peer and self review/response forms in a ZIP folder
• Ruelaine, Nigel, and Andy's paper based on an earlier version of this workshop, as published in the Proceedings of the 2007 MITESOL Conference (PDF)

Help Students Step Up their English for the iBT (Publisher's Session)

• PowerPoint slides (download as PDF)
• Step Up to the TOEFL iBT for Intermediate Students (link to University of Press ESL website)

Contact Information

• Nigel A. Caplan (nacaplan AT unc.edu), ESL Specialist, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Writing Center
• Ruelaine Stokes (stokesly AT msu.edu), ESL Specialist/Instructor, Michigan State University English Language Center
• Andrew McCullough (mccullo4 AT msu.edu), Academic Specialist, Michigan State University English Language Center