ENGL 150 – Multimodal Remix To help students prepare for the Multimodal Remix module, Allya Yourish has designed a lesson plan for the beginning of the module after students have been introduced to the module requirements in order to help them understand multimodality. Students will enter the lesson having read from the textbook for … Continue reading Up Next in ENGL 150
This past summer, faculty from Iowa State University’s Department of English helped high school apprentices in welding and machinery at John Deere sharpen their writing and speaking skills through a five-week, in-person communications training course called the High School Registered Apprenticeship Program (HRAP). This was a continuation of the collaboration between Iowa State and the … Continue reading The Department of English continues its collaboration with John Deere
Ananda Muhammad is awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Grant from The International Research Foundation for English Language Education (TIRF). Ananda is a doctoral candidate in applied linguistics and technology. Her dissertation investigates the construct of interactional pragmatics in the U.S. university setting through the development and administration of a diagnostic assessment. Her work has been presented … Continue reading Ananda Muhammad is awarded a TIRF Doctoral Dissertation Grant
Iowa State University’s Applied Linguistics Program hosts the Technology for Second Language Learning Conference (TSLL) each fall. Each year the conference organizing committee creates a conference theme that reflects emerging areas of research-practice synergies. The 2023 conference will provide a forum for researchers, teachers, and course developers to explore the contributions of research in advancing … Continue reading Technology for Second Language Learning Conference — Advancing Technologies — Expanding Research
We would love to invite you to a lunch & learn gathering in Ross 212 this coming Wednesday at 11:30. After a light lunch, three of our graduate students will be presenting on the topic of ChatGPT and writing. In particular, Jorge, Altay and Ali were interested in exploring possible ChatGPT connections to teaching English … Continue reading Lunch and Learn — English 150 – ChatGPT explorations
Gratitude with Dogs under Stars features selections from Debra Marquart’s three collections of lyric poetry (Small Buried Things, New Rivers Press 2015; From Sweetness, Pearl Editions 2001; and Everything’s a Verb, New Rivers Press 1995) and adds 21 new poems to round out the experience. Beginning with the new poems, the collection travels back through Marquart’s illustrious … Continue reading Debra Marquart has a new collection published this August
Evgeny Chukharev and Abram Anders, in collaboration with their colleagues in the UK and the Netherlands, have been awarded a three-year, $850,000 grant from the NSF for their research project titled “Real-time, biometric, intention-informed scaffolding of source-based writing processes.” This project builds upon the PIs’ prior research, which involved the development of novel biometric technologies … Continue reading Evgeny Chukharev and Abram Anders receive a competitive $850,000 NSF grant
The RPC area group will host a colloquium event this semester. These events bring us together to showcase and/or discuss the scholarship and intellectual contributions we make. This year, the intent is to highlight graduate students’ scholarship. Two graduate students who are presenting at a conference this semester agreed to share their conference presentations with … Continue reading RPC Fall Colloquium
Dear all, As someone who lives by an academic calendar, I usually lose September completely in the rush of starting a new semester, meeting new students, and facing myriad summer-is-over demands on my time and attention. Poof! What happened to September? Where did it go? I’m guessing many of you can relate. This year, I … Continue reading Director’s Letter