TESL/ALT Brown Bag Colloquium

Kimberly Becker, Tia Saddler, and Camryn Bockelman will give a presentation about stance features in the physical sciences sub-corpus of the Michigan Corpus of Upper-Level Student Papers.

Public Poster Presentations-Conlangs: The Art of Language Construction

Retired Faculty Breakfast

Language Assessment Student Organization Annual Language Testing Talk

MFA 560 Field Experience – Final Presentations

Nine MFA students will deliver presentations about their 560 Environment Field Experiences.  Open to the public, pizza will be served.

Heal the Divide on Campus Reading

Please join us in Parks Library on Monday at 12:15 for the Heal the Divide on Campus reading.  We’ll be sharing short plays by Iowa State playwriting students and would love to have you in the audience! HEAL THE DIVIDE ON CAMPUS A reading of new student-written plays Protest Plays Project and The Eco-Theatre Lab … Continue reading Heal the Divide on Campus Reading

Speaker: Joy Robinson, Multimodal Writing in the 21st Century: Digital Affordances in Teaching and Learning

Emerging Writers

Last Emerging Writers of the year! Fiction:  Michael Wettengel Poetry:  TBA Non-Fiction:  Hagan Faye Whiteleather

Quentin Johnson Lecture in Linguistics, Tracey Derwing

Understanding Second Language Speakers: What REALLY Matters? Tracey Derwing is a Professor Emeritus of TESL (Teaching English as a Second Language) in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Alberta.  She has extensively researched second language fluency and pronunciation, especially the relationships among intelligibility, comprehensibility, and accent.  She will discuss what research tells … Continue reading Quentin Johnson Lecture in Linguistics, Tracey Derwing

Sketch Bake Sale