Category: Applied Linguistics

Posts related to the Department of English’s TESL-ALT Program.

CATEGORIES: ALT, Department News, Graduate Student News

Department faculty teach 5,272 participants in the “Using Educational Technology in the English Language Classroom” course!

We are pleased to announce that the Iowa State University-developed Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Using Educational Technology in the English Language Classroom (https://www.openenglishprograms.org/MOOC) ended for 5,272 participants on August 23, 2021. This MOOC was offered as part of the Online Professional English Network (OPEN), which is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State … Continue reading Department faculty teach 5,272 participants in the “Using Educational Technology in the English Language Classroom” course!

CATEGORIES: ALT, Department News, Graduate Student News

Ivana Rehman Received the Graduate College Research Excellence Award (REA) from the Graduate Studies Committee for Summer 2021 

Congratulations to graduate student Ivana Rehman (ALT), who received the Graduate College Research Excellence Award (REA) from the Graduate Studies Committee for Summer 2021. The department provides a modest scholarship award to each recipient.  Each also receives a letter, certificate, and honor cord from the ISU president and recognition by ISU at commencement.

CATEGORIES: Applied Linguistics, Creative Writing, Department News, Graduate Student News, ISUcommx

Spring 2021 Graduate and Undergraduate Student Award Winners

Graduate Awards AWARD Student Pearl Hogrefe Grants in Creative Writing One or more Pearl Hogrefe Grants in Creative Writing will be awarded during the spring semester to graduate students who show extraordinary promise in creative writing. These awards are open to all graduate students at Iowa State and will be given on the basis of … Continue reading Spring 2021 Graduate and Undergraduate Student Award Winners

CATEGORIES: ALT, Applied Linguistics, Department Events

Corpus Linguistics Student Organization (COLISTO) Guest Speaker Series

Corpus Linguistics Student Organization (COLISTO) is hosting this semester’s second guest speaker talk to be held on April 30, Friday, from 1-2 pm. Our guest speaker is Dr. Tove Larsson, who is an assistant professor at Northern Arizona University. In her talk, she will be sharing with us her recent collaborative research on adverb placement in spoken and … Continue reading Corpus Linguistics Student Organization (COLISTO) Guest Speaker Series

April 30, 2021, 1:00-2:00pm | Sign up for Zoom link.
CATEGORIES: ALT, Department Events, TESL

TESL/ALT Brown Bag Colloquium Series

Mark your calendars for the fifth Brown Bag event of Spring 2021. Kristin Terrill will present on examining writing quality-detracting traits in theses and dissertations with human readers and Grammarly.

February 26, 2021, 12:00-1:00pm