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COURSES

ESL 100 In-class:
In-class Freshman Composition Course for ESL Students at Kapi‘olani Community College ("Secondary Education in America" theme)

ESL 100 Online:
Online Freshman Composition Course for ESL Students at Kapi‘olani Community College ("Secondary Education in America" theme

ESL 100 / LING 102 Learning Community:
Word Up! Freshman Composition / Intro Linguistics Learning Community for ESL Students at Kapi‘olani Community College ("Interlanguage Development" theme)

ESOL 197- Holes Curriculum:
Intensive English Development Course for International Students at Kapi‘olani Community College

ESOL 197- Mass Media Curriculum:
Intensive English Development Course for International Students at Kapi‘olani Community College

ESOL 197- Civil Rights Curriculum:
Intensive English Development Course for International Students at Kapi‘olani Community College

ESOL 94- The Environment Curriculum:
High-Intermediate English Development Course for ESL Students at Kapi‘olani Community College

ESOL 92- Immigration Curriculum:
Intermediate English Development Course for ESL Students at Kapi‘olani Community College

ELI 100 for G1.5 Students:
In-class Freshman Composition Course for G1.5 Students at UH Manoa

ELI 100 In-class:
In-class Freshman Composition Course for ESL Students at UH Manoa

ELI 100 Online:
Online Freshman Composition Course for ESL Students at UH Manoa

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LESSONS

Academic Writing in the ESOL Program
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Discourses Lesson: Domain, Discourse, & Genre

Extended Readings for ESOL 94 The Environment Curriculum (.zipped files)

Holes Collocation Lesson: Unit 1
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Holes Grammar Lesson: Perfect Aspect with Present and Past Tense
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Netiquette Lesson: Requesting, Apologizing, & Informing

Plagiarism Lesson: Quoting, paraphrasing, & Summarizing

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ACTIVITIES

Desert Island Guided Free-write Online Activity

"The Missing Cats" Reading Strategies Online Activity

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PRESENTATIONS

2006 March Innovations Annual Conference (.ppt file)
"Word Up! ESL/Linguistics Learning Community with an “Interlanguage” Focus" PowerPoint Presentation

2006 March TESOL Annual Conference
"Learning to Read or Reading to Learn?" Handout

2005 February HATESL/ DSLS Brownbag
""Get PFUNK-E!": A 6-step Approach for ESL Reading Development" Handout

2004 May AAAL Annual Conference
"Setting the PACE: Presenting a Model for Participatory Curriculum Evaluation" Handout

2003 July JSLS Conference (.ppt file)
"The Instruction of E-mail Pragmatics" PowerPoint Presentation

2003 March HALT/ HITESOL Joint Annual Conference
"The Instruction of E-mail Pragmatics" Online Presentation

2003 March HALT/ HITESOL Joint Annual Conference (zipped files)
"Reflections and Directions: Participation in a Pilot Portfolio Assessment Project" PDF Handouts

2002 November HITESOL Practical Workshop
"Developing a Teaching Portfolio" Handout

2002 May HATESL/ DSLS Brownbag
"Developing a Teaching Portfolio" Handout

2002 February HATESL/ DSLS Brownbag and 2002 April AAAL Annual Conference
"KCC Curriculum Evaluation Project" Text

2001 November HITESOL Multimedia Workshop
"Using FLASH in Multimedia Language Lessons" Handout

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WORKSHOPS

EA in ESL Summer 2007 Workshops
Professional Development workshop series at KCC for DOE Educational Assistants

ARTICLES

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Ford, S.M. (in press). "Institutionalizing SoTL in the community college: An examination of a community college- university research partnership". In J. Carmona (ed.), Faculty, Administration, and the Working Environment. Perspectives on Community College ESL Series, TESOL Publications.

E-mail Pragmatics
Ford, S.M. (2006). "The Instruction of E-mail Pragmatics to Second Language Learners". Studies in Language Sciences 5. Japanese Society of Language Sciences.

Ford, S.M. (2003). "The Instruction of Email Pragmatics to Second Language Learners". JSLS 2003, The 5th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences, 126-131. Conference Handbook.

Ford, S.M. (2003). "'Dear Mr. Shawn': A Lesson in E-mail Pragmatics (Netiquette)". TESOL Journal, 12 (1), 39-40.

Content Area Tutoring
Ford, S.M. (2003). "The Four Knows of Content Area Tutoring: A Handbook for Content Area Tutors". CRLA Tutor Training Handbook, 2nd Ed., 121-129.

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