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MidTESOL Matters
Spring 2001 |
A Publication of Mid-America Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages
MidTESOL
Presents Awards to Members in 2000
By Cheryl Eason
Five members of MidTESOL received MidTESOL
awards in the spring and summer of 2000. The Awards Committee chose four recipients
for Travel Awards to the NAME-MidTESOL Conference in Omaha on May 17-20. Articles
discussing their presentations can be found in the Summer 2000 issue, elsewhere
in this issue, and in upcoming issues of MidTESOL Matters.
Denise Mussman, who co-presented "Advanced
ESL Listening Activities" with Nancy Mayer, was one of the Travel Award
recipients. Mussman is ESL Coordinator at the University of Missouri at St.
Louis, and Mayer teaches ESL at the University of Missouri at St. Louis.
William Eubank of Raytown, Missouri,
our MidTESOL webmaster, presented a winning submission entitled "Extend
Your Lesson." In his presentation, Eubank shared how members can use MidTESOL's
website to reach a larger audience.
Lois Spitzer, who teaches at the University
of Nebraska at Lincoln, won an award to present "International and American
Students Studying Together?" about her university-level English composition
course.
Finally, JoAnne Zoller Wagner, an assistant
professor at Central College in Pella, Iowa, received an award for her presentation
"Creative Effective Questionnaires on Cultural Topics" based on her
students use of questionnaires in her ESL American Culture classes.
All the Travel Award winners to the NAME-MidTESOL
Conference received a waiver of their registration fee for the MidTESOL portion
of the conference and an additional $150 to help them pay other costs of their
attending the conference.
MidTESOL's first TESOL Academy Travel Award was awarded to Tom Riedmiller, who teaches in The Culture and Intensive English Program at the University of Northern Iowa. Riedmiller used the award to attend TESOL's Midwest Academy in Chicago, July 21-23, 2000. The workshop he selected, "Teaching Speaking by Principles," was led by John Murphy of Georgia State University. The MidTESOL TESOL Academy Travel Award offers up to $650 to cover the winner's travel, registration, and room and board expenses.
