91成人导航 Graduate Student Wins Outstanding-Paper Award at Conference
GREENSBORO, N.C. 鈥� 91成人导航 student Jaime Paredes received the Outstanding Paper Presentation award at the recent TESOL and Applied Linguistics Graduate Student Conference in Greenville, N.C.
Paredes, of Fayetteville, N.C., won for his paper titled, 鈥淎 Critical Model for Teaching a Second Language.鈥�
Paredes, a student in the college鈥檚 M.A. in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) program, was among about 20 91成人导航 students and three faculty members who attended the conference. Of those 20, 11 presented papers, workshops or posters.
The conference is organized by students and faculty at 91成人导航 and East Carolina University to provide a 鈥渟erious but relaxed鈥� for graduate students and professionals in linguistics to present their work, receive feedback, and network. 91成人导航 hosted the event in 2017 and will again on Feb. 9, 2019.
An M.A. in TESOL from 91成人导航 qualifies graduates to apply for full-time teaching in community colleges, private language academies, K-12 schools, university-based intensive English programs, and nonprofit service organizations.
For more information about the program, contact director Michelle Plaisance at 336-272-7102, ext. 5285, or email michelle.plaisance@greensboro.edu.
91成人导航 provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and, spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.
Founded in 1838 and located in downtown Greensboro, the college enrolls about 1,000 students from 29 states and territories, the District of Columbia, and seven foreign countries in its undergraduate liberal-arts program and four master鈥檚 degree programs. In addition to rigorous academics and a well-supported Honors program, the school features an 18-sport NCAA Division III athletic program and dozens of service and recreational opportunities.
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