<font face="Default Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:18.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Times, serif; ">We cordially invite faculty members whose first language is other than English to participate in a panel entitled<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:18.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Times, serif; ">&nbsp;<b>&#8220;Beyond Grammar Textbooks&#8221;: A Conversation about Experiential Teaching with Bilingual Faculty <o:p></o:p></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:18.0pt;background:white"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Times, serif; ">Panel Chair: </span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Times, serif; ">Anahí Viladrich, Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology at Queens College<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:18.0pt;background:white"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Times, serif; ">Description</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:18.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Times, serif; ">In the context of the&nbsp;<b>Queens Consortium on LOTE First Conference on Language Teaching (Queens College on Friday, May 4^th)</b>, we invite faculty members (whose first language is other than English) to become active participants in a conversation about their experiences teaching in English. Language rules and barriers are dynamic and culturally-specific, as they involve not just the use of proper grammar rules, but a deeper understanding of the (often tricky), utilization of linguistic idioms and shared rules concerning body language. From homonyms that differ in meaning depending on the context to misplaced jokes faculty members, whose English is their second language, often struggle when trying to find the &#8220;right words and tone&#8221; when teaching and advising students.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Times, serif; ">This panel offers an opportunity to share the challenges along with the positive learning lessons that faculty, from different disciplinary fields and countries of origin, have drawn from their teaching experiences at the College level.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:18.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Times, serif; ">If you are interested, please contact Anahí Viladrich (<a href="mailto:anahi_viladrich@qc.cuny.edu">anahi_viladrich@qc.cuny.edu</a> or Beatriz Carolina Peña (beatriz.pena@qc.cuny.edu), co-organizers<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:18.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Times, serif; ">Thank you!</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:18.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; ">Anahí&nbsp;</span><font face="Times, serif"><span style="font-size: 19px;">and Beatriz</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p><span><br><br><br>- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -<br>Beatriz Carolina Peña, Ph.D.<br>Lecturer, Director of the Queens Consortium on LOTE (Languages Other Than English),<br>Director of the Basic and Intermediate Language Courses,<br>Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures,<br>Queens College<br>65-30 Kissena Blvd.,<br>Flushing, New York 11367<br>Office Phone: (718) 997-5635<br>Office location: Kiely Hall 243D</span><div><br><br>-----------------------------------------------------------------------<br>This communication (including any attachments) is intended solely for the<br>recipient(s) named above and may contain information that is confidential,<br>privileged or legally protected. Any unauthorized use or dissemination of<br>this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this<br>communication in error, please immediately notify the sender by return<br>email message and delete all copies of the original communication. Thank<br>you for your cooperation.<br><br></div></font>