Keynote Speakers for 2004 KATESOL Spring Conference
March 12-13, 2004, in Hays, Kansas
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Jacqueline Boyd is an Education Psychology Instructor at Haskell Indian Nations University School of Education in Lawrence, Kansas. Her primary responsibilities include teaching, academic advising, and supervising student teachers. She is also the placement coordinator and Haskell KNEA SP advisor. She has undergraduate degrees in Business Management from New Mexico State University and Elementary Education from Haskell Indian Nations University. Her graduate degree is from University of Kansas in Special Education emphasizing Early Childhood Handicapped. Prior to becoming a university instructor, she was a 5th grade teacher in Leavenworth, Kansas. She is certified to teach K-9th grade and birth to age 5 in early childhood handicapped. She has presented at national conferences and local public schools on topics related to Indian Education. She is a member of the National Indian Education Association (NIEA), Council of Exceptional Children (CEC) and Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD). She is also a tribal member of San Juan and San Felipe Pueblo in New Mexico and Dine (Navajo) from Lukachukai, Arizona.
Rebecca J. Kopriva is Director of the Center for the Study of Assessment Validity and Evaluation (C-SAVE), which is housed in the Department of Measurement, Statistics, and Evaluation at the University of Maryland. Formerly she was Associate Professor in the California State University System, state testing director, and consultant for test publishers, the U.S. Department of Education, national legal and policy groups, and a variety of states and districts. Dr. Kopriva is a researcher and publishes and presents regularly on the theory and practice of improving large-scale test validity and comparability in general. She also is a leader in addressing these topics as they relate to the measurement of academic knowledge and skills in racial, cultural, and ethnic minority students and students with disabilities. She has published books, monographs, research articles, and implementation papers. Four in the last year that are currently published or in press address civil rights issues in high stakes testing, and the theoretical and practical implications of inclusive policies to assessment development, test selection and the custom retrofitting of standard assessments in order to improve the quality of large scale test results for students who are English language learners.
Stephen Krashen is Professor Emeritus of Learning and Instruction, at the University of Southern California. He is an expert in the field of linguistics, specializing in theories of language acquisition and development. Much of his research has involved the study of non-English and bilingual language acquisition. Recently Dr. Krashen's research has focused on reading and its effects on language acquisition and academic success. In the late 1970s, Stephen Krashen began promoting the "natural approach" to language teaching, which he laid out in a landmark text he co-wrote with Tracy Terrell. His ideas about the difference between learning and acquisition have strongly influenced the field of ESL/EFL for several decades. He has published hundreds of books and articles and has been invited to deliver over 500 lectures at universities throughout the United States and the rest of the world. In the past five years, Stephen Krashen has fought to save whole language and bilingual education in the United States and, more recently, has been lobbying for "recreational reading" and better stocked school libraries because of research relating both to higher achievement.
Joy Reid is a Professor of English at the University of Wyoming, where she teaches ESL courses, linguistics, and composition, prepares ESL teachers. She is director of the ESL support program and works with the Wyoming ESL certification program. She has written textbooks and teacher-resource books on ESL writing and edited two anthologies about ESL students and learning styles. Her research interests include ESL writing assessment, ESL learning styles, and the change process. Currently she is completing an introduction to linguistics book and serving as a co-editor of an ESL series for Houghton-Mifflin. She has a daughter who teaches at Oklahoma State University and a
son who is an organic farmer of 40 acres outside of Victor, Idaho. Kumu, which means "teacher"
in Hawaiian, is her Birmalayan cat. The spring of 2004 is Joy Reid's final semester at the University
of Wyoming. She is retiring and moving full-time to Maui, where she appreciates "the diversity,
the anonymity and the weather." She especially enjoys tai-chi, mystery writer Janet Evanovich
and TCBY.
Andy Tompkins is the Commissioner of Education for the State of Kansas, and
has served in this capacity since 1996. Dr. Tompkins is recognized as one of the finest
leaders in education, and has earned numerous awards, including Kansas Superintendent of
the Year (1991-1992). He has also been asked to serve as chairperson for many state
and national organizations and committees.
Bill VanPatten is Professor of Spanish and Linguistics, and Director of the Spanish Basic Language Program, at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His principal areas of research are (1) the development of a theory of input processing in second language acquisition that uses both cognitive and linguistic approaches; (2) the impact of formal instruction on language acquisition and by extension; (3) the development of explicit grammar instruction that is psycholinguistically motivated. Bill VanPatten's research goals include the unification of linguistic and non-linguistic approaches to studying language acquisition, in addition to linking the disciplines of second language acquisition theory and language teaching. In 1992, Bill VanPatten served as the Chief Academic and Designer of the WGBH (Boston) National Telecourse/Video Project Destinos: An Introduction to
Spanish. This $5 million project, funded by the Annenberg Foundation, is a weekly PBS serial of
52 episodes, applying comprehension based language teaching to home learning of Spanish. His most recent text for ESOL and teachers of other languages is From Input to Output: A Teacher’s Guide to Second Language Acquisition (2003, McGraw-Hill).
For more information about the conference, and for an online
proposal submission form, KATESOL members and their colleagues
are invited to access www.fhsu.edu/katesol/spring2004 .
Pearson ESL, Longman and Hampton-Brown are among the first
publishers who have indicated they will have representatives
at the 2004 KATESOL Spring Conference to share the latest
ESOL materials and resources. The KATESOL/BE Web site,
www.fhsu.edu/katesol , is the best place to go for
the latest information about what promises to be one of
the most exciting, enjoyable and productive meetings of
language teaching professionals in the 21 year history of
our organization. Please do plan to attend.
The 2004 KATESOL Spring Conference Planning Committee:
Robb Scott, Chair, 2004 KATESOL Spring Conference
Fort Hays State University
785-628-5568 / rbscott@fhsu.edu
Peggy Hull, Conference Co-chair, Community College Liaison
Dodge City Community College
phull@dccc.cc.ks.us
Steve Wolf, Conference Co-chair, Pre-K to 12 Liaison
USD 428 Great Bend Public Schools
stevewolf41@hotmail.com
Janet Booth, Conference Co-chair, Publishers Liaison
USD 233 Olathe Public Schools
jboothht@mail.olathe.k12.ks.us
Don Blackman, Conference Co-chair, KATESOL/BE Liaison
Second Vice-President, KATESOL/BE
dblackman@direcpc.com
Nicole Cook, Conference Co-chair, Host Institution Liaison
Hays Language Institute, FHSU, Hays, KS
785-628-2121 / ncook@fhsu.edu
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