2006 Symposium - Responding to Multilingual Student Writers' Texts

The 2006 symposium, which focused on response to student writing, was divided into two sessions, each with a presentation followed by small group work. Participants spent the morning session discussing ways to approach or improve feedback on student writing, with special consideration given to the needs of multilingual student writing. In the afternoon, participants examined more specifically language-focused considerations in response, looking at two related questions: (1) Does error feedback help student writers at all? and (2) What principles and strategies might the “treatment of error” involve?

October 14, 2006

9:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
UC Berkeley Unit 2 Residential Complex

 

Dana Ferris

Dana Ferris is Professor of English at California State University, Sacramento, where she teaches MA TESOL, linguistics, and multilingual writing courses and serves as the ESL (Multilingual) Writing Coordinator. Her books include Response to Student Writing: Implications for Second Language Students (2003); Treatment of Error in Second Language Writing Classes (2002), and Teaching ESL Composition: Purpose, Process, and Practice (2nd Ed., with John Hedgcock, 2005).

Morning

• Introduction by Melinda Erickson and Morning Presentation by Dana Ferris (video currently unavailable)
• Introduction by Melinda Erickson and Morning Presentation by Dana Ferris (audio only - mp3)
• Morning Presentation handout (pdf)
• Morning Group Task A (pdf)
• Morning Group Task B (pdf)
• Morning Group Task C (pdf)
• Morning Group Task D (pdf)

Afternoon

• Afternoon Presentation (video currently unavailable)
• Afternoon Presentation (audio only- mp3)
• Afternoon Presentation handout (pdf)
• Afternoon Group Task A (pdf)
• Afternoon Group Task B (pdf)
• Afternoon Group Task C (pdf)
• Afternoon Group Task D (pdf)
• The 'Grammar Correction' Debate in L2 Writing
• Bibliography: Responding to Multilingual Student Writing (pdf)