Organizer: Denise de Felice, Casa Thomas Jefferson
Moderator: Ke Xu, Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York
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Resources
for "Back to Basics:"
| Resource | Description | URL |
| Culture of the United States | a general overview | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_the_United_States |
| "Avoiding Plagiarism" | a tutorial on what plagiarism is, how it is viewed in the US, what the consequences are, and how to avoid it | http://www.mydistancecourses.org/owl/course/view.php?id=29 |
| ESL Writing Online Workshop (ESL-WOW) | free online multimedia program designed to guide non-native speakers of English through each stage of the writing process | http://www.eslwow.org/ |
| "Making Small Talk with Americans" | Alan Headbloom's checklist of which topics can be discussed with Americans |
http://www.headbloom.com/index.php/resources/post/making_small_talk_with_americans/ |
| "More Than Please and Thank You: Teaching Politeness Strategies" | article by Joanna J. Ghosh | http://newsmanager.commpartners.com/tesolheis/issues/2012-03-02/1.html |
| Let’s Hang Out Sometime… or German Directness in Texas | blog posting by "Sabrina," a German in Texas | http://countryskipper.com/2011/04/20/lets-hang-out-sometime-or-german-directness-in-texas/ |
| Personal Learning Network (PLN): | ||
| Tapped In | "online workplace of an international community of education professionals" | http://tappedin.org |
| TESOL | online discussions, courses, webinars | http://www.tesol.org |
| micro-blogging tool | http://www.twitter.com | |
| Webheads | "a world-wide, cross-cultural, and vibrant online-community of educators with an open enrollment for anyone who wants to join" | http://webheadsinaction.org |
*This page accompanies an InterSection presentation to be given at the TESOL conference in Philadelphia on March 30, 2012. The session is a collaboration of the English as a Foreign Language, Intercultural Communications, and Computer Assisted Language Learning Interest Sections of TESOL. |
Last modified: March 16, 2013