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Conference Handouts and Power Points

On this page, you will find handouts and Power Points from selected presentations given at some of the confereces since 2003. You'll need to contact me (ajohns@cox.net) for handouts from other presentations, if I still have them. Some of my conference papers become publications, so visit the "Publications"link, as well.

Where will my work turn during 2012 and beyond? To the Common Core Standards already mandated in 45 states in the United States---because they are very good and much work needs to be done to ready teachers and curricula for them.

Carleton University, in Ottawa, hosted a wonderful conference (June, 2012) devoted exclusively to a topic that is of great interest not only to me but to many literacy practitioners throughout the world. There, I presented a talk, "Organizing and instantiating prior knowledge: Teaching reading through genre," and a workshop in which the arguments in the talk were developed.

At Antonine University, in Lebanon, I made a 2012 workshop presentation on English for Specific Purposes, This is a handout that accompanied the university's teacher training and curriculum development program.

I will have presented at three AVID National Conferences by 2012, addressing different topics at each one. At this 2010 conference, I discussed the successful undergraduate student.

Working with colleagues in Mexico on issues of publishing internationally, I presented a plenary at a conference in Xalapa, in 2009, attached here.

From the CATESOL Regional (San Diego), in 2008, .Literacy for Life: Best Practices for the Classroom".

AAAL (American Association of Applied Linguistics), 2006. "Beginning the Story: John Swales' Long and Distinguished Career." Presented at a colloqium entited "ESP, Genre, Corpus Linguistics, and Pedagogy: Papers in Honor of John M. Swales." Montreal, Canada.

TESOL, 2005, "How Can We Make Our Classrooms More Student-centered?" Presented at a colloqium entitled "Still More Enduring Questions in Teaching Writing". San Antonio, TX.

CATESOL, 2005, "Developing a Relevant Academic Writing Course". This link includes colloqium handouts for all presenters: Carol Lowther, Virginia Guleff, Maureen Sipp, and Ann Johns.

TESOL, 2004, "Defining and Teaching Genre," March/April, 2004, Long Beach, CA.

TESOL, 2004, "Preparing Students for College", a discussion.

TESOL, 2004, "Enduring Questions about Writing," (An energy break session).

MLA Conference, December 2003, "The Limits of Disciplinarity," San Diego, CA.