LLE Newsletter Spring 2010 - Penn GSE - University of Pennsylvania

YEAR IN REVIEW
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2009 Nessa Wolfson Colloquium
"Alphabetic Literacy Level and Oral L2 Processing."
Dr. Tarone, a Distinguished Teaching Professor in Second Language Studies and
the director of the Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition
(CARLA) at the University of Minnesota, delivered the Nessa Wolfson Colloquium
on September 30, 2009.
2009 Graduation Awards
Nessa Wolfson/Dell Hymes Award—Erin Kearney
Educational Linguistics International Award—Hye Seung Romy Sung
RWL Ralph C. Preston Award—Robert Simon
RWL Morton Botel Award—Maria Ghiso
RWL Teacher Education Award—Hillary Ehling
RWL Master’s Program Award for Exemplary Portfolio—
Teresa Ahn, Nora Peterman, Connie Schallau
CONGRATULATIONS!
Penn-Kings Link
The Penn-King’s collaboration between faculty and doctoral students at
Penn GSE and King’s College London now has a blackboard site in which
doctoral students and faculty from both schools can post their biographies and interests. The goal
going forward is that in addition to videoconferences throughout the academic year and annual visits
by King’s faculty and students to Penn during the Ethnography in Education Forum, participants in
the Penn-King’s link will be able to use blackboard to engage in ongoing conversations in which
faculty and staff with shared interests can discuss articles, research ideas, and possible collaborative
presentations or papers. All Language and Literacy doctoral students are invited to participate in the
blackboard site so that they can form connections among colleagues working on similar research
endeavors and engage in international cross-talk around their work. For more information on getting
involved please contact RWL doctoral candidate Miriam Fife (mfife@dolphin.upenn.edu).