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The Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar

The Third Annual ATEG Conference (1992)

Program

Thursday, June 18
9:45 Registration (Coffee & Doughnuts)
10:15 Opening Remarks
10:30 "Language Planning in English Education Programs" Thomas Stroik, Morehead State University, KY
11:00 "Grammar as Method, not as a Subject" Marilyn Silva, California State University, Hayward, CA
11:30 "A Grammar for Teachers" Verna De Jong, Northwestern College, Orange City, IA
12:00 Lunch (le Jeune Chef). "Using Humor to Teach Grammar, or the Grammarian as Stand-up Comic" Frank Peters, Bloomsburg University
1:30 "Grammatical Competence and the Teaching of Grammar" Jim Kenkel, Eastern Kentucky University & Robert Yates, Central Missouri State University
2:00 "A Grammar for Editing" Carolyn Kirkpatrick, York College, CUNY
2:30 "Reducing Error in Student Writing" Peter Adams, Essex Community College, Baltimore, MD
3:00 Social Break
3:30 "Some Ideas about Computational Tools, Grammar, and the Teaching of Writing" Reinhold Schlieper, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Florida
4:00 "The Crime, or What We Need to Know about Students' Writing" Ed Vavra, Pennsylvania College of Tecvhnology
4:30 Open Forum: "What Should a High School Graduate Know about Grammar?" Martha Kolln, Penn State, moderator
5:30 Dinner Break
7:30 Business Meeting: "The Future of ATEG"

Friday, June 19th
8:30 Coffee
9:00 "Grammar for Writers: The Pedagogy of Commas & Periods" Alice Deakins, William Paterson College & Robert Viscount, Kingsborough Community College, CUNY
9:30 "Writing Skills vs. Writing Skill: An Ambiguity Feeding Arguments about Assessing" Mary Hall, University of Pittsburgh at Titusville
10:00 "Logical Grammar" David Harris, Tompkins Cortland Community College, NY
10:30 Break
11:00 "Grammar Portfolios" Cornelia Paraskevas, Western Oregon State University
11:30 "Grammar: A Linguist's Point of View" George Oliver, University of Maryland
12:00 Lunch
1:30 "Language in Orbit: Revisiting the Relative Clause" Janet Gilbert, Delta College, MI
2:00 "Separating Grammar from Error" Martha Kolln, Penn State University
2:30 "From Experience to Application: Learning to Teach ESL Grammar" Victoria Talbott, Western Washington University, Intl. English Language Institute
3:00 "Beyond Coloring: Visualizing the Language" Bernice Farrar, Seneca College of Applied Art & Technology, Toronto, Canada
3:30 Closing Session: Next year’s Conference
3:45 End of Conference