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Nicholas Sammond replied to the topic Special Screening of Head Hunters at MLA Vancouver in the forum
Film on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoDear Brad–
Thanks for the update, and for the screening!
Best,
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Marie-Eve Monette replied to the topic Special Screening of Head Hunters at MLA Vancouver in the forum
Film on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoPerfect, I will do that. I look forward to seeing this fim, and meeting you and the participants of your session on the 9th!
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Brad Evans replied to the topic Special Screening of Head Hunters at MLA Vancouver in the forum
Film on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoYou can purchase tickets in advance at the Vancity website:
http://www.viff.org/theatre/series/vancity-theatre-screening
Thanks for the interest!
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Marie-Eve Monette replied to the topic Special Screening of Head Hunters at MLA Vancouver in the forum
Film on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoThis is fantastic! I already wanted to attend the session, so I definitely want to see this film. Do we need to get tickets in advance though, or is it first come, first seated? Thanks for the information! 🙂
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Marie-Eve Monette replied to the topic Special Screening of Head Hunters at MLA Vancouver in the forum
Film on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoThis is fantastic; I definitely want to see this film. Do we need to get tickets in advance though, or is it first come, first seated? Thanks for the information! 🙂
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Brad Evans started the topic Special Screening of Head Hunters at MLA Vancouver in the forum
Film on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoSpecial Centenary Film Screening:Â In the Land of the Head Hunters (1914)
Vancity Theater, Saturday, January 10, Noon
http://www.viff.org/theatre/series/vancity-theatre-screening
In the Land of the Head Hunters was the first feature film made in B.C. and is the oldest extant feature made in Canada. It’s also the first feature made with an ent…[Read more]
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MarĂa Gil Poisa uploaded the file: CFP: Body Memory Trauma // Exhibition: Water, Art, Women, Life to
Film on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months ago5th Hispanic Studies Graduate Conference with the title of “Body, Memory, Trauma”, an interdisciplinary academic event open to every interested scholar. The conference will take place on March 6th and 7th in College Station/Bryan (Texas), together with an Italian-Argentinean artistic exhibition with the title of “Water, Art, Women, Life”, devoted…[Read more]
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Lisa Stein Haven started the topic Call for Papers: American Humor Studies at ALA in the forum
Film on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoAmerican Literature Association
26th Annual Conference
May 21-24, 2015
The Westin Copley Place

10 Huntington Avenue
,
Boston MA 02116-5798Conference Director:
Olivia Carr Edenfield,
Georgia Southern UniversityConference Fee: For those who pre-register before April 15, 2015: $90
 ($60 for Graduate Students, Independent Scholars, and Retired…[Read more]
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Jessica Winston replied to the topic ISU Ph.D. in English and the Teaching of English in the forum
The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 11 years, 3 months agoDear Sanjeev,
Thank you for your interest in our program. I will reply to you directly via e-mail. Please be aware that this forum distributes messages to all members of the forum/group.
Yours sincerely,
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Jessica Winston started the topic ISU Ph.D. in English and the Teaching of English in the forum
The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 11 years, 4 months agoDear Forum Members,
For anyone who might be interested in pursuing a Ph.D., with the aim of teaching at a two-year college, I wanted to draw your attention to the Idaho State University Ph.D. in English and the Teaching of English, which is program that prepares students for this type of job.
The Ph.D. is a distinctive program that integrates…[Read more]
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Francesco Levato replied to the topic Minorities and the Writing Classroom in the forum
The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 11 years, 6 months agoHi Pedro,
Below is an article that might be of interest:The Place of World Englishes in Composition: Pluralization Continued
Abstract:
Contesting the monolingualist assumptions in composition, this article identifies textual and pedagogical spaces for World Englishes in academic writing. It presents code meshing as a strategy for merging local…[Read more] -
Hilarie Ashton started the topic CFP NeMLA 2015: Growth in Writing, Teaching, and Learning in the forum
The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months ago46th Annual NeMLA Conference
April 30 – May 3, 2015
Toronto, CanadaSubmission Deadline: September 30, 2014
Growth in Writing, Teaching, and Learning
In his classic composition text Writing Without Teachers, Peter Elbow asks us to consider the metaphor of growing as a way to encourage and teach fluid, flexible writing. The idea of growth…[Read more]
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Sarah G. Wenzel started the topic Review & Comment on Draft Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Ed. in the forum
The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoForgive me for cross-posting, please.
The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) adopted the Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education in 2000. Frequently, as you know, information literacy has been combined with English or writing courses. The ACRL Board of Directors has appointed a task force to significantly…[Read more]
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Sarah G. Wenzel started the topic Review & Comment on Draft Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Ed. in the forum
The History and Theory of Rhetoric and Composition on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoMembers of this group may be familiar with the Association of College and Research Libraries’ (ACRL) Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education in 2000. Frequently, as you know, information literacy has been combined with English or writing courses. The ACRL Board of Directors has appointed a task force to significantly revise…[Read more]
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Laura E. Savu started the topic Call for Contributions: "The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context" in the forum
Film on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoDear colleagues,
I’m writing to invite you to submit proposals for a collection of essays that is tentatively titled The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context. The essays need to focus on the discourses and practices of the good life, understood in all of its dimensions—material, psychological, ethical, spiritual, etc. –and appro…[Read more]
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Sylvie Eve Blum-Reid uploaded the file: International Jarmusch colloquium/ April 2014 Call for papers to
Film on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoAppel Ă communications
Colloque international Français/Anglais
Le cinéma de Jim Jarmusch
8-9 avril 2015, UniversitĂ© d’Artois, Arras (Pas-de-Calais), France
Organisatrice : Esther Heboyan-
the Jarmusch Colloquium is in French and/or English (see flyer)
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Erin Garner replied to the topic Minorities and the Writing Classroom in the forum
The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoThe sociolinguists have produced a good amount of work on this subject. I recommend Anne H. Charity Hudley and Christine Mallinson’s Understanding English Language Variation in U.S. Schools (2011) as a good reference and a good start. As a grad student and a tutor, I have come across similar situations with ESL and African American students w…[Read more]
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Pamela Herron replied to the topic Minorities and the Writing Classroom in the forum
The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoHello Pedro,
My university is right on the Texas/Mexican border so the overwhelming majority of our students learned Spanish first and English is their second language. We also have a large number of Mexican nationals who attend along with students from other foreign countries. My experience is that our weakest students are the ones who have come…[Read more]
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Shanda H. Easterday replied to the topic Minorities and the Writing Classroom in the forum
The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoHi Pedro, I often encounter minorities in my classrooms, and, because they are online classes, I sometimes feel handicapped when I respond to them. They cannot see my smile or the twinkle in my eye as I try to reassure them that their command of English is excellent but spelling, grammar, language usage and sentence structure problems are g…[Read more]
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Pedro Esteban Ponce started the topic Minority Students and the Writing Classroom in the forum
The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoHello:
I recently observed a colleague making disparaging remarks about the language skills of an ESL student. While my colleague believed the student’s English was weak, I thought there was noticeable development. The difference in perception made me wonder if U.S. minority students and/or students in the U.S. from abroad experience problems in…[Read more]
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