2nd Annual SLS Symposium

The symposium is behind us and less things are on my to do list. :-) I was very impressed with our students, the quality of their work and the confidence with which they presented it. It was really good to see. Our guests and visitors echoed that sentiment (which of course made me even prouder of our students). John Norris and Judy Kroll also - as was expected - gave very interesting and engaging plenary talks. For my research and my position, John Norris' work is really important. I was so proud that even one of our German literature professors was in attendance. Always good to see people crossing departmental and disciplinary boundaries.

I want to thank

• the guest speakers, Judy Kroll and John Norris
• all the wonderful student presenters, Jamie Thomas, Ben White, Hiep Chau, Mark Shea, Sara Hillman, Kimi Nakatsukasa, Luke Plonsky, and Ching-Ni Hsieh
• the College of Arts and Letters, the English Language Center and the Second Language Studies Program for their financial support
• my co-organizers, Rebecca Foote and Kimi Nakatsukasa
• our helpers, Joan Reid and Russ Werner
• the audience members including but not limited to my colleagues from German Tom Lovik and Pat McConeghy, our colleage Anne Violin-Wigent from French, our colleague from Linguistic Grover Hudson, our visiting teachers from Germany, as well as several new to me faces from French, Spanish, Teacher Education, the ELC, and Psychology. And of course the many students from the MA TESOL program, the SLS program, and the programs already mentioned who attended the conference.

VIELEN DANK!