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	Welcome to Dr. Anasuya Pal's pages at the San Bernardino Valley College. Here you will learn about my Engl-015 classes, research interests, readings and travels and links to some other sites of ESL interest.

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	Professional distinctions/honors;
	Research Interests; and
	Research Reports, and Papers etc.

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Professional distinctions/honors:

I have been listed in the "WHO'S WHO AMONG AMERICA'S TEACHERS, 1996"
(The Best Teachers in America Selected by the Best Students, published by the Educational Communications Inc.)

Research Interests:

My primary research focus has been on psycholinguistics and reading. Click on the following to read some of my research notes on these topics and/or issues.

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Click here for the results of my recent survey: "Now You Know". This survey was conducted with the active participation of my Engl-914 and Engl-015 students with the express intention of helping them realize why learning grammatical items is important.

Cultural Differences and ESL Pedagogy

The Learning Strategies of ESL Learners

Psycholinguistics and Second Language Acquisition

The Sociolinguistic Insights for ESL Instruction at the San Bernardino Valley College

Tidal wave 1.5 and the preparation for "College English"

Research Reports, Publications and the Conference Papers/Presentations:

Monographs/Reports:

"TEACHING ENGLISH AS A SECOND/FOREIGN LANGUAGE USING PAULO FRIERE'S PROBLEM-POSING APPROACH"
CNPq (Brazilian National Council of Research) and Catholic University of Sao Paulo, Brazil: October 1989.

"IMPLICATIONS OF ESL THEORY FOR THE ENGLISH PROGRAM AT SBVC"
A report on the studies conducted during the fall 2001 sabbatical leave (San Bernardino Valley College, Spring 2002). Click on the title to read this report as a PDF document.

Participation in Seminars/Conferences:

March 6-9, 2000: participated in the workshop on "Multimedia-based ESL Teaching", TESOL International Conference, Vancouver, Canada.

March 1998: participated in the workshop on "Reading", TESOL International Conference, Seattle, WA.

March 22, 1996: Telecourse Workshop, Pasadena City College, Pasadena, CA.

November 4, 1995: Los Angeles Area Regional CATESOL Conference, California State Univ., Los Angeles, CA.

July 2-14, 1995: 1995 TESOL Institute on Peace education, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, VT.

March 28-April 1, 1995: Twenty-Ninth TESOL Annual convention and Exposition, San Diego, CA.

Research Papers:

"Teaching Reading — Applying the insights from Thorndike to Goodman"
Paper presented at the workshop on 'The Use of Internet in Teaching ESL', CATESOL Annual Conference, Sacramento, California, April 2000.

"Teaching Reading"
A paper presented at the TESOL/CLAD Conference on 'Cross Cultural Language and Academic Development', UCR Extension, University of California, Riverside, May 1999.

"Reading — Insights since Thorndike 1909"
Paper presented at the TESOL/CLAD Conference, UCR Extension, University of California, Riverside, May 1998 (session presentation)

"Learning strategies for ESL students"
Paper presented at the TESL Conference, UCR Extension, University of California, Riverside, January 20, 1996 (session presentation)

"The problem-solving strategy for teaching ESL"
Paper presented at CATESOL Annual Convention, San Diego, April 1994.

"Using Friere’s Problem-posing strategy in ESL class"
Paper presented at the San Diego Regional CATESOL Conference, October 16, 1993.

"Problem-posing in the EFL/ESL classroom" The ESPecialist, vol. 11, pp. 59-74 (1990).

"Reading in a second/foreign language - a conceptual appraisal"
The ESPecialist, vol. 10, pp. 1-24 (1989).

"Remedial teaching of English grammar - an experiment in applied psycholinguistics"
IRAL (International Review of Applied Linguistics), v. 20, pp. 152-160 (1982)

"Reading - a global concern" CIEFL (Central Institute of English & Foreign Languages) Newsletter, no. 22, pp. 11-14 (1976).

"GUME Project - a review" CIEFL (Central Institute of English & Foreign Languages) Newsletter, no. 16, pp. 23-24 (1974).

"Comparison of two ELT procedures - an experiment in applied psycholinguistics"
CIEFL (Central Institute of English & Foreign Languages) BULL., no. 10, pp. 47-72 (1974).

"An experimental study of two alternative procedures for teaching the set English text in class IX", CIEFL (Central Institute of English & Foreign Languages) BULL., no. 9, pp. 59-73 (1973).

Links to some sites of professional interest:

TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other languages) is an international professional association of the ESL/EFL/ESOL teachers and educators (URL: http://www.tesol.org/)

The Web site of CATESOL (California Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages) is http://www.catesol.org/

Here are some links of interest to the students and teachers of English as a Second Language, maintained by The Internet TESL Journal (URL: http://iteslj.org/links/)