ELSP Workshops and Series
ELSP offers workshops for LGS as well as in collaboration with partners such as PDCP, CFDE, ISSS , and Office of Postdoctoral Education. Our workshops cover a range of topics related to multilingual graduate writing and speaking for both domestic and international audiences. All upcoming workshops are listed on the calendar at the bottom of our main page.
A sampling of past and ongoing workshops are found below.
Ongoing Groups and Workshops
Weekly Graduate Writing Group: This weekly writing group is hosted by ELSP and the Emory Writing Center. For the first hour and a half, you will write for three 25-minute intervals using the Pomodoro technique. In the last half hour, you will have the opportunity to receive feedback on your writing from a Writing Center tutor, an English Language Specialist, or continue working on your text. Express your interest at this link: http://forms.office.com/r/qF3LcWAKCa.
Professional Online Communication Series: In collaboration with the Office of Professional Development and Career Planning, this three to four series workshop focuses on communication in an online environment. Participants in this workshop series will learn strategies for employing written, verbal, and non-verbal professional communication in online formats such as over email and in Zoom. Topics covered include giving presentations, using effective body language, and developing networking relationships.
Writing Professional Opportunity Development Sessions: This four-series workshop provides effective writing strategies that can instantly improve the clarity, conciseness, and appeal of your academic writing across multiple fields. Sessions will cover such topics as reader expectations, organization, cohesion, and accuracy. You will also receive a one-on-one consultation session and individual feedback throughout the workshop on a current or past writing project.
Speaking Professional Opportunity Development Sessions: This four-series workshop aims to enhance your academic and professional spoken communication by providing clear strategies, practice, and feedback that you can apply immediately. Some of the areas that will be addressed include vocal characteristics, organizational strategies, gesturing and body language, pacing and pausing, and presentation performance. You will also receive a one-on-one consultation session following the second workshop, as well as individual feedback on the audio and video recordings you submit throughout the series.
Engaging multilingual students
This workshop is for Faculty and TAs of multilingual students. In this session, participants learn classroom strategies that can be immediately implemented to better support and engage multilingual speakers. We review how to use the Corpus of Contemporary American English to support writing development and frameworks like PREP and STAR to support speaking in the classroom. The tools introduced in this session are geared towards international students, but could easily be modified to address any first-generation multilingual learner. Sharing of ideas and practices among participants is encouraged.
Providing Multilingual Students Feedback on Written Assignments
This workshop is for TAs who have multilingual students in their classes. In this session, participants will learn classroom strategies that can be immediately implemented to better support and engage their multilingual writers. We will review some fundamental tools and strategies to address writing feedback and how to use the Corpus of Contemporary American English. The tools introduced in this session will be geared towards international students, but could easily be modified to address any multilingual learner. Sharing of ideas and practices among participants will be encouraged.
Independent English language learning through SMART goals
This hands-on workshop helps participants create SMART goals for independent language learning
Tools to Improve Grammar and Word Choice When Writing
This workshop introduces you to numerous online resources, including Google Scholar and the American Corpus, to improve your grammar and word choice when writing. This hands-on session includes multiple opportunities to use each tool.
Explaining field-specific terms to a general audience
Communicating science at a level that non-experts can easily understand is a valuable yet difficult task. In this interactive workshop designed for multilingual postdoctoral fellows, faculty from the English Language Support Program will present various communication techniques and language strategies for illustrating technical terms to more general audiences.