The Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar

The Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar

The Eighth Annual ATEG Conference (July 18-19, 1997)
Professional Development Center
Pennsylvania College of Technology
Williamsport, PA 17701

Program

Friday, July 18, 1997
8:30 Registration (Coffee & Doughnuts)
9:00 Welcome to Penn College & ATEG, Brief Introduction of Featured Speakers
9:15 Martha Kolln, President of ATEG
9:45 "Grammar on NCTE-Talk" Reinhold Schlieper, (Daytona Beach, FL)
10:15 "Learning about Language - An International Look" Cornelia Paraskevas, (Monmouth, OR)
10:45 Break
11:00 "Introducing the KISS Grammar Game" Ed Vavra, (Williamsport, PA)
11:45 Lunch: Le Jeune Chef
1:30 "Going Toward a Grammatically Correct Marine Corps" Mary Ciske, (Alexandria, VA)
2:00 "The Grammar of Advertising" Jim Brosnan(Providence, RI)
2:30 "Ungrammatically Correct?: Modern Poetry and the Study of Grammar" Don Rhoads, (Lancaster, PA)
3:00 Break
3:15 "Putting It All Together" (Almost) a Whole Course in One Sentence" Linda Itzoe, (York, PA)
3:45 "Multimedia, Interactive Programs for Teaching English Grammar" Frank Peters, (Bloomsburg, PA)
4:15 Business Meeting

Saturday, July 19, 1997
8:30 Doughnuts & Coffee
9:00 "Extending the Reach of Grammar" Rei Noguchi, (Northridge, CA)
10:00 "Using Grammar Across the Curriculum" Bill McCleary, (Livonia, NY)
10:30 Break
10:45 "On the unsystematic and dysfunctional nature of systemic-functional grammar, or 'putting the cart before the horse'" Robert Yates, (Warrensburg, MO)
11:15 "Adverbs: Definitions Old and New" Brock Haussamen, (Bridgewater, N.J.)
11:45 "Evidence for a Semantics-Based Grammar" Linda DiDesidero, (Rockville, MD)
12:15 Lunch in the PDC
1:00 "Grammar in a Literature-Based Composition Course: The Clefts of Chopin" David Sawyer, (Brooklyn Park, MN)
1:30 "Discomfort and the Teaching of Writing: Can This Marriage Be Saved?" Marilyn Leahy, (Richmond, VA)
2:00 Q & A with Featured Speakers