Author Archives: Allison Clark

Culturally Responsive Teaching for ESL Students Culturally responsive teaching is the idea that our students come from a variety of backgrounds, and have a variety of stories. To be a culturally responsive teacher, you must not only recognize this, but endorse it and make space in your classroom for unique behaviors and literacies (Gay, 2018).Continue reading “Post 4: Culturally Responsive Teaching for ESL Students”

Brief Summary I am going to examine genre through the lens of a teacher, me, who teaches with a genre based syllabus. I will first explain the definition of genre that I will be using, which is a combination of linguistic and rhetorical definitions. I will then explain the syllabus I teach with and thenContinue reading “Post 3: Genre Based Teaching”

The Discourse of My Time at NAU A discourse community is socially situated and rule governed, and relates to both participation in and learning how to be a part of the community (Swales, 1993; Gee, 1999). Discourse communities are co-constructed (Flowerdew & Miller, 2005), moderated, and ever changing. For linguists, our seminal text on discourseContinue reading “Post 2: The Discourse of My Time at NAU”

Introduction Recently, I began the final semester in my contract as a Graduate Teaching Assistant at Northern Arizona University. Unlike many GTAs, in my department, we are the teachers of record. I have been teaching in some capacity for about 5 years, and this GTA position has been both a challenge and a blast. MyContinue reading “Post 1: Revising an ESL Course for a Modern Age”