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NYS TESOL Special Interest Groups (SIG)| >Applied
Linguistics >ESL in Adult Education >Teaching English Abroad >ESL in Elementary Education >ESL in Secondary Education >ESL in Higher Education >ESL in Bilingual Education |
NYS TESOL 2nd Annual Essay Contest
Winning Essays of last year's contest can be read here.
Dear NYS TESOL Members:
You may submit essays from your students on the following topic:
My Growth as an English Learner and a New American
Categories
- Grades 4-8
- Grades 9-12
- Adult & University
Qualifications
- Must be an English Language Learner or a recent ELL who moved to the mainstream by June 2006.
- Must be sponsored by a NYS TESOL member.
Guidelines for the Contest
- Essays will be written in English
- Essays will be submitted via e-mail
- Essays will be limited to 250 words
Essays will be judged according to
- Focus on the main ideas and development of theme
- Good planning and logical organization
- Varied sentence structure and emerging control of conventions of English
Please submit your students' essays to sigs@nystesol.org.
Deadline for receiving essays: June 30, 2007
Please include the cover sheet (pdf) with essays submitted.
Send questions to sigs@nystesol.org. Winners will be announced in Idiom and awarded prize and certificates at the November 2-3, 2007 NYS TESOL Conference in White Plains, N.Y. Best of luck to all.
Winning Essays of last year's contest can be read here.
updated on May 18, 2007
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