Dana Ferris to keynote two international conferences
Dana Ferris, Associate Professor in the University Writing Program, will be a keynote speaker at two international conferences later this fall. The first presentation, entitled "Theory, Research, & Practice in Written Corrective Feedback: Bridging the Gap, or Crossing the Chasm?" will be delivered at the annual meeting of the Applied Linguistics Association of New Zealand on November 29. This paper is based on Prof. Ferris's research on the "treatment of error" in second language student writing. The second paper will be given at the biannual Tertiary Writing Network Symposium, a conference for college/university writing instructors in New Zealand and Australia, to be held on Dec. 2-3. Ferris's keynote address builds on the conference theme ("From Here to There") and is titled "Response to Student Writing: Before We Can Get 'There,' We Have to Know Where 'Here' Is." It will report on Ferris's current research on the philosophy and practices of college-level writing instructors with regard to feedback to student writers about their texts. Both of the conferences will be held at the Auckland University of Technology in Auckland, New Zealand.
Professor Ferris, who received her Ph.D. in applied linguistics from USC, is an internationally known scholar in the field of second language writing. She is a popular conference speaker and frequent workshop leader. Ferris has written or co-authored several books on the teaching of second language writing and second language reading and on response to student writing. Her teacher-preparation text, Teaching ESL Composition: Purpose, Process, and Practice (Ferris & Hedgcock, 2005, Erlbaum), now in its second edition, is considered the standard in the field. She also serves on the editorial advisory board of the Journal of Second Language Writing.
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