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<p class="gmail-MsoBodyText" style="text-indent:0in;line-height:normal">Dear Edling Community,<br></p>

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<p class="gmail-MsoBodyText" style="text-indent:0in;line-height:normal">I
am currently seeking participation in a <b>survey</b>
study for my dissertation, and I hope that you might consider forwarding my
call for participants on to any friends or colleagues who might qualify.<span>  </span>The scope of my study has the potential to
help out both ESL students and content-area higher education faculty who have
these students in their classes.</p>

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<p class="gmail-MsoBodyText" style="text-indent:0in;line-height:normal">My
study is aimed at identifying <span>the
educational development needs of higher education faculty who currently work
with or have worked with students who have recently completed English language
courses (ESOL, ESL, EFL, etc.). The ultimate higher education faculty
participants in this study will not have a degree or specialization in working
with ELLs </span>(e.g., a background in linguistics, TESOL, ESL pedagogy, etc.),
but who are content-area faculty. The survey is titled: <b>Professional
Development in Higher Education: Working with English Language Learners.</b></p>

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<p class="gmail-MsoBodyText" style="text-indent:0in;line-height:normal"><span>If you might know of a colleague who meets
the conditions above, I hope that you will consider passing along the
invitation to participate, <b>they will be asked to take an electronic survey
that should take roughly 25-30 minutes to complete</b>. </span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Interested
participants can click on the following link or copy it to a web browser: </span><span><a href="https://goo.gl/fWT5sZ">https://goo.gl/fWT5sZ</a> </span></p>

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<p class="gmail-MsoBodyText" style="text-indent:0in;line-height:normal"><span>The survey will be available until <b>September
24^th, 2017 at 11:59pm ET</b>.</span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoBodyText" style="text-indent:0in;line-height:normal"><span> </span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoBodyText" style="text-indent:0in;line-height:normal"><span>Although I am looking for faculty who are not
specifically linguists or specialists in ESL/ESOL, I hope that you might consider passing
the request along. </span></p>

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<p class="gmail-MsoBodyText" style="text-indent:0in;line-height:normal"><span>Apologies in advance for any cross-postings.</span></p>

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<p class="gmail-MsoBodyText" style="text-indent:0in;line-height:normal"><span>Thank you in advance for your time and
consideration!</span></p>

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<p class="gmail-MsoBodyText" style="text-indent:0in;line-height:normal"><span>Respectfully,</span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoBodyText" style="text-indent:0in;line-height:normal"><span>Kevin Martin</span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoBodyText" style="text-indent:0in;line-height:normal"><span>Ph.D. in Education Candidate</span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoBodyText" style="text-indent:0in;line-height:normal"><span>Walden University</span></p>

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