CFP: Teaching the Formulaic Lexicon, New York City

[Angus Grieve-Smith]

     My colleague Ninah Beliavsky is organizing this conference here in 
New York on the application of formulaic lexicography to teaching 
English.  I hope to see some of you there!

                 -Angus B. Grieve-Smith
                 Saint John's University
                 grvsmth at panix.com


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*From:* Jeffrey Fagen
*Sent:* Monday, December 09, 2013 4:01 PM
*To:* Jeffrey Fagen
*Subject:* FW: Conference on the Manhattan Campus: Teaching the 
Formulaic Lexicon

****PLEASE SEE THE ATTACHED CALL FOR PAPERS****

*One of the main features of Academic Discourse is the use of "Preforms" 
or Preformulations, which are known as chunks, lexical phrases or 
formulaic sequences.  It is a remarkably promising activity in 
intermediate and advanced ESL classes to teach students (1) some of the 
more popular Preforms,  (2) the methods of recognizing them in texts, 
and (3) the manner in which they can be used with great effect.  
Students are very enthusiastic about learning to write beginning 
Academic English. *

*            This has been done by Dr. Ninah Beliavsky and Dr. Clyde 
Coreil, co-chairs of the conference on "Teaching the Formulaic Lexicon." 
Methods based on this principle will be the focus of fifteen, 25-minute 
presentations plus two plenary addresses. The place is St. John's 
University Manhattan Campus. The date is April 19, 2014. The fee is $65. 
Full versions of the 300-3,000 wordpresentations will be printed in 
proper book form by September 1, 2014.*

*            Some of the methods are discussed in great detail in 
Coreil's /Term Papers and Academic Writing: Setting New Parameters/ 
available on Amazon.com. *

Dr. Ninah Beliavsky

Associate Professor

Dept. Languages and Literatures

Coordinator of ESL

Modern Hebrew

St. John's University

St. John Hall 434f

8000 Utopia Parkway

Queens, NY 11439

718-990-5262

718-990-1929

beliavsn at stjohns.edu <mailto:beliavsn at stjohns.edu>