The Independent Professional Project (IPP) is a written thesis from the Master of Arts in TESOL Programs. Intended for second language teachers, it details a significant personal experience that is of interest and value to others in the profession. It may take the form of an academic research paper, a classroom-based action research project, a materials development project, an exchange group leadership project, or a language/culture study abroad project.

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Submissions from 2000

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ESL Mentoring: An Empowering Tool, Maria Cristina Tur

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Error Analysis and Curriculum Development in an EFL Classroom in Taiwan, Meng Teh Wu

Submissions from 1999

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Council in the Classroom: New Ways of Knowing, Being and Interacting, Ximena Allub

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Internet Users’ Manual for English Language Teaching Professionals: Enjoyable Internet Understanding, Jack Bailey

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International Business and Culture Course Development and Teacher Growth, Deborah Lang Bainbridge

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Traditional vs. Non-Traditional Blocks of Time in Relationship to Teaching and Learning: An Independent Professional Project, Susan W. Chilson

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Toward Student-Led Reading Discussion in the Classroom: A Teacher’s Journey with Reader Response, Judy Davis

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Timed Conversation: One Routine for Engaging Large Classes of Non-Motivated Learners in Meaningful Oral Communication, Bradley J. Deacon

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Closure: A Forgotten Aspect of English as a Second Language Teaching Pedagogy, Connie J. Douglass

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Defining Humanistic Philosophy, Pedagogy and Teaching Practices in Relation to English Language Teaching, Robert G. Emigh

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Adapting the C-L/CLL Approach to a Conventional Textbook Setting: A Novice Teacher’s Reality, Laura Fleher

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English Teachers in the Former G.D.R. Ten Years After the WENDE: What’s New?, Renée Flibotte-Lüskow

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Language Learning Strategies: A Primer, Carol Lindenbrock Fujii

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The Transition to a Project-Based Curriculum, Cheryl Hoffman

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Serving ESOL Recipients in a Welfare to Work Program, Dawn Elizabeth Jackman

Submissions from 1987

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Using a Community Language Learning Approach in Large Classes in Japanese Universities, Carl Russel Adams

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An Introduction to Reading Comprehension Through Exercise for Intermediate English as a Second Language and English for Foreign Language Students, Natalie Barbera

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Second Language Acquisition in the Field: A Personal Experience, Mary Chase Dindorf

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Living to Learn in Italy, Margo L. Connell

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“RITMOS” Rhythmic Spanish Poems and Dialogues, Veronica Darer

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Meetings Without Measure: A Process of Understanding, Lassie (M.F.) Dudley

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Planning Task-Oriented Field Trips for Beginning ESL Students, Nikki Sarita Ellman

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In Preparation: Lesson Plans for an Intensive German Course, Renate Falk Cammin

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Choices, Changes and Challenges: A Skills-Building Game for the ESL Classroom, Mark Feder

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The Advantages of the Shared Reading Experience for Bilingual Elementary Students, Barbara A.T. Franceschini

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An Eclectic Approach to Teaching a French Intermediate Class, Sylvia Marie Gaudet

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A Beginner’s Guide to Teaching ESL Abroad, Peter Goldstone

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Country Music: Access to American Culture in the ESL Classroom, Deborah Hadas

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A Video Curriculum for the Listening Comprehension Classes of the Center for Intensive English Language Studies in Islamabad, Pakistan, John J. Hagedorn

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Listening Formative Test Description and Samples Based on the Curriculum Open Lines 1, Eko Deddy Haryanto

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Storytelling in a Second-language and Cross-cultural Education: A Positive Approach to the Learner’s Unconscious Potential, Cynthia A. Jaffe

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“Real-Life Situations in the United States” A Cross-Cultural Handbook, Jeetendra Raj Joshee

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Increasing Cultural Awareness Through Writing Activities, Blaire Rankin Kibley

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Teaching Teachers: Starting, Sharing, Shaping, Synthesizing, Emilie Anne Krustapentus

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Analysis of the Learning Problems Experienced by Japanese LEP Students and Suggestions for Global Bilingual Assessment, Ryuko Kubota

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Listening Comprehension in a First-Year Spanish Comprehension Course: Background and Activities, Lois F. Lafferty

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Motivation: Issues and Implications for the Classroom, Steven J. Lonning

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A Self-Awareness Centered Approach to Curriculum Development, Elaine Lucas Hayes

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The Cartoon Cookbook – A Collection of Stories for Teaching ESL, Carolyn Marie Manzi

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Transactions: Chapter 1 of a Proposed 10 Chapter Business English Video Text, Clifford Trevor Meyers

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The Migrant Reading Program at San Elizario, Texas; an Examination of the Activities of 1986-87, Robert Scott Morris

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Model Exercises for Learning Communication Strategies, Daryl Newton

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Teaching/Training Social Language in Galang Refugee Camp: A Learning Process, Jon Phillips

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Listening to Natural English: A Manual for Teachers, William Robbins

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Dyslexia and Language Acquisition, Bridget Ann Siedler

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Attitude and Perception Differences When Speaking in a Second Language, Keith Douglas Smith

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SHORTCUTS A Text and Workbook, Fred Eric Startz

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Ten Basic Grammar Hurdles for Mandarin Chinese Speakers: A Contrastive Guide for the Beginning Teacher of Adult Mandarin Chinese EFL Students, Mark Anthony Steele

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Handbook for Prospective ESL Teachers to Japan, Linda Veno-Kan

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Lesson Plans for the First Day of Class, Debra Lillian Weber-Fincher

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A Planning Paper Monolingual to Bilingual: The Conceptualization and Transformation of a Colombian School, Eileen Nancy Whelan

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Teaching in the Silent Way With a Focus on Idioms, Cynthia S. Wiseman

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CAVEPEOPLE! And Other Roleplays for Students of English as a Second Language, James Zorn

Submissions from 1986

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A Ten-Week Internship Teaching Literacy to Adult Refugees: Pre-Literate, Semi-Literate and Non-Literate., Rebecca Ann Boon

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Readings in American History and Culture for Japanese College Students A Materials Development Program, Teresa Bruner Cox

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Eighteen Language Teaching Techniques: A Report on a Chinese Tutorial, Yalin Chen

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ESL Curriculum Development in Southeast Asia: A Personal Account, Kathleen M. Corey

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With Assumptions in Mind, Claire Eleanor Creelman

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Using and Teaching Language in an Emerging World Culture, Anna Cecelia Dahland

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A Teacher Training Program Focusing on Communicative Methodology for Brazilian Teachers of English as a Foreign Language, Alberto de Paula Santos

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Materials Development Project: The Development of an ESL Program at MCI-Framingham, Sara Dunham

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In Preparation Lesson Plans for an Intensive German Course, Renate Falk Cammin

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Beyond the Classroom: Teaching ESL to Adult Indochinese Refugees via Experiential Activities, Andres Ray F. Reyes

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“El Puente” An Advanced Spanish Reader for Cultural Exposure, Angela Maria Garcia Mast

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Conducting Workshops That Assist Content Area Teachers With ESL Students: Two Models, Janet Sue Gerba

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A Collection of Original Stories and Lessons for Teaching Idiomatic Expressions, Elisabeth C. Glister

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Becoming Professional, Shawn Elyn Gutshall

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Syllabus Guideline for the Congress Bundestag Language Training Program with Sample Lesson Plans for Structural, Sociolinguistic, and Cultural Specifics plus Comments on the Academic Preparation Component of the Program, Ursula Verena Holzer

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A Communicative Approach to Teaching Phrasal Verbs, Kathleen Ann Ivins

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Using a Computer With the Language Experience Approach, Carol Marie Jennings

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Welcome to New York City Community Orientation Programs for International Students, Stacey Klein

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Using Music to Teach Spanish, Isabel Lowrie Childs

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English for Operating a Small Business, Joseph Thomas McBride Jr.

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Recipes for Teaching English as a Second Language, Lynn McMichael

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Beginning an ESL Program: Underlying Issues and Site-Specific Recommendations, Jonathan D. Reasoner

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Beginning ESL Reader – A Teacher’s Guide, Ann Catherine Smith

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The Subjunctive as an ESL Teaching Tool With Emphasis on the Modal Verbs, Burr Thomas

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Developing Awareness of Feedback in Teachers and Students (A Survey of Feedback in Education and Three Teacher-Training Workshops), Paola Tomai

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A Cultural Program: Cultural Awareness Activities for American High School Students, Susan Leslie Tomasello

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Combining Process and Product in a Business Writing Course, Stephen Ellis Turner

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Presenting Cultural Awareness, Andrew Willimetz

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Independence in Language Learning: How can Teachers Encourage it?, Diane Ethel Witters

Submissions from 1985

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The Letter Writing Technique, Linda Mae Axelrod

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The Realities of Being a Part-time ESL Teacher, Rebecca Jean Banken

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Teacher’s Manual SRA Based Listening Course, (KC) Kathleen Ann Cassidy Barnes

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Guidelines for Prospective ESL Teachers in Saudi Arabia, Constance Boerner Joy

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Teaching the Modal Auxiliary Verbs Focusing on Those Used for Suggestion and Advice, Deborah Dewing Dewing

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Symbols of America Standard-Bearer of a New World Order An Autobiographical Interpretation of U.S. Culture and Civilization in the Twentieth Century, Andrew J. DiMauro

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Conjoined Sentences and Relative Clauses: Error Analysis and Lesson Plans for Correction, Kim Mary Fine

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Teaching Writing Through the Principles of Dialogue: Key Issues and an Approach to Composition, Dennis Huffman

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Teaching ESL in an American Public School: A Case Study, Kimberley A. Keller

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Ten Crossword Puzzles for the ESL Classroom, Sheri Kramer Georgiadis

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Developing and Using Foreign Language Materials: A Case Study for Polish, Tadeusz Krol

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Learning Patterns: Inborn or Acquired Stubbborness? or To Hell and Back, June Levinsohn

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A Teacher Training Plan for Refugees as ESL Teachers, Estela Libas-Novell

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Teaching Reading with Worlds in Color In a Home Schooling Environment, Grace Indoccio Matty

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The Psychological Issues Involved With Teaching ESL to Incarcerated Hispanic Males in an American Prison System, Sharon Morrison

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An Advanced Study and Discussion Guide to Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse- Five, with Exercises in Grammar, Vocabulary Development, Idiomatic Expressions, and Creative Thinking., Kevin James O’Brien

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Mini-Course in Demystifying American Spelling: An Historical And Comparative Perspective, Ingrid Prouty

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ESL Training Guide for Prospective Refugee Teachers, Gail Virginia Reynolds