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2010 ITBE 36th Annual Convention:
"Changing Times, Changing Lives"
February 26th - 27th, 2010
Friday - Saturday
Holiday Inn Select
Naperville, Illinois
| | | | | Dr. Janet Zadina is a cognitive neuroscientist, reading specialist, and former high school and community college instructor. She received her doctorate in the College of Education at the University of New Orleans, conducting her award-winning dissertation research on the neuroanatomy of dyslexia through collaboration with Tulane University School of Medicine. She continued her postdoctoral education with a Fellowship in Cognitive Neuroscience in the Department of Psychiatry and Neurology at Tulane University School of Medicine where she researched neuroanatomical risk factors for developmental language disorders through MRI brain scans. She is currently engaged in neuroscience research as an Assistant Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience in the Department of Psychiatry and Neurology at Tulane and in Psychology at the University of South Florida. Dr. Zadina is author of Six Weeks to a Brain-Compatible Classroom – a workbook for educators, among other books. She is the founder of Brain Research and Instruction and has presented keynotes and workshops internationally on brain research and instruction. | Patsy Martin Lightbown is Distinguished Professor Emeritus (Applied Linguistics) at Concordia University in Montreal. The principal area of her research is second language acquisition in the classroom, particularly the complementary contributions of communicative and form-focused activities. Her research publications have appeared in TESOL Quarterly, Applied Linguistics, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Language Learning, the Modern Language Journal, and other professional journals and books. With Nina Spada, she co-authored How Languages are Learned (Oxford University Press), an introduction to second language acquisition research for teachers that is now in its third edition. Having lived and worked for more than twenty-five years in Canada, she now lives in Massachusetts, where she continues her research, consulting, and writing about language teaching and learning. She provides professional development workshops for new and experienced teachers as well as research-oriented courses for students in applied linguistics. | Plenary and Break-Out Session Abstracts | |
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