Wayne E. Wright, Ph.D.

Presentations

Handouts from Recent Conference Presentations

      Voices from the Classroom: A Statewide Survey of Experience Third-Grade English Language Learner Teachers on the Impact of Language and High-Stakes Testing Policies in Arizona. Linguistic Minority Research Institute, May 5-6, 2006, Irvine, CA

o       PowerPoint Slides

o       Executive Summary

o       Full Paper

      NCLB Testing Requirements and Newcomer Southeast Asian Students: High Expectations or Unreasonable Mandate? 2006 National Conference, National Association for Asian and Pacific American Education & National Association for the Education and Advancement of Cambodian, Laotian, and Vietnamese Americans. April 28-29, 2006, Washington DC

o       PowerPoint Slides

      Are ELLs “Soaring Academically” in Arizona? An Analysis of State Elementary Achievement and Accountability Data. American Education Research Association. April 7-11, 2006. San Francisco, CA

o      PowerPoint Slides
 

      Khmer Heritage Language Learning in the United States. National Association for Bilingual Education. January 18-21, 2006. Phoenix, AZ

         o  PowerPoint Slides
 

      Wright, W. E., & Li, X. (in-press). Catching up in Math? The Case of Newly-Arrived Cambodian Students in a Texas Intermediate School. TABE Journal.

o  PowerPoint Slides

Other Presentations

v Life after Unz: How Effective is English-only education in the age of NCLB and Accountability? (Featured Speaker, with Dr. Terrence G. Wiley). California Association for Bilingual Education, March 1-4, 2006. San Jose, CA

v Are ELLs “Soaring Academically” in Arizona? An Analysis of State Elementary Achievement and Accountability Data. (With Chang Pu). National Association for Bilingual Education, January 18-21, 2006. Phoenix, AZ.

v Leaving ELLs Behind in Arizona: New Evidence of the Failure of English-only Instruction and High-Stakes Testing to Improve Education. Faculty Research Forum, Division of Bicultural-Bilingual Studies, UTSA, December 6, 2005

v Leaving ELLs Behind in Arizona: An Analysis of State Policy and Practice. American Education Research Association, April 13, 2005, Montreal, Canada

v Catering to Schools or the Needs of Children? Misappropriations of Accommodations in the NCLB era (with Terrence G. Wiley). American Education Research Association, April 15, 2005, Montreal, Canada.

v English Language Learners, Proposition 203, and Testing in Arizona (Poster). Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, March 31, 2005, San Antonio, TX

v Challenges and Prospects for Promoting Cambodian (Khmer) in the USA. 5th International Symposium on Bilingualism, March 22, 2005, Barcelona, Spain.

v Beyond the AZ Learns Labels & Statewide Survey of AZ 3^rd grade ELL Teachers (with Chang Pu and Daniel Choi), Arizona Language Minority Rights Roundtable, January 29, 2005, Tempe, AZ

v The Intersection of Language and Assessment Policies for English Language Learners in Arizona. National Association for Bilingual Education, January 21, 2005, San Antonio, TX

v The Political Spectacle of Arizona’s Proposition 203. National Association for Bilingual Education, January 20, 2005, San Antonio, TX

Guest Lectures

v Royal University of Phnom Penh, June 2005.

o Applied Linguistics and the Education of Language Minority Students in the U.S.

o The Importance of Reading in Second Language Acquisition – Research and Strategies

v Norton University (Phnom Penh, Cambodia), June 2005

o Strategies for Increasing Interaction in the EFL Classroom

v Pannasatra University of Cambodia, June - July 2005

o American Corner – Resources to Support EFL Literacy Development and Instruction

o Debates over Grammar and Vocabulary Instruction in the U.S. – Implications for Cambodia

o Cooperative Learning Structures

o Strategies for Interaction in the EFL Classroom

v New World Institute (Phnom Penh, Cambodia) – July 2005

o Classroom Management and Interactive Strategies for the EFL Classroom