Karen Macbeth

2018

Karen Macbeth proposes the creation of two digital textbooks for ESL courses. The first will adapt library’s original digital book, Choosing and Using Sources to match learner level and language proficiency, and the second will be an original text for the spoken English course.

2021

This grant award will be used to create a free textbook for a new course, which is designed to train Graduate Teaching Associates to teach writing in the ESL Composition Program. The unique nature of this course lends itself well to a custom text that organizes resources from a variety of authors. Macbeth will use Pressbooks as the hosting platform for content.

2022

For many international students, critical reading and writing in the academic context is very unfamiliar. The ESL Composition staff typically present workshops on these materials but find they are barely scratching the surface. Macbeth intends to use grant funds to curate a workbook in Pressbooks for college-level writers in the ESL program. By separating this skill from the syllabus, instead of treating as needed, students will be more successful in the course.

 

Cohort: 
2018, 2021, and 2022
Campus: 
Columbus
College / Department: 
College of Education and Human Ecology, Department of Teaching and Learning
Course(s) Impacted: 
EDUTL 1902 Academic Writing in English as a Second Language, EDUTL 5050 Classroom English for International Graduate Teaching Associates, EDUTL 6996 Language Arts and ESL Instruction at Ohio State, EDUTL 1901 Advanced English as a Second Language, EDUTL 5901 Advanced English as a Second Language
Savings: 
$57,503
Students Impacted: 
551