Newsletter Volume 1, Number 1, Spring 1999 WVTESOL Spring Conference The Executive Board of WVTESOL is now planning the WVTESOL Spring Conference to be hosted by Salem-Teikyo University in Salem, West Virginia, USA on Saturday, April 17, 1999. The theme for the conference is "WVTESOL: Setting an Agenda for Action (ESOL Issues in Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Education)" The keynote speaker for the conference is Charles Amorosino, Jr., Exectutive Director of TESOL. A number of the sessions will address the needs and concerns of elementary and secondary (K-12) teachers of English as a Second Language and Limited English Proficiency students. Other sessions will be relevant to teachers, students and administrators in Higher Education, and Adult Education and Literacy. For more information about the Conference, visit our unofficial Web page: <https://members.tripod.com/~WVESL/ce/WVTESOL.html>. One-Year of FREE WVTESOL Membership! Design a WVTESOL logo and you could win free membership in WVTESOL for the coming year! See details. In this issue: "Appalachians Abroad" Provides Teachers to China, by Clark Egnor Lights. . . Camera. . . Action--Salem-Teikyo Gets Filmed by the Chinese, by Diane Honeman Newcomers Study ESL through Literacy Volunteers, by Annita Ward Intensive English Program at West Virginia University Provides a Wide Variety of Options, by Helen Huntley From the Editor--On Purple Dittoes, Purple Prose, and the Poetry of Teaching ESL, by Linda Yoder Recent and Readable--Book Reviews   External links (Some of the links below will take you outside the WVTESOL Newsletter. Use the "Back" button, or the "Go" Menu on your browser to return to this page.) About WVTESOL <https://members.tripod.com/~WVESL/ WVTESOL/WVTESOL.htm> WVTESOL Constitution <https://members.tripod.com/~WVESL/ ce/index8-2.html>   Membership Application <https://members.tripod.com/~WVESL/ ce/member.html> WVTESOL Officers <https://members.tripod.com/~WVESL/ WVTESOL/officer.htm> WVTESOL Newsletter Editor: Linda Yoder Salem-Teikyo University lky@wvu.edu Copyright 1999 by WVTESOL Permission is granted to freely copy the most up-to-date version of this document, unmodified from https://members.tripod.com/~WVESL/WVTESOL/index.htm in electronic form or in print for personal use only. On the WWW, however, you must link to the above URL rather than putting this up as your own page. This page was last updated on 28 March 1999.