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RegionState Sunday, September 15, 2002 A-3 IUP student back to Qatar on Fulbright -r- 1 ROAD WORK There might be some traffic delays on Rte. 422 west of Indiana. Road crews are using heavy equipment to cut through the hillside on the north side to widen the road. The work here is being done at the intersection with Cunningham Road. (Gazette photo by PeelJ uhlMililijjM Mnister's remark angers gay members IPRESEHT and likely discover even more significance to her research.

"Amain concern of mine is to go beyond just a few regions in the country," Lanteigne said. "It is by gathering information about many regions that we can increase the scope of the study." The scope has already expanded from educational test and materials development to concerns in cross-cultural communications. Professionals wirh experience in international relations may well be interested in the results, realizing that the Gnalized consensus of opinion will amount to a rudimentary study of how various English-speaking cultures differ in their communication styles in English. The need for such understanding has been growing more obvious as more and more concents become matters of global communication. In addition, die study will have implications for special education.

Much of the special education teaching and testing materials used in many developing nations in this held are based on North American or British culture, Lanteigne has a wealth of experience both teaching and performing research. Wiiile working, she, often observed a rift between the two and is now driven by a desire to make connections between theory and practice. "I want to make research something that is usable fur everyday she said "We need theory to be practical for the classroom teacher. Neither practice nor theory can be truly successful without one another." Lanteigne began her experiences in theory and practice with a case study of a Mexican immigrant's progress in English and family reading thai was published in the "Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy." She also performed applied linguistics research into common, persistent pronunciation errors of Brazilians while teaching English In Oregon with the Schuul of English. After teaching at Hebron University, a Palestinian university in the city of Hebron, from 1998 through 1999, she was awarded an English Teaching Fellowship to Qatar in 1999-2000.

Her recent IUP project included a shtdy into the variations in sentence structure between formal and informal speech and a nine-week Arabic immersion course during summer 2002 at Middlebury College in Vermont. Lanteigne plans to stay in Qatar a year in order to complete her qualitative research, following a variation of the Delphi technique. "I already have experience there, and it's an ideal location," she explained. "There is a wealth of schools for children of various backgrounds whose parents arc foreign workers, providing easy access to a number of English-speaking teachers." After earning her PhD at IUR she plans to continue her work by combining the teaching of English internationally with research, test development and materials development in international IUP News Service Indiana University of Pennsylvania graduate student Betty liinteigne has already spent one year in Qatar, with an English Teaching Fellowship tlirough the Department of State. Thanks to the Fulbright Scholarship she was awarded in August 2002, as well as an IUP fellowship and David I Boren Graduate Fellowship, she'll again visit the country in August of 2003 through August of 2004 to begin research into how English is used outside of western cultures.

Lanteigne is a graduate of IlJPs Robert E. Cook Honors College. "Think of this as the first step in developing teaching and testing materials for nnn western regions and increasing cross-cultural awareness centered around the way the Language is really used in a particular region," said Lanteigne, who proposed the research as part of the dissertation that will culminate in a PhD in Rhetoric and Linguistics from She is originally from Desoto, MO. "My specific goal is to develop a database of task descriptions, less influenced by western cultures than what is now available, that can be applied to develop culturally appropriate English language instructional materials and assessment instruments." In her study, task descriptions are simply the ways that English-teaching professionals describe Bnglish-speakiug activities of daily life in their respective countries. By gathering information about how descriptions that involve the use of the English language differ.

Lanteigne will complete groundwork that will enable new advances in English education for nonwestern English speakers. The great need for region-specific tasting and education materials became clearer to Lanteigne as she began looking into the topic. But the idea first came to her while she was performing placement testing for English classes in Qatar as part of her English Teaching Fellowsliip. "One of the- questions I asked the students was 'Where is a good place to go for I received blank responses, 1 later realized, because no one goes out for lunch at that time: at noon, in the desert and in the middle of summer." explained Lanteigne. "It occurred to me that because I said 'eat' instead of the question was irrelevant and culturally ina pp ro priate." "I "he first step of Lanteignc's research will involve brainstorm sessions with professional English teachers to gather responses about how English is used in specific regions.

Next, she'll analyze their re-spouses and categorize them by skills, including reading, writing, speaking, and listening and by context, including work, community, and school. Later reaching a consensus among the participating English-leaching professionals by reiterating their responses and her categorization of them, Lanteigne will finalize her results same-sex marriages?" Griffin asked in reply. About a dozen gays and lesbians said i he comment prompted them to walk out ofWednesday's service at First Presbyterian Church of Be till e-hem, about 50 miles north of Pluladelphia. An official with the Greater Bethlehem Area Council of Churches said Friday that the governing board will discuss the comments. William duller, president of the council's board, wouldn't say whether or not the body would denounce the remark.

BETHLEHEM CAP) Cay members of a Lehigh Valley church want an apology after a Baptist minister's comments linked last year's terrorist attacks to same-sex marriages and school shootings. The Rev. Marshall Griffin of Sl Paul's Baptist Church of Bethlehem has said his comments at the Sept. 1 1 ecumenical service were in response to questions about why God failed to intervene during the terrorist attacks one year earlier. "Where were you when God needed you, when prayer was taken out of schools and we started allowing Wurrrn 111).

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