Index

• ESL News & Student Community
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• IEP Program Information
• Student Handbook Fall 2012
• Attendance Policies
• Religious Accomodations
• Testing & Placement
• Course Structure
• Proficiency Scale
• Grading Policy
• Problems & Complaints
• Promotioinal Videos
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• Payment Information
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• Payment Information
  
  
  
  
  You may use the method of payment you prefer:
  
  • Electronic wire transfer
  • Mailed payment by check
  • Payment in person; at the Cashier in Mitchell 285
  • Payment by credit card or electronic check on your PAWS account. The VISA credit card is not accepted. There is a convenience fee of 2.5% for credit card payments. There is no fee for electronic check payments.
  
  Tuition costs are calculated according to the period of study:
  
  • Four month semesters run from August to December; from January to May; and from March to July.
  • Two month sessions run from August to October; from October to December; from January to March; from March to May; and from June to July.
  
  The application fee is a one-time payment, due at registration. It is not refundable.
  
  The tuition deposit is due at registration.
  
  Full tuition payment is due by the first day of class. A late payment fee is added to payments that are past due.
  
  The university fee payment is required for each semester or summer session the student is enrolled. The university fee covers access to the Health Center, the Sports Center, and the Milwaukee County Transit System bus pass for university students, UPASS.
  
  The IEP activity fee covers cultural enrichment programs, such as visits to museums or sports events. The student may pay the full fee at the beginning of the session or make a minimum payment and pay for each activity when scheduled.
  
  A late payment fee is assessed for any IEP payment that is made one week after the due date. UWM also assesses a charge of 1% per month for all late payments.
  
  
• Financial Obligation
  
  
  
  • By enrolling in IEP classes, you are making a financial commitment to UWM for the entire enrollment period.
  • Your online PAWS account shows your UWM financial record.
  • You are responsible for payment of all charges on your PAWS account even if you have a sponsor.
  

• Grading Policy
  
  
  
  Marks in the Listening, Reading and Writing courses are as follows:
  
  • No grade (NG) for satisfactory class participation and regular attendance.
  • Pass (P) indicated that student has achieved sufficient proficiency, as measured by the monthly placement test, to move to the next course.
  • Insufficient work (IW) indicates less than satisfactory participation and attendance.
  
  For each week of study in the Elective class you will receive a mark of Pass (P) or Fail (F).
  
  In the Immersion course you will receive a letter grade for each month, based on your portfolio of work and class participation.
  
  Letter Grade
  
  A = 90-100%
  B = 80-89%
  C = 70-79%
  D = 60-69%
  F = 0-59%
  
  
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• Program Course Structure
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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• Do you have a complaint or a problem with someone on campus?

  
  - Try to talk to the person concerned.
  - You can also speak to any IEP teacher or a staff member about any concern or problem.
  

• Are you unhappy with your test score or course placement?

  
  1. Talk to the academic coordinator (Rita).
  
  She will review all information to determine what action to take.
  Be sure to talk to her immediately if there was a problem during the test.
  
  2. If you are not satisfied after the meeting with the academic coordinator, discuss the matter with the director.
  
      - The director will review your record and attempt to resolve the matter.
      - The director's decision is final.
  
  Deadline: There are no changes to course placement after day 2 (Tuesday) of the new month session.
  
  Retesting:
  - Was there a problem with the test (poor testing conditions)?
  - Is the result of your test inconsistent with previous results?
  - If so, speak to the academic coordinator immediately.
  - Normally, you must complete one month of study in the assigned course before retesting.
  
  

• Are you unhappy with a grade or mark in one of your classes?

  
  
  1. First speak to the instructor of the class.
  
  2. Then meet with the academic coordinator if you are not satisfied after the meeting with the instructor. The academic coordinator will meet with you and the instructor and try to reach a resolution.
  
  3. Make a written complaint to the director if you are not satisfied after the meeting with the academic director.
  
  The written complaint should include:
  • Name and time of the class and name of the instructor.
  • The date the grade was received and type of work: quiz, exam, essay, etc.
  • Why you believe the grade or mark is wrong.
  
  The director will review the information, meet with you and the teacher and try to resolve the problem.
  
  The director will issue a final written decision within five working days and give you and the teacher a copy of the decision.
  

• Do you have a complaint about another student or about a teacher or staff member?

  
  Try to talk to the person concerned.
  
  Then speak to the IEP teacher or staff member you choose, and the person will try to help you resolve the concern.
  
  The staff member may discuss with you other resources available on campus.
  
  UWM offices that handle specific types of complaints:
  
  Office of Student Life (OSL)
  Complaints concerning unfair treatment (not related to your classes) or a violation of UWM policy.
  Mellencamp Hall #118 ; Tel. 229-4632.
  
  Offices of Equity/Diversity Services
  Complaints concerning unfair treatment based on discrimination.
  Mitchell Hall # 359; Tel. 229-5923.
  

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• Religious Accommodations
  
  (for complete institutional policy statement visit link below)
  http://www4.uwm.edu/secu/acad+admin_policies/S1.5.htm
  
  UWM provides reasonable accommodation for student's sincerely held religious beliefs with respect to all examinations and other academic requirements. Please inform the teacher in advance of the specific times or days when you will require religious accommodation. You are responsible for completing any work that you missed.
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• Attendance Policies
  
  A full-time student is allowed 12 absences during one month of study.
  
  Each teacher takes attendance at the beginning of every class. You will be marked absent if you are late by more than 5 minutes.
  
  A student who misses class regularly will receive warnings:
  • First warning: If you have 10 or more absences during a one month period, you will be notified in writing.
  • Second warning: If you continue to miss class, you will be required to meet with academic coordinator.
  • Final warning: If there is no improvement in your attendance you may be expelled from the program.
  
  A student on an F-1 visa who misses classes regularly may lose F-1 status and be required to depart from the U.S.
  
  Medical absences. Please stay at home if you are sick. If you miss three days or more of class, please contact the office, and when you are better, bring a doctor's statement to the office. The director and assistant director will review any case of serious illness.
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• Testing & Placement
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Focal Skills placement testing:
  • At the beginning of the program
  • At the end of each month of study (except Immersion) Your placement is according to your scores on the placement tests. 70% is passing.
  • Testing is online, in the computer lab.
  • No pencils, pen, paper, cell phones, dictionaries (electronic or paper) or other items are allowed at the computer.
  • One or more proctors will be present and will give instructions to log-in to the test site.
  • There is a practice test for each test.
  • You may spend as long as you want on each test item, but you may not go back to a previous item once you have submitted your answer.
  
  Listening test: Listen to a short recording and a question. There are 45 questions.
  Reading test: Read a paragraph and answer the question. There are 45 questions.
  Writing test: Read a short paragraph and fill in the blanks with the missing word. There are 12 paragraphs and 120 blanks.
  
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• ESL Student Handbook
  
  Open publication - Free publishing - More handbook
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• ESL Student Handbook
  
  
  Open publication - Free publishing - More handbook
• Attendance Policies
  
  A full-time student is allowed 12 absences during one month of study.
  
  Each teacher takes attendance at the beginning of every class. You will be marked absent if you are late by more than 5 minutes.
  
  A student who misses class regularly will receive warnings:
  • First warning: If you have 10 or more absences during a one month period, you will be notified in writing.
  • Second warning: If you continue to miss class, you will be required to meet with academic coordinator.
  • Final warning: If there is no improvement in your attendance you may be expelled from the program.
  
  A student on an F-1 visa who misses classes regularly may lose F-1 status and be required to depart from the U.S.
  
  Medical absences. Please stay at home if you are sick. If you miss three days or more of class, please contact the office, and when you are better, bring a doctor's statement to the office. The director and assistant director will review any case of serious illness.
• Religious Accommodations
  
  (for complete institutional policy statement visit link below)
  http://www4.uwm.edu/secu/acad+admin_policies/S1.5.htm
  
  UWM provides reasonable accommodation for student's sincerely held religious beliefs with respect to all examinations and other academic requirements. Please inform the teacher in advance of the specific times or days when you will require religious accommodation. You are responsible for completing any work that you missed.
• Testing & Placement
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Focal Skills placement testing:
  • At the beginning of the program
  • At the end of each month of study (except Immersion) Your placement is according to your scores on the placement tests. 70% is passing.
  • Testing is online, in the computer lab.
  • No pencils, pen, paper, cell phones, dictionaries (electronic or paper) or other items are allowed at the computer.
  • One or more proctors will be present and will give instructions to log-in to the test site.
  • There is a practice test for each test.
  • You may spend as long as you want on each test item, but you may not go back to a previous item once you have submitted your answer.
  
  Listening test: Listen to a short recording and a question. There are 45 questions.
  Reading test: Read a paragraph and answer the question. There are 45 questions.
  Writing test: Read a short paragraph and fill in the blanks with the missing word. There are 12 paragraphs and 120 blanks.
  

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• Every Day Life at UWM
  
  Glogster created by ESL Immersion students
  Instructor: Rosemarie
  Date: Spring 2010
  
• Cultural Perspectives
  
  Glogster created by ESL Immersion students
  Instructor: Rosemarie
  Date: Spring 2010
  
• ESL Stories
  
  Written by and starring ESL Student at UWM!
  Date: Fall 2009
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• Janet Wilgus
  Director
  M.S., Curriculum & Instruction
  
  Janet traces her interest in ESL to her service in the Peace Corps in Niger where she tutored a local government official in a rural village while working as a public health educator. Subsequently, she taught ESL grammar and writing at the University of Oran in Algeria. For many years Janet served overseas, primarily in Africa, as a Foreign Service officer with the U.S. Department of State. While in Morocco, Algeria and Sudan, Janet was responsible for intensive English programs that offered evening classes for adult learners of English. Later, as head of the Office of English Language Programs Office in Washington, D.C., Janet promoted English language programs worldwide, including teacher training programs.
  
  Interests: Providing the best possible language instruction to help all ESL students reach their goals.
• Kevin Beisser
  Assistant Director for Student Services
  B.A. Intercultural Communication
  
  Experience: Kevin has worked at UWM in the IEP for over 10 years. His second language is Spanish and he has traveled extensively throughout Latin America including living for short periods of time in both Venezuela and Colombia. He has also traveled to Korea.
  Interests: International education organizations; spending time with his wife and two sons as well as being a sports enthusiast.
  
  
• Christina Carroll
  University Services Associate
  B.A. International Relations
  
  Interests: Traveling (23 countries, including Russia and China, and 42 of the 50 states), reading, foreign languages, international history and politics, gardening and serving on various boards of Slovenian ethnic organizations in the Milwaukee community.
  
  

• Nancy Barbieri
  Senior Lecturer
  M.A., English Language & Linguistics
  
  Nancy has taught various levels of college composition as well as English language classes. She has worked in teacher training abroad and has taught ESL in both business and academic settings. Nancy served as Director of ESL Programs from 2004 to June 2007.
  
  Interests: Bicycling, gardening, attending the theater, and traveling to new, as well as old, places.
• Valerie Chamberlain
  Senior Lecturer
  M.S., ESL/Foreign Language Education
  
  Valerie has taught ESL at UWM since 1993 and previously taught EFL in Tokyo, Japan and French in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
  
  Interests: Helping ESL students get involved in community activities, such as volunteering for Milwaukee's famous summertime festivals. As a friend of the earth, Valerie is an avid bicyclist who bikes for both transportation and pleasure. She also enjoys swimming, reading, gardening and going to musical and theatrical performances.
  
  
• Rosemarie Feiza-Lenz
  Senior Lecturer
  M.A., English As A Second Language
  
  Rosemarie has lived, studied and worked overseas for a total of five years, with extended stays in Austria and Indonesia.
  
  Interests: Creating high-interest, meaningful and engaging student activities, finding ways to nurture confident writers, integrating technology into learning, nature outings, cross-country skiing, foreign languages, art projects, Special Olympics and Brewers baseball.
  
  
• Pat Goldstein
  Senior Lecturer
  M.A., English Language & Linguistics
  
  Pat has been enjoying teaching English as a Second Language at UWM for many years. She frequently coordinates groups of students from Europe and Asia who come to study English at UWM. She enjoys teaching at all levels in the program and thinks meeting students from all the countries in the world is exciting.
  
  Interests: Besides teaching English, Pat enjoys traveling, politics, soccer, theater, and all kinds of music. She still goes to rock concerts!
• Kendra Heidkamp-Young
  Associate Lecturer
  M.A., Reading
  
  
  
  
• Catherine Kaye
  Senior Lecturer
  M.A., Linguistics/TESOL
  
  Cathy has been enjoying teaching English as a Second Language for many years. She has a special interest in teaching writing, but she also enjoys teaching all skill areas and levels for English as a Second Language. Cathy coordinates the ESL Writing Courses for credit. Cathy's second language is Spanish and she has lived and studied in Spain and Mexico.
  
  Interests: Singing, reading, writing, exercising, watching movies, listening to music, hiking in the woods and relaxing with friends and family.
• Carol Lord
  Senior Lecturer
  M.A., English Language & Linguistics
  
  
  
  
• Katherine Riebe
  Lecturer
  M.A., Teaching English As A Foreign Language/Intercultural Studies
  
  In addition to three post-secondary institutions in Milwaukee, Katherine has also taught English in Kuwait, Texas and for a short time in Bandung, Indonesia.
  
  Interests: Being bicultural and a third culture kid, she enjoys meeting people from different cultures and learning about their experiences. Katherine can speak Yoruba and Nigerian Pidgin English and is currently trying to learn German. She likes to read, travel, listen to music, enjoy nature and hang out with family and friends.
• Jennifer Mattson
  Senior Lecturer
  M.A., English Language & Linquistics
  
  Jennifer has taught many Linguistics and Sociolinguistics courses to UWM students, as well as all levels of English as a Second Language courses to international students. She coordinates the Conversation Partner program, which matches ESL students with Americans to practice conversation.
  
  Interests: Singing, kissing her grandson, reading, power-walking, biking, reading, writing, camping and socializing. She rides on the back of her husband's motorcycle even though she is afraid.
• Rita Rutkowski Weber
  Senior Lecturer
  M.A.T., English As A Second Language/Spanish
  
  Rita has been in the field of teaching and learning languages for many years. After receiving her M.A.T., with a sense of enthusiasm and adventure, she then began a period of many years living and teaching abroad in Spain, Colombia, Mexico, Malaysia and China. Over the years, she has worked both as a teacher and administrator in the ESL program at UWM, teaching students and training ESL teachers, developing intensive program curricula, and doing cross-cultural training. She has served as president of the state professional ESL teacher's organization and has been a presenter several times at state, regional and national professional conferences. She jointly edited Second Language Acquisition Theory and Pedagogy.
  
  Interests: Outside of the classroom, she can most often be found working in her garden, watching some sporting event with her family, or training with her dog, Wally.
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• Mark Sondrol
  Senior Lecturer
  M.A., English Language & Linguistics
  
  Mark lived abroad for a number of years in England, France and Germany, and was a visiting professor at a major Korean university.
  
  Interests: Reading, traveling, cooking, doing things with his family—and of course teaching ESL, which he has been doing for many years.
• Amy Shields
  Senior Lecturer
  M.S./M.A., English As A Second Language/Linguistics
  
  Amy has been teaching at UWM since 1999. Before settling at UWM, she taught at Marquette University, UW-Parkside, and Pohang University of Science and Technology in Pohang, South Korea. She has taught a variety of courses through the years. She started out teaching mainly in the Intensive English Program but quickly expanded to also teaching in the English department. There, she has taught various levels of general composition for ESL and native speakers. She also has taught Business Writing for business majors. She is an active member of ESL and Business Communication organizations. She was secretary of WITESOL (an ESL teachers' organization) for three years. Amy presented as a panel member at the Association of Business Communication 2009 annual conference.
• Peter Lee
  Senior Lecturer Emeritus
  M.S./M.A., English As A Second Language/Linguistics
  
  Peter Lee retired as a Senior Lecturer in the Intensive English Program in 2005. During his 27 years working in the program he served as Senior Lecturer and Director (1989-92) and Assistant to the Director (1998-2005). Besides teaching, his interests were in the development of the Focal Skills Approach, particularly placement testing. He was a member of both the state and international ESL teacher organizations and gave presentations at their conferences, often on computer-related topics. Peter began his career in English as a Second Language in the Peace Corps in Thailand in 1965. He later taught in Taiwan (1968-70) and northeast China (1980-82).
  
  Interests: Traveling, making music, and riding his recumbent bike as much as possible.
• James Mayhew
  Senior Lecturer Emeritus
  M.A., Teaching English As A Second Language
  Ph.D., International Postsecondary Education
  
  Jim enjoyed teaching English as a Second Language at UWM for seventeen years beginning in 1990. He taught in the Intensive English Program, the credit-writing program, and the program for international teaching assistants until his retirement in 2007. In addition, he published a monthly newspaper focusing on current topics in science and technology for ESL and EFL students for three years. He participated actively in both the state and international professional organizations for ESL teachers, including frequent presentations with colleagues at professional conferences.
  In addition to living and working in several states, including Missouri, Florida, Texas, Wisconsin, Vermont, and Colorado, he has lived and worked for short periods of time in Peru, Portugal, Slovakia, and Japan. After retirement from UWM, he continued to study language through two years of university-level coursework in Spanish in Madison. As a research focus, he continues to be fascinated by the complex interactions of educational institutions with processes of social change in an international context.
  
  Interests: Outside the classroom, Jim enjoys continuing to study science, reading, writing captions for cartoons, and helping to raise his two granddaughters.