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Dr. Latricia Trites
Associate Professor of English
 
Joined MSU in 2000
 
Education
 
PhD, Northern Arizona University
MA, Texas Tech University
BA, Texas Tech University
 
 
Areas of Interest
 
Reading Comprehension; Language Assessment; Writing; Strategy Instrucion; Grammar
 
 
Recent Works
 

Publications:

"Teacher Involvement: The Critical Element to Effective Online Teaching." Learning Languages Through Technologies. Alexandria, VA: TESOL, 2006.

Trites, L. (2001) "Journals as a Self-Evaluative, Reflective Classroom Tool: A Case Study of Advanced ESL Graduate Students" In J. Burton and M. Carrell Eds., Journal Writing in ESL

Reviews:

1999. Varieties of English by Susan M. Gass and Natalie Lefkowitz. TESOL Journal, 8 (1) p. 42.

2001. A handbook of content literacy strategies: 75 practical reading and writing ideas by E. Stephens and J. Brown. TESOL Journal, 10 (2/3) p. 44-45.

Presentations:

Quirke, P., Burton, J., Mlynarczyk, R., Lipp, E., Dalogou, A., & Trites, L. (March, 2004). Journaling around the World. Colloquium presented at annual conference of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages 2004, Long Beach, CA.

Trites, L. (July 2003 & September 2003). Teaching ESL Students. Four-hour workshop presented to teachers at the Teacher Quality Institute and at Graves County School District.

Sroda, S., & Trites, L. (February, 2002). Non-native Speakers (and Writers) in the University Classroom. Workshop presented at Professional Communications Initiative Workshop, Murray State University, Murray, KY.

Trites, L., & Onel, Z. (April, 2002). Integrating higher-level reading skills in the writing classroom. Paper presented at annual conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Salt Lake City, UT.

Sroda, S., Stone, S., & Trites, L. (May, 2002). Service Learning: From Abstraction to Implementation. Council for Post Secondary Education Innovations in Teaching & Learning: Meeting 21st Century Challenges Conference, Louisville, KY.

Sroda, S., & Trites, L. (September, 2002). Service Learning in Pre-Service TESOL Programs: Procedures and Pitfalls. Paper presented at the South East Regional TESOL Conference, Atlanta, GA

Trites, L. & Garcia, P. (February, 2001). Notetaking for Complex Reading Comprehension Tasks. Paper presented at annual conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL), St. Louis, MO.

 
 
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