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TESOL English Language Bulletin- Missouri's Columbia Public Schools' English language learners program continues to grow 9 May 2012
- TESOL releases white paper on language teaching policies and practices 9 May 2012
- TESOL offers ESL for the Secondary Mathematics Teacher 9 May 2012
- Study: Positive bias? Black, Latino students get less critical feedback from teachers 9 May 2012
- TESOL seeks book chapter proposals: Insights from other fields 9 May 2012
Category Archives: President
Online Discussion on Teacher Effectiveness in ELT, 19-20 January
Christine Coombe
Today and tomorrow (19-20 January) the TESOL Community is hosting an online discussion on empirical and practical perspectives on teacher effectiveness in ELT, which will also be the topic of my Presidential Plenary at the TESOL 2012 Annual Convention & … Continue reading
TESOL’s New Name
Christine Coombe
By now you’ve heard the good news: TESOL is now the TESOL International Association. As the president of TESOL’s Board of Directors, I can assure you that the decision to change the association’s name was not taken lightly. The Board … Continue reading
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Retire in TESOL Style!
Liz England
For this president’s blog, I’ve asked Liz England to write about retirement for TESOLers. —Christine Coombe TESOL 2011, New Orleans, was a fabulous convention for me. With some others, I had become somewhat frustrated for many years about TESOL’s … Continue reading
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A New Professional Journey
Christine Coombe
For the past two decades the Annual TESOL Convention has been part of my March calendar, but this year my attendance at the TESOL New Orleans Convention was special as it marked the achievement of a goal I’ve had for … Continue reading
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Congratulations to Our Newly Elected Leaders
Fellow TESOL Members, Please join me in congratulating our newly elected President-Elect, Board Members, and Nominating Committee Members. They are named below. I look forward to serving with them and I know they look forward to serving you. Don't hesitate … Continue reading
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A New Year’s Resolution We Can’t Not Make?
Who knew that this would happen? I started this blog entry Wednesday, January 5th. It was not the first time I had thought it, but that day I felt that I had to address how our public discourse has gotten … Continue reading
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As the World Gets Flatter…
The dateline here is Siem Reap, Cambodia, a provincial center about 5 miles from Angkor Wat. I’m just completing a week-long training program for Peace Corps Project Managers and Training Managers from 20 countries across Peace Corps’ EMA (Europe, Middle … Continue reading
Register for the 2011 TESOL Convention in New Orleans—I just did!
I’ve just paid my registration fee for the 2011 TESOL convention in New Orleans (yes, egalitarian as the TESOL membership is, even officers and board members have to pay. I like the tradition—it’s a matter of putting your money where … Continue reading
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MEXTESOL/Central America Caribbean TESOL Convention–Thinking “Glocally”
In March 2009 I was invited to attend the MEXTESOL/Central American Caribbean TESOL Convention in Cancun last week (November 4–7, 2010). It was worth the wait. The convention hall was very well designed and we never felt overcrowded, despite an … Continue reading
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“ə” Happens
Note: “ə” in various phonetic transcription systems represents the unstressed neutral vowel which has the sound of "a" in comma. “ə” (pronounced “schwa”) is probably the handiest sound in English. I’ve even been guilty of telling students, “when in doubt, all … Continue reading
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