Natalia Dolgova, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA
Heather Weger, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC, USA

Dear Readers,

Welcome to AL Forum, newsletter for the Applied Linguistics Interest Section (ALIS)!

This issue contains four articles that will address multiple aspects of the broader applied linguistics field in relation to TESOL needs.

The issue opens with the review article by Eric Friginal, Peter Dye, and Matthew Nolen that introduces key concepts from corpus linguistics to TESOL practitioners and provides tested suggestions of methods that work. In the second article, Nicola Galloway and Heath Rose raise the issue of how global Englishes can be incorporated into instructional practices and teacher training programs, synthesizing a wide body of research on the topic. Next, Drew Fagan presents a conversation analytic take on teacher discourse in small-group student activities, demonstrating how important teacher talk is for students’ immediate and subsequent interactions. In the final article of the issue, Babak Khoshnevisan discusses the concept of idiomaticity as it was framed in related second language acquisition research and makes suggestions of how idiomaticity can be addressed in instructional settings.

In other content, the letter from our chair, Ben White, gives us an overview of ALIS 2019 activities, including the anticipated key sessions organized by ALIS for TESOL 2020 and TESOL Quarterly webinars. We hope we will be able to share additional details on these developments in our next newsletter issue and through direct communication from ALIS.

We hope you enjoy the issue and wish you a successful fall semester!

Best,

Natalia & Heather