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Dear ALIS Community,
We sincerely hope this message finds you and your loved ones
well, and that you were able to recharge during the summer.
The ALIS co-chairs would like to invite you to participate in
several upcoming online events happening this Fall 2020 and Spring 2021.
First, it is with great pleasure that we announce that the
panelists who were going to participate in our academic session at the
TESOL 2020 Convention in Denver have agreed to hold webinars instead,
making a total of four webinars for the Applied Linguistics Interest
Section (ALIS) webinar series.
The original theme for the TESOL 2020 ALIS academic session was
“Multifaceted Teacher Identities: Perspectives on Language, Race, and
Professional Positioning,” and this will continue to be the theme for
our webinars.
On 24 July, we had the pleasure of offering our first webinar
in the series, featuring Dr. Quanisha Charles. She shared with us her
experiences and research in a presentation titled “Black Teachers of
English in South Korea: Constructing Identities as a Black Native
English Speaker and English Language Teaching Professional.” If you
missed this
webinar, you will be able to find a recording on TESOL’s
Youtube Channel.
The upcoming three webinars are:
We are also planning a series of “ALIS Q&A with
Experts” to which we will invite authors who have recently published in TESOL Quarterly. During these sessions, the
audience will have the opportunity to ask questions about the articles
or about the authors’ work and research in general.
So, stay tuned for updates on our upcoming webinars and “ALIS
Q&A with Experts” sessions, which will be posted on the myTESOL
ALIS page and on our Facebook
page.
Finally, we are excited to report that Anna Dina Joaquin
(California State University, Northridge) is our chair-elect. She has
been very involved in ALIS’s activities this year and is already
planning an academic session for the 2021 TESOL Convention. We are very
happy to be working with her.
Looking forward to seeing you in one of our events this year!
All the best,
Bahiyyih, Polina, and Anna | 
