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Dear Readers,
Welcome to the fall issue of AL Forum, newsletter for the Applied Linguistics Interest Section! First of all, we hope you are doing well in your teaching and learning communities. This issue brings you leadership updates summarizing past, ongoing, and future ALIS activities and three thought-provoking articles representing diverse areas of applied linguistics and its applications to the classroom.
The first article, by Lily Lewis, reports on her study of tense and aspect use by successful student writers, encouraging educators to carefully consider which tense-aspect combinations to address depending on the academic discipline. In the second article, Yuanyibo Zhang and Vicki Ross report on their narrative case study of non-native English-speaking teachers’ professional stories; their insights invite all our readers to reflect on our complex journeys to develop our professional identity. Finally, Max Chamberlain provides a book review of Online Language Learning: Tips for Teachers, outlining the book’s pedagogical recommendations for effective and responsible use of the Internet in today’s hybrid learning context. Through attention to research and practice, all three articles offer ideas for a reflective pedagogical practice.
In leadership updates, ALIS chair Sun-Young Shin and chair-elect Rashad Ahmed share exciting news about ongoing and upcoming ALIS events. The ALIS leaders also announce an upcoming webinar series with the authors of most popular TESOL Quarterly articles and provide details on how ALIS will be be represented at TESOL 2023: check out their full letter for further details on the ALIS InterSession and Academic Session that you can look forward to when attending the conference.
We hope you enjoy this issue as you engage in your learning communities this fall!
Cheers,
Natalia, Heather, and Ben
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Natalia Dolgova is Teaching Assistant Professor in the English for Academic Purposes Program at the George Washington University; her research interests address various applications of usage-based linguistics to pedagogy.
Dr. Heather Weger is faculty of Legal English at Georgetown University Law Center where she designs and delivers curriculum for multilingual students pursuing a Masters of Law (LLM) degree.
Ben White directs the MATESOL program at St. Mike’s, holds a Ph.D. in Second Language Studies from Michigan State University, and has research interests in cognitive linguistics and sociocultural theory.
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