ALIS Newsletter - September 2012 (Plain Text Version)

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In this issue:
LEADERSHIP UPDATES
•  LETTER FROM THE EDITORS
•  FROM THE CHAIR
•  FROM THE PAST CHAIR
ARTICLES
•  EXAMINING INSTRUCTION ON WRITING FROM SOURCES AND AVOIDING PLAGIARISM
•  WHAT TEACHERS NEED TO KNOW ABOUT SPEECH ACT RESEARCH
•  THE USEFULNESS OF QUESTIONS IN CLASSROOM CONTEXT
•  POLITICS AND PRAGMATICS: MY SHIFT FROM RHETORIC AND COMPOSITION TO APPLIED LINGUISTICS
•  TEACHING AND ENCOURAGING MODALS: A STUDY OF ONE LEARNER'S USE OF SHOULD
ABOUT THE COMMUNITY
•  Applied Linguistics Interest Section

ABOUT THE COMMUNITY

Applied Linguistics Interest Section

Dear ALISers,

For the past few years, almost every ALIS business meeting has raised the issue of what we, as a professional group, stand for. Who are we? What do we do? What is our mission? We would like to call on our members to participate in the discussion of a possible statement of our mission and professional values. Please join this discussion in the community pages.

On a related note, this section of the newsletter is called About This Community. We would like to propose that we use this section to get better acquainted with each other’s research and teaching interests. We’d like our members to introduce themselves in a short paragraph and submit their statements and photos to Jana and Olga. In each subsequent newsletter we’ll publish these, a few at a time.

Looking forward to your input!