ALIS Newsletter - March 2019 (Plain Text Version)

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In this issue:
LEADERSHIP UPDATES
•  LETTER FROM THE EDITORS
•  LETTER FROM THE CHAIR
ARTICLES
•  PEDAGOGICAL INQUIRY IN ENGLISH AS AN INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE: A SYNTHESIS
•  LEARNER ENGAGEMENT AND SUBJECTIVE RESPONSES TO TASKS IN AN EFL CONTEXT
•  PEER REVIEW IN L2 WRITING INSTRUCTION: NOTICING, METALANGUAGE, AND ACCURACY
•  BORROWING WORDS LEGALLY: EXPANDING OPTIONS FOR TEXTUAL BORROWING VIA CORPORA
ABOUT THIS COMMUNITY
•  APPLIED LINGUISTICS INTEREST SECTION (ALIS)

LETTER FROM THE CHAIR

Kathryn Howard, California State University, San Bernardino, California, USA

Greetings! We are looking forward to an exciting year as we approach the 2019 TESOL Convention in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. We are also hoping to identify nominees for the 2019 chair-elect position: Nominate yourself or a friend by contacting me at khoward@csusb.edu.

At the convention, please join us for three fascinating sessions organized by the ALIS leadership. We are proud to sponsor the ALIS academic session exploring both cognitive and sociocultural lenses on pedagogy in our field. We also have two collaborative InterSections to offer: First, an InterSection with the Second Language Writing Interest Section entitled, “Beyond 5-Paragraph Essays: Why Don’t Writing Textbooks Reflect Current Research?” on 13 March, 11:00 am–12:45 pm in A301 at the Georgia World Congress Center. The second InterSection was organized with the Refugee Concerns Interest Section and is entitled, “Discourses of Representation for Refugee-Background Learners: Empowerment and Collaboration.” This will take place on 13 March, 3 pm–4:45 pm in room A404 at the Georgia World Congress Center. Both sessions offer fascinating, interdisciplinary panels of scholars exploring critical issues that impact TESOL practice. We hope that you will join us for these sessions and for our business meeting this year!

For the 2019 Convention, TESOL has fully implemented its new strand structure for the first time. Under this structure, proposals were evaluated and scheduled by topic-based strands, rather than interest sections. As you explore the conference this year, please keep an eye out for your fellow ALIS scholars across a range of strands, including the Applied Linguistics Strand. We plan to roll out an ALIS twitter feed so that our members can stay apprised, in real-time, of presentations and events relevant to our members as they occur. Please use the hashtag #ALIS2019 to tweet about your conference experiences so we can connect as a community.

We will be holding elections for new officers this Spring, so we are looking for folks who are interested in stepping up to leadership roles in our interest section. This is a great opportunity to organize panels, network with colleagues across interest sections, and build your leadership skills. If you are interested in serving in a future role, please contact Kathy Howard.