James E. Alatis Award for Service to TESOL
Dr. George Braine has more than 40 years experience in teaching English as a foreign/second language. He has taught students from a variety of language backgrounds in Sri Lanka, Oman, the USA, and Hong Kong.  

The Outstanding U.S. Advocate Honor
This honor is presented to an individual outside the TESOL field who has advocated for ELLs and the field of English language teaching, and is selected by the host affiliate for the convention. Texas State Representative Roberto Alonzo is being recognized for his leadership and support for advancing the field of ESL and bilingual education in Texas. 

TESOL Teacher of the Year
Anne Marie Foerster Luu is a National Board Certified ESOL teacher working in a public K-5 setting and serving as an adjunct in a MA-TESOL program. She received her master’s of education in TESOL from the University of Maryland-College Park and her master of arts in education leadership from West Virginia University. 

TESOL Award for Distinguished Research
Dr. Andreea Cervatiuc is an Instructor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Calgary, where she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses.  She holds a PhD in TESL and worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. She conducted research on second language learning, ESL curriculum, language assessment, and language policy.  

Award for Teacher as Classroom Action Researcher
Najma Janjua, PhD, is a professor at Kagawa Prefectural University of Health Sciences, Japan. She is recipient of Canadian FRSQ, Japanese Research Scientist, and JSPS Special Researcher Fellowships. Her research interests in TESOL include EMP, language transfer in Japanese ELLs, and comparative studies of EFL education in non-native English-speaking countries. 

D. Scott Enright Interest Section Service Award
Christel Broady directs a program for ESL teacher training, is a keynote speaker, PD provider, and award-winning writer of fiction and poetry telling immigrant stories. Her passion is as an advocate of building communities of practice among the TESOL, EEIS, the Kentucky TESOL affiliate, state, districts, administrators, teachers, immigrant children, and their families. 

TESOL Virginia French Allen Award for Scholarship and Service
Barbara Luther is Associate Faculty at Irvine Valley College and Santa Ana College School of Continuing Education.  She has been active in CATESOL at the chapter, regional, and state levels since 2002, having served as board member and conference chair, and is currently coordinator of the Part-Time Educators Interest Group.  

Mary Finocchiaro Award for Excellence in Nonpublished Pedagogical Material
Kirtland Eastwood has taught English in Osaka, Japan for 18 months and is currently working towards her MATESOL degree. She will teach English in the Czech Republic in March 2013 and hopes to continue involvement with various TESOL organizations as she teaches around the world.

Lauryn Gallo is an English as a second language consultant in the International Student Resource Center at Eastern Michigan University where she is completing her master’s degree in TESOL.

TESOL Award for an Outstanding Paper on NNEST Issues
Mary Shepard Wong is Professor and Director of TESOL at Azusa Pacific University in California and a recent senior Fulbright scholar (Hong Kong, 2012). She has taught TESOL for three decades in the U.S., China, Thailand, and Myanmar. Her research and publications focus on professional development, teacher religious identity, and NS/NNEST collaboration.

Xuesong Gao (Andy) is an Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong. His current research and teaching interests are in the areas of language learning narratives, language teacher education learner autonomy, reading, and sociolinguistics. He is current president for Hong Kong Association for Applied Linguistics. 

Ruth Crymes TESOL Fellowship for Graduate Study
Soo Hyon Kim is a PhD Candidate in Second Language Studies at Michigan State University. Her primary research interests lie at the intersection of SLA and L2 writing. She is also passionate about teaching, and has taught graduate level EAP classes as well as TESOL Methods for pre-service K-12 teachers. 

The TESOL Presidents’ Award
The TESOL Presidents’ Award is presented to the Fulbright Teacher Exchange Program in recognition of their work to improve mutual understanding among teachers, their schools and communities in the U.S. and abroad. The Presidents’ Award is presented to an individual or organization outside of the field that has demonstrated a commitment to education.