ICIS Newsletter - August 2021 (Plain Text Version)

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In this issue:
•  LETTER FROM THE CO-CHAIR
•  LETTER FROM THE CO-EDITORS
ARTICLES
•  LIGHTNING TALKS: RESEARCH IN 5 MINUTES OR LESS
•  L2 SPEAKING ANXIETY, VIRTUAL LEARNING, AND INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION
•  USING CONVERSATION ANALYSIS AS A METHOD TO EXPLORE INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION
MEMBER SPOTLIGHT
•  HA NGUYEN
ABOUT THIS COMMUNITY
•  MEET THE ICIS LEADERSHIP FOR 2021-22
•  INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION INTEREST SECTION MISSION STATEMENT
•  CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
•  SAVE THE DATE FOR FALL ICIS EVENTS

 

ARTICLES

LIGHTNING TALKS: RESEARCH IN 5 MINUTES OR LESS

Jennifer Lacroix, Co-Chair

In February 2021, the ICIS launched a new space for current doctoral students to share their work in progress with the greater TESOL community and beyond. After ICIS posted a call for proposals, ICIS selected five students from around the world to share a five-minute (or less) overview of their current research projects and how their work relates to intercultural communicative competence (ICC). The platform, hosted by ICIS and organized by Co-Chairs Drs. Natalia Balyasnikova and Jennifer Lacroix, provided a space for doctoral students to practice the art of boiling down their work into a short, sharp hit.

Participants and their research:

  • Halima Boualli: Designing an intercultural-based syllabus to enhance EFL learners’ intercultural communicative competence: The case of first year majors at Constantine University
  • Amina Douidi: Essentialism in the language classroom
  • Nichole McVeigh: Integrating conflict resolution skills in the English classroom: Building peace through communication
  • Jill Pagels: What a focused research study in second language writing reveals about culture
  • Fabiana Stalknaker: Foreign language speaking anxiety and the online learner


ICIS has an open call for their next Lightning Talk series for doctoral students to share emerging trends in ICC. ICIS will post another call later this fall for practitioners to share their practical ICC tips in the same format. Next Lightning Talk: Friday, September 24, 2021 at 12pm ET. Registration information to follow in August.

Jennifer A. Lacroix, Ed.D. is a pedagogy-focused applied linguist with expertise in second language acquisition research and its applications to language teaching. She is also an accomplished TESOL trainer with deep knowledge of various teaching methodologies and evidence-based practices. Currently, she is a bilingual English Language Development Teacher at a secondary school in Chelsea, MA, and teaches a research methods course to graduate-level students at Boston University, where she has taught since 2009. She presents widely at international conferences and frequently co-authored publications with her collaborators.