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In this issue:
LEADERSHIP UPDATES
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LETTER FROM THE CO-CHAIRS
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LETTER FROM THE CO-EDITORS
ARTICLES
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TESOL 2023 POST-CONVENTION REFLECTIONS
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TEA PARTY: CROSSING CULTURAL BOUNDARIES
ABOUT THIS COMMUNITY
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
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MEET THE LEADERSHIP TEAM OF THE ICIS FOR 2023-2024
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OUR MISSION
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MEET THE LEADERSHIP TEAM OF THE ICIS FOR 2023-2024
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Andrea Lypka is the Past TESOL ICIS Co-Chair and the President of the Sunshine State TESOL. As the E-Learning Program Manager for the Pinellas Education Foundation in Largo, Florida, she oversees digital equity and scholarship projects. She holds a doctorate in Second Language Acquisition. Her research focuses on intercultural communication, language learner identity, digital equity, and digital storytelling. You can contact her at alypka@mail.usf.edu |
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Barbara Lapornik, TESOL ICIS Past Co-Chair (2022-2023). In this role I actively promote and support our community as our leadership team concentrates on ICIS present and future steps and direction. I can be contacted at: barbara.lapornik@gmail.com. I am based in Trieste, Italy, and work for the bilingual high school LS F. Prešeren, also covering the role of the international project manager, who organizes and coordinates student and staff exchanges, competitions in civic education and English language certificates. I focus my research on the manifold aspects of intercultural student education in diverse contexts, presenting them at international conferences. |
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Roxanna Senyshyn is the Past Chair (2019-2020) and Past Co-Chair (2020-2021) of ICIS. In 2022-2023 she served as the TESOL 2023 Convention program coordinator of the Culture and Intercultural Communication Strand. Roxanna is an Associate Professor in Applied Linguistics and Communication Arts and Sciences at Abington College, Pennsylvania State University in Abington, PA, USA. Her teaching encompasses TESOL/ESL education, applied linguistics, and intercultural communication courses. Her research focuses on transformative intercultural learning in teacher education, intercultural competence development, English learner and newcomer family engagement, teacher professional development, and second language writing. In her current role in the ICIS she is a historian and she supports the leadership team in accomplishing its strategic goals. She can be reached at rsenyshyn@psu.edu. |
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Amy Alice Chastain,ICIS Advisor, Past Leadership (2012-2022). I am Associate Professor of Instruction at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, IA, USA and serve as Outreach Coordinator for ESL Programs, a member of the UI Charter Committee for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and Board President & Interim Executive Director of the Council for International Visitors to Iowa Cities. I have lived in France, China and the UAE and my research interests include exploring ways to encourage and build intercultural understanding and communicative competence; the use of ethnography and narrative; language choice and identity. My email is amy-chastain@uiowa.edu. |
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Leslie Bohon, ICIS Co-Chair. As Co-Chair with Josephine Prado, I collaborate with ICIS and TESOL members to carry out ICIS goals. I actively promote and support our community as our leadership team concentrates on ICIS present and future steps and direction. In my day job, I teach international students and conduct intercultural learning programs at the University of Richmond in Richmond, VA, USA as Director of English Language Learning. My research interests are international student development / experience and intercultural competence. I can be reached at leslie.bohon@richmond.edu. |
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Josephine Prado, ICIS Co-Chair. As Co-Chair with Leslie Bohon, I collaborate with ICIS and TESOL members to carry out ICIS goals. I actively promote and support our community as our leadership team concentrates on ICIS present and future steps and direction. I serve as Assistant Professor for English Learner Education in the School of Education at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. My research interests include intercultural competence in teacher education, and ESOL teachers’ efforts in advocacy. |
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Sharon Tjaden-Glass, ICIS Advisor, former Community Co-Manager. I can be reached at sharon.tjadenglass@gmail.com. I am an instructional media designer for the eLearning Division at Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio. I'm currently interested in best practices in instructional design for English learners, open educational resources, and intercultural listening. |
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Amina Douidi, ICIS Co-chair Elect and Outgoing Newsletter Co-Editor. As Co-Chair Elect, I am responsible for shadowing and assisting ICIS Chairs with their duties related to the Intercultural Communication Interest Section. I also support Nichole and Lorena in their roles as newsletter co-editors. I am a Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI) and Intercultural Communication independent consultant in ELT. I hold a doctorate from the University of Southampton, UK. My research focuses on intercultural representation, interaction and dialogic pedagogy. At TESOL ICIS, I aspire to get involved with diverse and critical perspectives on Intercultural Communication. Please feel free to contact me at aminadouidi.edu@gmail.com. |
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Ramin Yazdanpanah, ICIS Member-at-Large. As an ICIS Member-at-Large, I serve as a liaison between the ICIS and the general membership. I am the Director of Full Circle Language Learning. I also work as a project and applicant reviewer with the U.S. Department of State’s English Language Programs, as a teacher educator with the TESOL International Association, an EFL technical expert with the Learning Systems Institute at Florida State University, as well as an instructional designer and teacher educator with the Institute of Professional Adult Educators. Please feel free to contact me at raminyaz@gmail.com and connect with me on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/raminyaz/. |
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Daniela Silva, ICIS CoChair-Elect. As an ICIS CoChair-Elect, I will shadow the co-chairs and help prepare parts of the convention program. I hold a Ph.D. in Culture, Literacy, and Language from the University of Texas at San Antonio in the USA. I also hold an M.A. in TESOL from the University of Mississippi. In addition, I have taught EFL in Brazil and Portuguese at various U.S. universities. As a multilingual and multicultural educator, my research interests include teaching of culture, cultural and linguistic self-efficacy beliefs, TESOL, teacher education, and multicultural education. Please feel free to contact me at danielacdsilva92@gmail.com. |
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Sarah Hopkyns, ICIS Member-at-Large. As a new ICIS Member-at-Large, I look forward to supporting the ICIS by liaising between the leadership team and general members. I am currently an Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics at Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. In August 2023, I will start a new position as Lecturer of TESOL and International Education at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. I have a PhD in Educational Research in the discipline of Applied Linguistics from the University of Leicester, UK. My research interests include intercultural communication, English-medium instruction (EMI), English as a global language, cultural identities, linguistic diversity and inclusion, language policy, translingual practice, and linguistic landscapes. I have published widely in journals such as Asian Englishes, Linguistics and Education, Language and Intercultural Communication, Multilingua, Policy Futures in Education, and World Englishes, and have contributed numerous chapters to edited volumes. I am the author of The Impact of Global English on Cultural Identities in the United Arab Emirates (Routledge, 2020) and the co-editor of Linguistic Identities in the Arab Gulf States: Waves of Change (Routledge, 2022). Please feel free to contact me at slh29@st-andrews.ac.uk. |
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Melanie van den Hoven, ICIS Member-at-Large. As a new ICIS Member-at-Large, I hope to learn how to serve as a liaison between the ICIS and the general membership. I am currently working as a Lead Cross Cultural Communications Specialist at a nuclear power plant in the UAE. Before my current role, I have taught teachers in teacher training programs in Seoul and Abu Dhabi. I hold a Ph.D. in Intercultural Education from Durham University, U.K.. My research interests concern how people use the languages they know, with whom and under what conditions. Some topics include COVID-19 linguistic landscapes in the UAE and France, interculturality and English language teaching in Korean, Saudi and Emirati contexts, and English-medium policies and translanguaging practices in the UAE. My articles have appeared in journals such as World Englishes and Multilingua as well as in many edited volumes. |
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Lorena Bustos, ICIS Newsletter Co-Editor. My role is to encourage teachers and researchers across the globe to disseminate their work in the field of IC. You can contact Amina, Nichole and me at newsletter.icis.tesol@gmail.com with ideas, news, or articles for the ICIS Newsletter. I am currently an EAP teacher at Universidad de Los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. I have been teaching mainly Reading and Writing to undergraduate and MA students. My areas of interest are Academic Reading and Language Assessment. I have been supporting teachers helping them develop their understanding of the different processes needed to comprehend Academic Reading texts as well as the many aspects of language assessment literacy. Please feel free to contact me at pl.bustos@uniandes.edu.co. |
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Jennifer Lacroix, ICIS Past Chair (2021-2022). I am a pedagogy-focused applied linguist who is interested in the intersection of teaching and research. I taught at Boston University in Boston, MA, USA from 2009-2021 and now serve in a restorative social justice model in a public high school for Newcomers in Chelsea, MA, USA. I enjoy collaborating with the ICIS and the greater TESOL community to create professional development programs. Please feel free to contact me at lacroixj@bu.edu. |
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Nichole McVeigh, ICIS Newsletter Co-Editor. As co-editor, my role is to work with Lorena and Amina to publish quality newsletters and encourage contributions from teachers and researchers interested in intercultural communication and sharing their ideas and knowledge with the ICIS community. I am currently at EARTH University in Costa Rica where I teach English language classes as well as Conflict Resolution Communication Skills. In addition, I collaborate with other institutions to promote intercultural exchanges while discussing sustainable development, intercultural, and ecological peace. I received a PhD in Peace and Conflict Studies from the University for Peace (Costa Rica) and a MATL from the University of Southern Mississippi (USA). My areas of interest are intercultural communication, education for sustainable development and the intersections of language and peace education. Please feel free to contact me at nmcveigh@earth.ac.cr. |
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