March 2014
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Leadership Updates
LETTER FROM THE EDITORS
Krista Bittenbender Royal, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, & Christina Quartararo, St. John's University, Queens, New York

Dear IEP Community:


Krista Bittenbender Royal


Christina Quartararo

One again, our IEPIS newsletter offers a variety of information, from reflections on teaching and IEP administration (Steven Dunham’s “Shame Based Teaching” and Andy Curtis’s “Ethics and IEPs: Then and Now”), to articles on student issues (Ashlea Green’s “Green, Efficient, and Effective: iCalendars for Program Dates and Deadlines” and Kenneth Cranker’s “EFL in the United States”), to teaching tips like using VoiceThread for student presentations (Iona Sarieva’s “Employing Web 2.0 Technologies for Presentation Skills Development, or How to Overcome the Fear of Death”) and a book review of a student textbook (“Review of Pathways 2,” by Amber Kantner, Alan Orr, and Haley Winters). Also in this edition we are introducing a new feature—IEPIS member interviews! If you are willing to be interviewed for our new Meet the Members section, please let us know.

Of course, we are also getting ready for the convention in Portland, Oregon, USA (March 26–29), and we hope to see many of you there.

The IEP Interest Section Open Meeting is on Thursday, March 27, 2014, 6:45–8:15 pm in Room C123 of the Convention Center. Please consider attending this meeting to share your thoughts with the IEPIS Steering Committee.

Also consider joining us for the IEPIS Academic Session, one of our InterSections, or any of the other 70+ presentations, workshops, discussion groups, colloquiums, poster sessions, and teaching tips in the IEP Interest Section.

2014 IEPIS Academic Sessions and InterSections:

“ESP in the IEP: Addressing a Range of Specific Needs”
Presenters:
Ethel Swartley, Kay Westerfield, David Kertzner, Caralyn Bushey, Yinghuei Chen
Interest Sections: English for Specific Purposes; Intensive English Programs

“Exploring the Potential of a Flipped Classroom in ESL Contexts”
Presenters:
Robin Brinks Lockwood, Helaine Marshall, John Graney, Jesse Sauer
Interest Section: Intensive English Programs

“Helping IEP Students Develop Their Academic Writing Skills”
Presenters:
Caralyn Bushey, Kyung-Hee Bae, Stephanie Vandrick, Daniela Wagner-Loera
Interest Sections: Intensive English Programs, Second Language Writing, Nonnative English Speakers in TESOL

“Writing and Multilingual Student Success in Higher Education”
Presenters:
Caralyn Bushey, Kenneth Janjigian, Jennifer Ritter, Tara Smith
Interest Sections: Higher Education, Intensive English Programs

We are pleased to have a community that is as diverse in its interests as ours!


Krista Bittenbender Royal is a senior instructor at the University of South Florida’s English Language Program, INTO USF.


Christina Quartararo is the assistant director of the Language Connection: The English Language Institute of St. John’s University.

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