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Dear Esteemed Colleagues,
Hello from sunny Can Tho, Vietnam! As some of you may already
know, I have recently left my position as an instructional specialist at
Cornell University, where I was involved in the ITA program. Life has
taken me to this Mekong Delta city, where I will be living for the next
year or so. I was happy to be able to continue to serve in my role as
ITAIS newsletter editor during this
transition and international move.
This issue is short and sweet. It offers a promising
vocabulary-building technique for ITAs from our colleague Fernanda
Capraro and an overview of a fruitful ITA subgroup meeting in the United
States from another colleague, Elizabeth Gilstrom. As always, it’s
beneficial to hear about what has worked for us in our classrooms and
what kind of exchanges and conversations are taking place among
colleagues, so thank you to this issue’s authors for their
contributions.
Before signing off, I would like to say Happy New Year to all
of you. May 2014, the year of the horse, continue to bring
conversations, collaborations, and more within our interest section and
beyond. Our next issue will be in just this spirit. We have been collaborating with the Applied
Linguists Interest Section on a co-publication. I am very excited about
the substantial articles that colleagues have contributed, and I think
it’s all coming together quite nicely. We intend to have this issue out
before the TESOL convention in March, so stay tuned! All the best!
Pauline Carpenter |
