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| LEADERSHIP UPDATES |
| LETTER FROM THE CHAIR |
| Stephen Looney, Pennsylvania State University-University Park, State College, Pennsylvania, USA |
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| LETTER FROM THE PAST CHAIR |
| Elizabeth Gillstrom, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
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| LETTER FROM THE EDITOR |
| Laura Murphy, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA |
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| ARTICLES |
| HOW WE SURVIVED OUR FIRST-YEAR TEACHING AS NEW ITAS |
| Xin Chen, Jui-Hsin Hung, Yeoeun Park, & Jun Takahashi, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA |
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In this article, four international teaching assistants (ITAs)
who teach English academic writing to ESL students in a U.S. university
discuss the most challenging issues they faced in the first year of
teaching and illustrate how they tackled those problems. The purpose of
this article is to create a fruitful discussion and also provide some
suggestions to program administrators for effectively supporting and
preparing new ITAs. Read More |
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| ACTIVITIES FOR ITAS TO PRACTICE LEADING DISCUSSIONS |
| Denise Mussman, University of Missouri-St. Louis, Missouri, USA |
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Learn about the need to incorporate group discussions into the
ITA curriculum. The author’s activities are engaging ways for ITAs to
improve fluency, audience awareness, and learn the challenging skill of
leading an academic talk. Read More |
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| ABOUT THIS COMMUNITY |
| WHAT IS THE ITAIS INTEREST SECTION? |
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