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| LEADERSHIP UPDATES |
| LETTER FROM THE CHAIR |
Maria Mendoza, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA |
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| LETTER FROM THE CHAIR-ELECT |
Stacy Suhadolc, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA |
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| LETTER FROM THE EDITORS |
James Coda, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA
Sarah Emory, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA |
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| ARTICLES |
| EVIDENCE FROM AUTHENTIC ITA DISCOURSE AND TOEFL IBT SPEAKING RESPONSES IN SUPPORT OF ITA ASSESSMENT |
Elena Cotos, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA |
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This invited article is a summary of Cotos’s keynote talk at
the 2020 ITA Professionals Symposium. Cotos first introduces a lasting
problem our international teaching assistant (ITA) support community has
been facing and whether the TOEFL iBT® Speaking
test may be considered a solution, even if partial. Then, she describes
key insights from her studies of ITA discourse that support the
plausibility of using the TOEFL iBT Speaking
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| TV CLIPS TO RAISE ITAS' AWARENESS OF BIDIALECTALISM AND THE RHOTIC /R/ |
Roger Anderson, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA |
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This article shares a classroom activity designed around video
clips used to raise international teaching assistants’ (ITAs’) awareness
of linguistic features and comprehensibility. The humorous clips
presented embody the diversity of American English, the ability to
attain bidialectalism, and the importance of the rhotic accent to widely
comprehensible speech. Read More |
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| ITA COURSES DURING COVID-19: A SURVEY ABOUT REMOTE LEARNING (BEFORE, DURING, AND FUTURE) |
Stacy Suhadolc, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA |
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The COVID-19 outbreak forced U.S. universities to move courses
online during spring 2020. This article discusses the results from a
survey of international teaching assistant (ITA) instructors and
administrators who dealt with this change and their plans for future
courses if they were to be remote again. Read More |
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| PRESENTING A POSTER SESSION |
Maria B. Mendoza and Jennifer C. Grill, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA |
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The authors, experienced poster presenters, share advice and
guidance on submitting poster presentations to conferences, the benefits
of poster sessions, and useful strategies for a successful poster
presentation. Read More |
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| ABOUT THIS COMMUNITY |
| HISTORY OF ITA INTEREST SECTION |
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| CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR ITA-IS NEWSLETTER |
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