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LETTER FROM THE CHAIR-ELECT
Elizabeth Wittner, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
Dear colleagues,
My name is Liz Wittner and I am the new chair-elect for the ITA
Interest Section. I have been involved in TESOL for the past 25 years,
but came to higher ed and ITA training about a dozen years ago. I find
ITA work completely fascinating and engaging as it cuts across so many
of my interests: oral English, pedagogy, and intercultural
communication. I very much enjoy being with others who are captivated by
this work as well, so it was great to see some of you at TESOL in
Philadelphia last month. What an interesting and talented group of
people we have in this IS! I look forward to meeting, or at least having
written conversations with, those of you I haven’t yet met.
I am honored to be the chair-elect of the ITAIS. I hope to use the
coming year to focus on learning leadership skills from our chair Kim
Kenyon and past-chair Kathi Cennamo, as well as the many knowledgeable
people who have put in so much time in building this IS. I also plan to
pay close attention to the themes that arise in our IS so that we can
pursue these in later Academic and InterSection sessions as well as
online. Finally, I’m hoping to learn about ways we can draw in others
who are involved in ITA programs and who could contribute so much to our
dialogue on ITA issues. I look forward to working with all of
you!
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