ITAIS Newsletter - May 2022 (Plain Text Version)

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In this issue:
•  LETTER FROM THE CHAIR
•  LETTER FROM THE CHAIR-ELECT
•  LETTER FROM THE EDITORS
ARTICLES
•  USING THE CULTURE MAP TO UNDERSTAND AMERICAN (AND ITA'S OWN) CULTURE
•  AUTHOR REFLECTION ON THE CHAPTER "ENHANCING INTERNATIONALIZATION AT HOME THROUGH UNDERGRADUATES VOLUNTEERING FOR AN ITA PROGRAM"
•  TEACHING TIP: THE USE OF FOCUS WORDS IN MICRO-TEACHING PRESENTATIONS
•  INCREASING PROGRAM VISIBILITY WHILE EMPOWERING INTERNATIONAL TEACHING ASSISTANTS
ABOUT THIS COMMUNITY
•  ITAIS COMMUNITY EVENTS UPDATE
•  HISTORY OF ITA INTEREST SECTION
•  CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR ITAIS NEWSLETTER
•  TESOL ITA-IS NEW MEMBERS

 

LETTER FROM THE EDITORS

Haley Dolosic, Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, US
Ekaterina Arshavskaya, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, USA



Haley Dolosic


Ekaterina Arshavskaya

Hello everyone!

We hope you are well. Welcome to our summer ITAIS newsletter of 2022. Recently, we all were able to enjoy some of the more of back-to-normal life both in our personal and professional domains. Many of us were able to re-connect at the 2022 International TESOL Convention, either virtually or in-person. Also, the ITA working group and the listserv have continued to help us maintain our connections with one another and learn from one another. The ITAIS webinars also offered various new perspectives and insights into our work. We cannot thank you all enough!

In this newsletter, we would also like to thank our previous newsletter editors, Sarah Emory and James Coda, and welcome Haley Dolosic in joining the team!

In this issue, we have an article by Roger Anderson on using Erin Meyer’s The Culture Map book to understand cultures with ITAs. In another article, Lixia Cheng shares her reflection and salient themes from a recent book chapter on internationalization efforts in the context of an ITA preparation program that she authored. Then, Jennifer Grill and Maria Mendoza offer excellent teaching tips to prepare students (ITAs) for their first micro-teaching assignment. Finally, Jen Brondell and Tracey McGee propose their ideas about how to increase ITA programs’ visibility at academic institutions.

And don’t forget to check out our community events page and contact James Coda to let him know what webinars you want to see this coming year!

See you virtually and in-person!

Haley Dolosic and Ekaterina (“Katya”) Arshavskaya

ITAIS Newsletter Co-Editors

Hailey Dolosic, Ph.D. Special projects manager, Washington University in St Louis. My specializations include second language reading, second language self-assessment, and language research methodology. My most recent research centralizes on L2 reading self-assessment across diverse linguistic backgrounds and advanced research methodology in applied linguistics.

Ekaterina Arshavskaya, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the intensive English program at Utah State University (USU). She is also in charge of the international teaching assistants’ training program and has been appointed to co-direct the Master's in Second Language Teaching program at the same university.