SLWIS Newsletter - March 2021 (Plain Text Version)
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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR Elena Taylor, Utah State University, Logan, UT, USA
Greetings SLWIS Members! Happy new year and welcome to this pre-convention issue of SLW News! I would like to start by expressing my gratitude to your continuous support, encouragement, and involvement in our professional community. I am especially grateful for the authors who contributed to this issue of the newsletter, giving the opportunity to our readers to learn from their teaching and research experiences. In this issue, SLWIS Chair Aylin Atilgan Relyea provides a report of the activities that SLWIS held in the fall of 2020, describes convention sessions sponsored by our interest section, and tells the members about other professional development opportunities within our community. The issue features four articles on various topics regarding second language writing. Özgür Çelik, an instructor from Balikesir University, Turkey, discusses the concept of academic integrity in its relation to L2 writing development. The co-authored piece by Ali Yaylali, Hadi Banat, and Aleksey Novikov provides practical examples from a learner corpus that instructors can implement in K-12 settings. Lauren Lesce reflects on her experience reading the recent volume edited by Nigel Caplan and Ann Johns Changing Practices for the L2 Writing Classroom: Moving Beyond the Five-Paragraph Essay and offers suggestions to those teachers who work in “5PE-adopting” programs. Finally, Pamela Stacey and Lê Hữu Hoàng Anh from Fulbright University Vietnam share their personal reflections on Vietnamese and American English academic writing conventions. Our regular section, Graduate Student Spotlight, features Mark Christiansen, a graduate student at Utah State University. We enjoy hearing from graduate students, and as always, we encourage master’s and doctoral students who pursue their work in the field of L2 writing to contribute to this section of SLW News. Please contact Elena Taylor for more information. To conclude, I once again would like to thank you all for your invaluable support of our professional community. I hope you will enjoy reading this issue of the newsletter, and I encourage you to send us your submissions for future issues. We look for a wide range of articles, including teaching ideas, research reports, classroom insights, and reflections on professional development. We also publish book and material reviews. So if you have recently read a book on L2 writing or used an L2 writing textbook or other materials (print, digital, or online) in your class, consider reviewing them for SLW News. For more information about book and material reviews, contact Steven Bookman. The deadline for submissions for the October issue is June 30. For more information, please visit the Submission Guidelines in this issue. I hope you enjoy this issue. Happy reading! Best wishes, Elena Taylor |
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