Greetings! I’m pleased to share with you the latest edition of On CALL. This preconvention special issue is packed with information about Electronic Village (EV) events at the Seattle TESOL convention as well as some articles that explore pedagogy and teaching using computer-assisted language learning (CALL). Make sure you see the sidebar or here for the EV Program, which Mr. Justin Shewell, a former chair, has put into a searchable PDF version. Here is the link for the online version.

I’d like to thank my contributors in reverse order so I can recognize our most active contributor: Ms. Suzan Stamper. Suzan, a senior lecturer and English language team leader at Yew Chung Community College in Hong Kong (and longtime newsletter editor), continues to pull in articles in her 10th anniversary Making Connections column. In this issue, she introduces to CALL-ISers some familiar faces who have moved on to other positions in TESOL. Also in this issue, another familiar face is Helaine W. Marshall, of Long Island University/Hudson, writing about “Flipped Learning in a Linguistics Class.” Additionally, I’d like to thank Jack Watson, the 2016 TESOL CALL-IS chair and ELP e-learning coordinator at the University of New Brunswick English Language Programme, for his steady leadership over all things related to CALL-IS. This year looks to be a year of great change for CALL-IS and TESOL as well. Jack has carefully navigated these waters with a steady hand. His first mate, Claudio Fleury, the 2017 TESOL CALL-IS chair-elect and supervisor of the advanced adult and ESP courses at Casa Thomas Jefferson in Brasília, has also been active in CALL-IS for many years. Please take some time to read both of their letters to find out more about some of the new directions that TESOL is considering.

Even if you can’t make it to the convention, there are a wide variety of ways to stay active professionally. If you haven’t already, please make sure you see the sidebar in this issue for links to the EV Program, which Mr. Justin Shewell, a former chair, has put into a searchable PDF version. Follow the CALL-IS and Electronic Village events at the TESOL Convention 2017 on our Facebook Page, TESOL CALL Interest Section and follow us on Twitter.

If there is something that you would like to see in our newsletter or if you’d like to join the newsletter team, contact me.

Thanks and hope to hear from you soon,

Larry

Larry Udry has worked at Divine Word College, a small Catholic seminary in Epworth, Iowa, since 2003. He has published the CALL- IS newsletter and has served on the CALL-IS Steering Committee since 2009. Recently, he published an environmentally-themed ESL e-text with Kendall Hunt. Prior to his position at Divine Word College, he worked in UT Martin for 11 years, where he published the TNTESOL Newsletter.