CALL Newsletter - March 2020 (Plain Text Version)

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In this issue:
LEADERSHIP UPDATES
• LETTER FROM THE CO-CHAIRS
• 21ST-CENTURY TECHNOLOGY AND LANGUAGE LEARNING: IMPORTANT NEW EVENTS AT THE 2020 TESOL CALL-IS ELECTRONIC VILLAGE AND TECHNOLOGY SHOWCASE
• LETTER FROM THE COEDITORS
ARTICLES
• BEYOND WORD MEANING: INCREASING LEARNERS' COLLOCATIONAL COMPETENCE THROUGH THE COCA
ABOUT THIS COMMUNITY
• CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

LETTER FROM THE COEDITORS

Suzanne Bardasz, University of Pacific, International, Stockton, California, USA
Larry Udry, Divine Word College, Epworth, Iowa, USA

Suzanne Bardasz

Larry Udry
Hello CALL-ISers! We hope that all of you are enjoying the winter in whatever hemisphere you are! This issue previews some of the changes in the CALL-IS Electronic Village at the upcoming Convention. Details can be found in the letter from Christine Sabieh. In addition, Jennifer Meyer and Maria Tomeho-Palermino offer a glimpse of the Convention and Electronic Village in Denver. Back for a repeat performance are Jose Franco and Kara MacDonald, explaining how to use the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) to teach awareness of collocations.

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Suzanne and Larry

Suzanne Bardasz currently works at the University of Pacific, International as their academic coordinator. She previously taught at UC Davis and at the Korea Advanced Institute for Science and Technology (KAIST) in Daejeon, South Korea.

Larry Udry has worked at Divine Word College, a small Catholic seminary in Epworth, Iowa, USA 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 the UT Martin TIEP for 11 years, and he published the TNTESOL Newsletter.