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Dear SPLISers,
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Amanda Huensch
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Lauren Lovvorn
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Hello to all. We hope everyone’s 2014 has been productive and
educational so far and continues to be a great year in all of your
adventurous projects and teaching endeavors.
We present to you a great first issue of our 2014 newsletter.
We have an article exploring the method of using technology to promote
better speaking and listening skills. In addition, we have a book review
that explores the strengths and weaknesses of the Pathways book series.
We hope to see many of you in Portland this month. We have a
great SPLIS agenda and we hope you are able to take advantage of the
opportunity to learn, grow, and share professionally. We encourage SPLIS
presenters to share your presentation materials in the SPLIS library on
the TESOL website after the convention!
As always, we want to remind everyone to share the wonderful
things you do in your classroom or the great research you are working on
with your fellow SPLIS community in our upcoming issues of As
We Speak. We will be accepting submissions for the second 2014
newsletter in June. We as an Interest Section are only as strong as our
members make us, so let’s continue to grow together.
Finally, we must say farewell to Amanda as co-editor because as
of this March, she is the new chair-elect. Congratulations to Amanda,
and we wish you the best of luck.
Our best to you all,
Amanda Huensch and Lauren Lovvorn
Co-editors of the SPLIS Newsletter
Amanda Huensch is an assistant professor in the
Applied Linguistics/TESL MA program at the University of South Florida.
She holds a PhD in linguistics from the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign.
Lauren Lovvorn has an MA in applied linguistics from
Georgia State University and is currently an instructor in the Intensive
English Program at the University of Alabama. Her interest in
pronunciation began her first semester of graduate school, and since
then she has taught several workshops and presented at various
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