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Mara Haslam
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Brandon Cooper
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Dear Readers,
We now find ourselves two years out from the beginning of the global COVID-19 pandemic. While it seems like there may be light at the end of the pandemic tunnel, there are also many things right now that are uncertain for TESOL professionals and their students: questions about whether instruction should be in person or online, use of masks in teaching, vaccination requirements, and more. We have found, however, that members of our profession have proven to be resilient in adjusting to changing instructional formats and student needs. Despite these changes and the change of the TESOL Conventions in 2020 and 2021 to digital formats, new ideas and new research in our field have continued to emerge. We are pleased to present some of this new information to you in this month’s newsletter.
This newsletter features Rucynski and Prichard’s ideas on teaching sarcasm and irony, Leopold’s suggestions on teaching public speaking, Wittner’s tips on creating more speaking opportunities for students, and Liu and Reed’s use of complexity theory to inform pronunciation teaching. We hope that these teaching-focused pieces will inform and inspire.
We would like to express our gratitude to the people whose work is featured in this issue, as well as the SPLIS committee members and student workers who helped to prepare the material for publication.
We hope that those of you who are working on upcoming projects that may be relevant to this newsletter will contact us about submission. The deadline for submission for the next issue is January 20, 2022.
Sending our best,
Brandon Cooper and Mara Haslam, editors |
