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Mara Haslam
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Brandon Cooper
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Dear readers,
The pandemic has loosened its grip on the world somewhat and things are starting to go “back to normal.” Maybe you, like us, have been wondering what this “new normal” will look like and how it will affect our teaching. As always, it’s good to have quality information about best practices, no matter what our teaching looks like going forward.
We are proud to offer such information in this edition of the newsletter. In this edition, Brad Kneirem offers his suggestions for getting the most out of textbooks; Lynn Henrichsen shares ideas for using online pronunciation resources; John Rucynski shares techniques for encouraging extensive listening in English; and Marnie Reed reminds us of the importance of listening as one of the four skills. We hope you will find these articles informative and inspiring for your teaching practice.
We would like to express our gratitude to the people whose work is featured in this issue, as well as those who helped to prepare the material for publication.
We are always interested in quality material that touches on the interests of the SPLIS interest section: listening, speaking, and pronunciation. If you would like to submit an article for an upcoming newsletter, please note that the deadline for the Fall 2022 newsletter is September 15, 2022.
Wishing you well-being and good teaching!
Mara Haslam and Brandon Cooper, editors
Mara Haslam works as a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Language Education at Stockholm University, Sweden. Mara received a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Utah in 2011. Her research interests include second language phonology, including using laboratory methods to identify priorities for pronunciation teaching.
Brandon Cooper is Assistant Director in the Center for Teaching Excellence at Texas A&M University. He earned his PhD in Linguistics from the University of South Carolina in 2020. His research interests include communication for learning, perceptual factors in spoken language comprehension, and critical language pedagogy. His most recent work appears in Proceedings of the 11th Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching Conference. | 
