SPLIS Newsletter - March 2023 (Plain Text Version)
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LEADERSHIP UPDATES LETTER FROM THE CHAIRS Joshua Gordon, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa, USA
Dear SPLISers, As we begin a new year, we would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your continuing support to our Speech, Pronunciation, and Listening Interest Section. It has been an exciting year of continuous growth for our interest section, and we are looking forward to continuing the support of your teaching of oral skills in expanded ways in 2023. This year we hosted a total of 10 webinars that focused on research-oriented topics or more pedagogically oriented classroom applications. Please remember that you can watch recordings of our previous webinars on the TESOL YouTube channel. Our webinars have been one of the most successful activities for professional development in our interest section in recent years, and we look forward to hosting more high-quality webinars in the upcoming year. Stay tuned! This past October we launched another form of professional development for you: the SPLIS Podcast! Through this new podcast, you will be able to get bite-size information about the latest trends in the teaching and learning of oral skills. Our very first episode featured Professor Tamara Jones, who discussed the importance of word recognition in listening comprehension. Our second guest, Professor Dustin Crowther, talked about issues related to Global Englishes in English language teaching these days. Finally, our third episode featured Professors Veronica Sardegna and Anna Jarosz who talked about perception of word stress in L2 learners. We are excited and looking forward to hosting more guests in the new year to discuss all sorts of topics about the teaching and learning of speaking, pronunciation, and listening comprehension. Please remember to subscribe to the SPLIS Podcast through your favorite podcast platform, and stay tuned for more episodes. We are also getting ready for the Annual TESOL Convention in Portland, OR, from March 21st to 24th of 2023. As usual, SPLIS will participate in the convention through Academic Sessions and Intersection Interest Sessions. Our Academic Session will focus on the teaching and learning of listening comprehension, and it will take place during the online section of the convention. We are also looking forward to our collaborations with other interest sections. Our first collaboration, in which we will be the primary organizer, will be with the CALL-Interest Section. Additionally, we will collaborate with the Materials Writers Interest Section as the secondary organizer IS. These two Intersection Interest Sessions will take place during the in-person convention. We hope to see many of you in Portland! Last but not least, we would like to take this opportunity to invite you to submit your teaching ideas to As We Speak! If you have a teaching tip, an activity, lesson plan, or idea about the teaching and learning of oral skills that you would like to share with the SPLIS community, please feel free to contact us (Joshua Gordon joshua.gordon@uni.edu, Meghan Moran mkm338@nau.edu ) or the newsletter editors Brandon Cooper (bcooper@tamu.edu ) and Mara Haslam (mara.haslam@su.se ) for more information about the publication process. Our newsletter is a venue for all members to collaborate and exchange ideas about the teaching and learning of oral skills, and we look forward to working with you. If you see us at a virtual SPLIS webinar or the TESOL convention, we would love for you to introduce yourself and share any ideas you may have of how we can better support the membership of SPLIS. In the meantime, we wish you a happy holiday season, a (however brief) respite from grading, and a prosperous New Year! Sincerely, Joshua Gordon, Chair 2022-2023 Meghan Moran, Chair-Elect 2023-2024
Joshua Gordon is Assistant Professor of TESOL and Applied Linguistics at the University of Northern Iowa. He received his Ph.D. in Second Language Studies from Indiana University, Bloomington. He has taught ESL, EFL, and Spanish as a foreign language. He has trained pre-service and in-service teachers in ESL and EFL contexts. Meghan Moran is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the University Writing Program at Northern Arizona University. She received a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from NAU in 2016. Her professional interests include speech perception, L2 pronunciation and intelligibility, language planning and policy, language education policy, and linguistic discrimination.
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