Leadership Updates

Letter from the Chair

2004-2005 ALIS chair David Olsher provides an update on the business of the Applied Linguistics Interest Section.
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Letter from the Chair-Elect

An introduction from 2004-2005 ALIS chair-elect Noel Houck.
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From the Editors

ALIS editors Stefan Frazier and Isaiah W. Yoo provide an overview of articles appearing in this issue of AL Forum.
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Articles and Information

A Microgenetic Approach to the Study of Language Learning

Joan Kelly Hall writes on the use of microgenetic methods to study second and foreign language learning.
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Cultural Differences in Classroom Turn-taking and Implications for the ESOL Context

Deborah Poole discusses the nature of classroom turn-taking in several different linguistic and cultural contexts and how it can shed light on issues of class participation in second language (L2) classrooms.
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Investigating Speaking Practices in TESOL Talk: Teacher-Initiated Sequences That Assist Students to Correct Errors

Irene Koshik writes how conversation analysis research is useful for discovering fine details of specific practices of talk that language educators ordinarily may not notice through casual or even repeated observation.
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Pair-Work Talk, Transitions, and Interactional Authenticity

David Olsher provides a study that represents the applied use of conversation analysis. Rather than try to discover interactional phenomena more generally, this study takes a predetermined focus on talk in an institutional context (an English-as-a-foreign-language classroom) and in particular a pair-work speaking task that constrains interaction in particular ways.
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Call for Submissions

You are encouraged to submit articles for the newsletter.
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About TESOL's Applied Linguistics Interest Section

Learn more about TESOL's Applied Linguistics Interest Section, including how you can become involved in leadership of the community.
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