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TESOL, a professional association for English language educators, offers a variety of resources and networking opportunities for professionals involved in higher education settings.
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- More Than A Native Speaker, Revised Edition
Learning the craft of English language teaching by trial and error can take a long time and involve considerable emotional wear and tear on teachers and students. This book accelerates the process by offering a nontechnical introduction to English teaching geared toward native-English-speaking teachers working outside their home countries.
- Collaborative Conversations Among Language Teacher Educators
This distinctive volume captures collaborative work among language teacher educators. Rich hours of conversation enable teacher educators to critically engage with issues concerning language teaching and language learning. As the participants observe, reflective practice is often "replayed at a distance through journal articles and conference presentations."
- Discuss Your Views: TESOL Quarterly Forum Online
Subscribers can access an online bulletin board to discuss topics raised in the TESOL Quarterly Forum.
- Position Statement on Professional Equity for the Field of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (October 2003; PDF)
TESOL is in favor of commensurate salaries, benefits, working conditions, and workloads across disciplines in order to foster academic and intellectual equity and integrity in academic institutions and in society at large. This position statement was approved by TESOL's board of directors in 2003.
- Guide to Professional Development in TESOL
The paths to professionalism in the field of TESOL are as diverse as the profession itself. This guide helps orient readers towards opportunities to enhance professionalism.
- Directory of Teacher Education Programs in TESOL in the United States and Canada, 2005-2007
Note: This directory provides information about nearly 420 programs in 232 institutions in the United States and Canada. Entries describe program length, requirements, courses, staff, tuition, fees, admission requirements, and summer sessions. State and provincial requirements for teaching ESL are also included.
- Intensive English Programs in Postsecondary Settings
In Intensive English Programs in Postsecondary Settings, the authors--practicing teachers and course developers--explain how full-time English language programs are planned, taught, and managed in different parts of the world.
- State of the Art TESOL Essays: Celebrating 25 Years of the Discipline
As both a synthesis for and a vision of the future, this book serves as the foundation volume to survey and methods courses as well as to classes focusing on materials development and teacher preparation.
- The TESOL Quarterly Dialogues: Rethinking Issues of Language, Culture, and Power
This volume brings teaching theory and teaching practice together in a mutually informative way. TESOL Quarterly readers and writers discuss, in the form of written dialogue, the influence each has had on the other. These readers and writers are teacher researchers, teacher educators, and research analysts. Their dialogues demonstrate that practical experience can deepen understanding of theory and lead practitioners to question its tenets.
- About the Caucus on Part-time Employment Concerns (COPTEC)
Goals of the Caucus on Part-time Employment Concerns (COPTEC) include raising awareness of TESOL members by showing that part-timers are a dynamic, serious, and vital element within the profession.
- The TESOL/NCATE Standards for the Accreditation of Initial Programs in P-12 ESL Teacher Education (PDF, 2MB)
This comprehensive document contains detailed information on the standards as well as information for those preparing to submit program reports to NCATE.
- Pronunciation Pedagogy and Theory: New Views, New Directions
Contributors deal with assessing pronunciation, empowering students for self-instruction, teaching intonation, using voice quality settings in ESL, and creating a multidimensional curriculum design for speech-pronunciation instruction.
- English for Specific Purposes
English for specific purposes (ESP) opens up rich opportunities for English teachers and researchers in new professional domains. Whatever one's teaching context, these case studies offer much to learn about curriculum and course planning, implementation, and evaluation.
- Visit the U.S. Advocacy Action Center
TESOL's U.S. Advocacy Action Center includes detailed information on the U.S. Congress including a congressional directory, legislation and bills, and communication tools.
- Position Paper on Equitable Treatment for Part-time, Adjunct, and Contingent Faculty (March 2003, amended June 2006; PDF)
TESOL has long opposed excessive use and exploitation of part-time, adjunct, and contingent and adjunct faculty, because it undermines academic quality and freedom and respect for teaching.
- Position Statement on Degree-Granting Credit for ESL Courses (June 2000; PDF)
TESOL advocates that degree-granting credit be awarded to ESOL students for successful completion of coursework in English as a second or foreign language in institutions of higher education.
- How to Get Copies of TESOL Quarterly Articles
Information for subscribers and nonsubscribers on where to get copies of individual TESOL Quarterly articles.
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