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Grab your favorite beverage and join fellow English language teachers. We will spend this hour conversing about our lives, sharing classroom practices, learning, and making new friends. Let’s value virtual connections - join us to network, share, and learn! TESOL Live! is offered at no cost to TESOL members and nonmembers. Advance registration is required.
TESOL Live! is hosted by the TESOL Membership Professional Council (MPC) on the third Saturday of every month at 8am Eastern time.
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June's TESOL Live
Join us 21 June 2025
Chat with your global colleagues, share classroom practices, and build your network at this month's TESOL Live!
We will be joined by our featured guest, Jo Mynard, professor, director of the Self-Access Learning Center, and director of the Research Institute for Learner Autonomy Education at Kanda University of International Studies in Japan, who will be discussing:
How to Get Published
In this interactive session, Jo Mynard will share insights from over a decade of running Candlin & Mynard Publishing, a small academic press dedicated to applied linguistics and language education. Participants will explore practical aspects of academic publishing, including how to prepare a book proposal, make research accessible to teachers, turn a thesis into a publishable book, and choose between self-publishing and working with a press. The session will also touch on emerging tools like AI and formats for showcasing teacher-scholars’ work.
About our Featured Guest
Jo Mynard has worked in language education for over thirty years. She is a specialist in language learner autonomy, advising, self-access, language learning beyond the classroom, and the psychology of language learning. She has taught in Spain, Ireland, the UK, the United Arab Emirates, and Japan. She is currently a professor, Director of the Self-Access Learning Center, and Director of the Research Institute for Learner Autonomy Education at Kanda University of International Studies in Japan. She has authored / co-authored / co-edited 11 books on language learner autonomy and related themes. She is the Editor-in-Chief of two academic journals and is on the editorial board for several others.