Welcome to the NNEST Interest Section Website! We're glad you're
here.
As the NNEST CAUCUS we had a great 10 years, and our thanks to
all the Caucus Members and all the Caucus Leaders who lead us so well and so
far. We must particularly mention all the Caucus
Presidents: George Braine, Jun Liu, Lia Kamhi-Stein, Paul Matsuda, Masaki
Oda, Ahmar Mahboob, Lucie Moussu, Karen Newman, Luciana C. de Oliveira.
Now, as the NNEST INTEREST SECTION, with new roles, new
orientations on research, and new areas for outreach, we will work hard to
achieve the same kind of success that the Caucus had and we hope you'll join us
in making that happen. It is very important to us that the Interest Section find
ways to maintain the sense of community, the support for member publication, and
the commitment to developing new leaders that so characterized the Caucus. Those
are some big shoes to fill, but together we can manage it.
Over the next few months as the transition from Caucus to
Interest Section occurs, we may need some help from you--engaging in processes
like indicating that you want to be an NNEST Interest Section Member (and we
hope you'll decide to make the NNEST IS your primary Interest Section), and
participating in Interest Section elections (which we intend to carry out online
in February so new officers will be ready to lead at the TESOL Convention in
Denver). When we have guidance from Central Office on such matters we will let
you know as soon as we can--your participation gives our Interest Section all
its meaning..
If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, don't hesitate
to contact us--we'll do our best to help
Katya Nemtchinova, NNEST IS
transitional Chair (and final Chair Elect of the NNEST Caucus!) Brock Brady, NNEST IS transitional Chair
Elect
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What's New
December 2008
The International Association for the Integrational Study of
Language and Communication (IAISLC) in collaboration with The Amsterdam Center
for Language & Communication (Research group Sociolinguistic aspects of
multilingualism) announces an international symposium on"The Native Speaker
and the Mother Tongue"December 11-13, 2008 Cape Town, South Africa
Call for proposal: Inquiries, abstracts and proposal for papers
should be addressed to Nigel Love (nigel.love@uct.ac.za) and Umberto Ansaldo
(uansaldo@gmail.com).
Closing date for abstracts: 31 Jul 2008
July 2008
New URL: The NNEST Caucus website moved from
http://nnest.moussu.net to http://nnest.asu.edu.
June 2008
The TESOL Board of Directors has approved the creation on the
NNEST Interest Section. Congratulations to all!
April 2008
The 42nd
TESOL Annual Convention and Exhibit will happen on April 2 to 4, in New
York,
David Wetzel on 18 Mar 10For a web-based learning to be truly effective it must be interactive. This means that it is not just a reformatted canned lesson of printed worksheets placed on the web. The web-based activity is inquiry-based and incorporates the full features available on the web - interactivity between computer and student. The learning activity must engage student critical thinking skills by using the scientific inquiry process.
