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Chair 2009-2010
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Ana Wu (http://fog.ccsf.edu/awu) is currently teaching ESL at City College of San Francisco. Born and raised in Brazil, she discovered her love for education after teaching EFL in Japan and studying in China. Her current research interests are incorporating technology in the classroom and developing learning strategies for generation 1.5 writers. She holds a MA in TESOL and a Certificate in Teaching Composition from San Francisco State University, and a B.Sc. in Chemistry from the Universidade de Sao Paulo in Brazil. |
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Chair-elect 2009-2010
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Aiden Yeh is a Phd student at the University of Birmingham in England. She holds a master’s in English language teaching management from Surrey University. She has published journal articles and book chapters on the following topics: NNESTs' Teacher Professional Development using online technology, blended learning, and web 2.0 tools in teaching and learning EFL. She serves as the TESOL NNEST-IS Chair-elect, and she is a member of the Electronic Village Online Coordinating Team and CALL-IS Steering Committee. She teaches in Taiwan.
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Newsletter Editor
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Kyung-Hee Bae holds an MA in Applied English Linguistics from the University of Houston. As the Assistant Director at the University of Houston Writing Center, she is deeply involved in developing writing curriculum for students in various disciplines across campus. Courses she has taught include the non-native speakers' equivalent of freshman composition I and II, Technical Communications course for engineering majors, and Graduate Writing Workshop for Nonnative English speaking Students in the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. Recently, she has co-authored a chapter entitled “Individualizing Pedagogy: Dealing with Diverse Needs and Goals in Freshman Comp for Non-native Speakers” in the upcoming book, Generation 1.5 in College Composition: Teaching Academic Writing to U.S.-Educated Learners of ESL. |
Web Manager
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Li-Fen Lin is a Ph. D. candidate in the Linguistics Department at the University of California, Davis. Her research interests include second language learning and teaching, TESOL education, and discourse analysis. She is currently working on her dissertation research on NNES and NES MATESOL students’ teacher identity construction in California. Before joining the Ph. D. program at UCD, Li-Fen taught Linguistics and English and composition at National Central University in Taiwan. She has presented her research on classroom discourse analysis and ESL teacher identity construction at conferences such as AAAL, International Systemic Functional Congress, CATESOL, and TESOL conventions. For any question or problem regarding this web site, please send a message to the web manager |
Listserv Manager
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Maribel Fernandez has been an EFL teacher in Montevideo; Uruguay for 25 years. She holds an M. Ed TESOL degree, awarded by the University of Edinburgh, UK. She is a member of the Association of Dyslexia of Uruguay, (Affiliate of the International Reading Association) and a member of URUTESOL (Uruguayan TESOL’s affiliate). She was a board member of URUTESOL for four years, (2005-2006: member at large; 2007-2008: first Vice-president).She is currently Director of Studies at Summit Institute, ESP teacher at Instituto Anglo de Montevideo and EFL teacher at Colegio Regina Martyrum (Secondary School).She is interested in NNEST issues, interdisciplinary work and diversity. She has presented in several English seminars and in General Education congresses (Jornadas Trasandinas del Aprendizaje, 2008). |
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Ryuko Kubota is a professor in the Department of Language and Literacy Education in the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia. She is interested in critical approaches to culture and language in second language education with a focus on intersection among race, class, gender, nonnativeness, and other social categories. |
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Aya Matsuda is Assistant Professor of Language & Literacy and Applied Linguistics at Arizona State University . She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in applied linguistics, including World Englishes, sociolinguistics, and second language acquisition. Before joining ASU in 2007, she taught linguistics and applied linguistics courses at the University of New Hampshire . Her research interests include the use of English as an international language, linguistic and pedagogical implications of the global spread of English, integration of a World Englishes perspective into the US education, and the role of Japanese heritage school for Japanese families in the US . Her work focusing on these issues have appeared in various books and journals including English Today, JALT Journal, TESOL Quarterly, and World Englishes, and she is a regular presenter at such conferences as International Association for World Englishes Conference and TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages). Professor Matsuda is originally from Japan , speaks English and Japanese fluently, and is raising her child bilingually. |
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Lisya Seloni is an Assistant Professor in the Composition and TESOL graduate program at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, where she teaches courses on research writing, literacy and technology, and TESOL. She received her Ph.D. from the Ohio State University. She has taught English and teacher education courses in various countries such as Turkey, South Korea and United States. Her research interests include second language writing, intercultural rhetoric, discourse analysis, ethnography, and identity issues in the NNEST discourse. |
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Rashi Jain is a PhD student in the Second Language Education and Culture program at the University of Maryland, College Park. An international student from multicultural and multilingual India, Rashi has experienced and explored the role that culture plays in language learning and teaching. In India, Rashi worked as an assistant editor at Encyclopedia Britannica India Ltd. before deciding to return to full-time academics. Rashi believes that teaching and learning can go hand-in-hand with research, and is currently involved in exploring the complex and rich field of practitioner research. She has co-authored chapters on teacher identity and pedagogy, World Englishes, and NNEST issues in a forthcoming volume on Non-Native English speakers in TESOL. When not immersed in teaching and graduate studies, Rashi likes to dabble in photography and pottery-making. |
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Historian
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George Braine (Ph.D., Texas) is an associate professor of English at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has also taught in Sri Lanka, Oman, and the United States. His publications include Non-Native Educators in English Language Teaching (1999) and Teaching English to the World (2005). He is a founding editor of Texas Papers in Foreign Language Education and coeditor of the Asian Journal of English Language Teaching. He was the first Chair of the NNEST Caucus. George was born and raised in Sri Lanka. His first language is Sinhala. |
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Interviewer
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Ana Wu (http://fog.ccsf.edu/awu) is currently teaching ESL at City College of San Francisco. Born and raised in Brazil, she discovered her love for education after teaching EFL in Japan and studying in China. Her current research interests are incorporating technology in the classroom and developing learning strategies for generation 1.5 writers. She holds a MA in TESOL and a Certificate in Teaching Composition from San Francisco State University, and a B.Sc. in Chemistry from the Universidade de Sao Paulo in Brazil. Read the interviews at http://nnest.asu.edu/blog/ |
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| Chair | The second year of the two-year Chair-Elect/Chair term. The Chair provides leadership by overseeing all IS activities, including communicating with the Board Liaison and Staff Liaison and submitting an annual NNEST Report to the Board. The Chair also leads the Nonnative English Speakers in TESOL (NNEST) Listserv discussion, writes a Letter from the Chair for the two issues of NNEST Newsletter. At the annual TESOL Convention, the Chair organizes a thematic colloquium, leads an Energy Break and invites IS members to lead one or more discussion sessions. Finally, the Chair selects the annual recipiant for the ECU Award for outstanding paper on NNEST issues, recruits new IS members, and mentors potential IS leaders. |
| Chair-elect | The first year of the two-year Chair-Elect/Chair term. (The person who is elected to be the chair-elect becomes the chair the following year.) The Chair-Elect provides leadership by organizing the NNEST IS booth at the annual TESOL Convention and assisting the IS Chair with the Nonnative English Speakers in TESOL (NNEST) Listserv discussion. The Chair-Elect also participates in other leadership activities, including assisting in the organization of a thematic colloquium and taking minutes at the IS Leaders Meeting at the annual TESOL Convention. Finally, the Chair-Elect recruits new IS members and mentors potential IS leaders.
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Two-year term. May be renewed for one year with the agreement of the Chair and Chair-Elect. The Newsletter Editor provides leadership by publishing two issues of the NNEST Newsletter per year and publicizing the work of the IS. The Newsletter Editor also provides leadership by participating in the IS Business Meeting, the Editors Workshop, and the IS Leadership Meeting at the annual TESOL Convention. |
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| Editorial Volunteer | The Editorial Volunteer works collaboratively with the Editor publicizing the work of the IS and assisting the Editor in the submission review process on a regular basis. The Editor and the Assistant Editor closely communicate about any issues related to the Newsletter. |
| Webmanager | Two to three-year term, alone or with an Assistant Webmanager. The Webmanager provides leadership by keeping the IS website up to date with the latest IS and TESOL developments, conferences, interesting links, and the reference list. The Webmanager also provides leadership by participating in the IS Business Meeting, the Webmanager Workshop, and the IS Leadership Meeting at the annual TESOL Convention. |
| Listserv manager | The Listserv manager will post messages as requested by NNEST IS leaders, collect and recover listserv discussion threads when requested by NNEST IS members, and help members who have difficulty joining the listserv learn what they need to do to get logged on. |
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