February 2020 Announcements
TESOL faculty and students will be presenting at the ITBE 45th Annual Convention, Friday, Feb. 28 and Saturday, Feb. 29, at the Sheraton Lisle Naperville Hotel.
Friday, Feb. 28
Andrew Wykretowicz: 鈥淓ffective methods in managing large adult ESL classes鈥
Regina Ramos and Jacqueline "Jackie" Santiago-Vicente: 鈥淭he Edu-tainment Revolution: A New Perspective on Language Teaching鈥
Erika Husby and Silvia Chavez: "English as Mutual Aid: Anticapitalist Curriculum Writing"
Saturday, Feb. 29
Gary Brichetto: 鈥淰ocal Technique for Pronunciation and Accent Reduction鈥
Ulugbek Nurmukhamedov and Randall Sadler (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): 鈥淣ew Ways in Teaching with Games鈥
Julie Kalsow: 鈥淓xploring the Rise of Teacher Education in Integrating Technology: A Perspective Abroad鈥
Jacqueline Rasmussen and Ulugbek Nurmukhamedov: 鈥淪econd/Foreign Language Teachers鈥 Perceptions and Implementations of Podcasts鈥
Faculty Awards
Dr. Senyung Lee was awarded the 2020 Jacqueline Ross TOEFL Dissertation Award for her doctoral dissertation "Examining the underlying constructs of L2 lexical collocation knowledge."
Alumni speaking about NEIU TESL
From Peter Swayze [pjacobswayze@yahoo.com]
Teddy,
I don't think I ever properly thanked you and Jeanine and William for our excellent instruction. NEIU TESL is a hidden gem, and I am a much better teacher for it. I hope all is well.
-Peter
