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| Leadership Updates |
| FROM THE EDITORS |
| Jana Moore, Temple University, Japan & Ben White, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, USA |
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| FROM THE CHAIR |
| Hayriye Kayi-Aydar, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA |
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| FROM THE CHAIR-ELECT |
| Nihat Polat, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA |
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| Articles |
| I NEVER METAPHOR I DIDN'T LIKE |
| Robert B. Kaplan, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA |
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Dr. Kaplan’s speech commemorating 40 years of ALIS focuses on the importance of metaphor in language and why it is essential for language teachers to be familiar with metaphor. Read More |
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| INTERCULTURAL AWARENESS FOR YOUNG LEARNERS |
| Adrian Holliday, Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, England |
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In her TESOL presentation Adrian Holliday argued that young learners’
best resource for engaging with new cultural material is the cultural
experience that they already have, drawn from their own background.
Teachers need to help them find this and make the connection. A fuller
discussion of this approach can be found in Holliday (2013, 2014b). Read More |
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| PRACTICAL WAYS TO BUILD INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCE IN YOUNG LEARNERS |
| Joe McVeigh, Independent Consultant, Middlebury, Vermont, USA |
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Well-informed teachers like to be familiar with the research that informs their teaching, but it’s also helpful to have some practical ways to work with students. This article offers some ideas that teachers of young learners can use to work directly with students to help them build intercultural competence. Read More |
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| DIGITAL STORIES AS INTERCULTURAL TEXTS: THE AFRICAN STORYBOOK PROJECT AND YOUNG LEARNERS |
| Espen Stranger-Johannessen & Bonny Norton, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada |
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The relationship between storytelling and intercultural
identity is complex and intriguing. The African Storybook
Project provides a window on both identity and culture in
African communities in the context of an innovative digital storytelling
project for young learners. Read More |
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| WHY GESTURE! |
| Gale Stam, National Louis University, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
Contrary to the view that co-speech or spontaneous gestures—gesticulations, the movement of the hands that accompany speech—are ancillary to language, this article argues that gestures are an integral part of language and should not be ignored in second language acquisition research and English language teaching.
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| WHAT IS INTERACTIONAL COMPETENCE? |
| Richard F. Young, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA |
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Interactional competence is a popular term these
days, maybe because it combines two ideas that teachers and applied
linguists describe in detail: interaction and competence. But what is
interactional competence? In this article Richard Young sketches where
the idea came from, how it is defined today, and how to teach it. Read More |
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| ABOUT THIS COMMUNITY |
| WHO'S WHO FOR 2014 |
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| ALIS Forum Seeks Grad Student Corner Submissions |
| The ALIS Forum is seeking submissions to publish in
the Grad Student Corner. If you are a graduate student or involved with
graduate students, this is an excellent opportunity to publish your
research. Papers must be no more than 1500 words in length. Contact Ben
or Jana for more details. |
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| ALIS Forum Seeks New Co-Editor |
| Are you interested in getting involved with the Applied Linguistics
Interest Section? Then we have an opportunity for you! The ALIS Forum is in need of a new co-editor. Requirements
include being responsible for bi-annual publications, working with
authors, editing papers, and attending the TESOL convention. If
interested, please contact our current chair, Hayriye. |
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