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page last updated: September 15, 2007
NNEST Bibliography List (Please keep sending entries that you have written or read!)
Call for the 2008 Graduate Student Forum. Check the site for deadlines.
Read in the International Herald Tribune the growth and evolution of English as a second or foreign language where Jun Liu, past NNEST Caucus chair, and the first NNEST to be president of TESOL (2006-2007), is mentioned as TESOL's first NNEST president.
In this article,the reporter explains how customer service agents in India improved their pronunciation (ComputerWorld, 2006).
Read this article to understand why teaching English in Japan is getting tougher and more competitive (Japan Times, 2006).
Find out here how nonnative English speakers are changing the way people communicate, as they outnumber native speakers 3 to 1 (Newsweek International, 2005).
New from John Hopkins University (.pdf): Effective reading programs for English language learners report.
United Nations Secretary-General Adresses Immigration, Belgium, January 29, 2004.
Read the story of Esther Park and how she teaches students who like her, immigrated to the US and need to learn English (Washington Post, 2004).
American culture? Click here to see what our members use to teach "it."
Handout: Empowering Nonnative English-speaking MATESOL Graduates in Career Development, by Lucie Moussu, Silvia Pessoa, Alejandra Reyes-Cejudo, and Fabiana Sacchi (TESOL 2002) (.doc format).
Handout for the job search workshop organized by Aya Matsuda (TESOL 2002) (.doc format)
Letter published by the International Examiner, written by Juan Martinez, one of our Caucus members, in response to a letter questioning the skills of nonnative English-speaking professionals (.doc format)
Interesting article about teachers' appearances and student evaluations.
Accents Have Advantages: article about the mutual intelligibility of nonnative speakers.
TESOL Quarterly and Non-native Speaker-Writers: An Interview with Sandra McKay Asian Journal of English Language Teaching Vol. 9, 1999, pp. 99-103.
Visit our Caucus Forum section to read interviews about other NNEST members. Also, feel free to post comments and ideas about teaching ESL/EFL, work or school.
Read the Position Statement Against Discrimination of Nonnative Speakers in the Field of TESOL here.
Find or advertise a TESOL job with JobFinder.
TESOL's Awards and Grants website: here!
TESOL Conferences and Events here!
TESOL International Research Foundation Call for Research Proposals.
Official Position Statements approved by the TESOL Board of Directors on a broad range of issues related to the field of teaching English as an additional language.
Submit an Item for TESOL Connection E-Newsletter (TESOL in Focus, The First Click, TESOL Tips, and others).
Write for Essential Teacher, a magazine that "welcomes submissions that reflect you and your professional lives."
Around the world calendar of TESOL-related events.
Where in the TESOL community do you work? What do you do there? What makes your?work as an English language educator?worthwhile, unique, and interesting? The association invites its members to share their stories. E-mail stories (100-500 words) and an image (of you or related to your work) ?to tesolstories@tesol.org. Read inspiring stories here.
Nonnative Language Educators' Issues Interest Group, California TESOL.
U.S. Census Report: Language Use and English-Speaking Ability: 2000.
Open Doors on the Web provides useful statistics on international students and scholars in the US.
A TESOL Statement on Non-native Speakers of English and Hiring Practices passed in October 1991; published in TESOL Matters Aug/Sept 1992 Issue (pdf format).