Letters from Community Event Organizers and myTESOL Manager
Jen Brondell, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, USA
Jamie-Erin Parry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
Hello to all from your Community Events Organizers!
We worked hard this summer to put together a series of webinars for the fall semester, and we recently held our first session with DJ Kaiser. He shared practical tips for pronunciation practice and discussed his new book, Practical Pronunciation.
In October, we’ll hear from Dr. Jimin Khang about understanding nonnative speech and speech training. Then, in November, in collaboration with the Intercultural Communication Interest Section, we’ll welcome Dr. Marcella Capraprio for a conversation about recent research and English as a Lingua Franca-informed perspectives on pragmatic competence.
We are also looking for more webinar topics and presenters for Spring 2027. If you have ideas or leads, please send them our way!
Jen Brondell
Clemson University
Clemson, South Carolina
Jamie-Erin Parry
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut
Qiusi Zhang, Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, USA
Dear colleagues,
I hope your new semester is off to a great start! My name is Qiusi Zhang, and I’m excited to serve as the MyTESOL Manager for the new academic year. In this role, I’ll be managing the MyTESOL online platform, a space where we can share resources, exchange ideas, and discuss topics of interest to our community. I look forward to working with all of you to make MyTESOL an engaging and lively space for our members!
I have also been working with Kyle Swanson, our Chair, to organize a contribution schedule for the upcoming semester. We warmly invite you to contribute to MyTESOL by creating a Homepage post, a Discussion post, or both. If you’re interested, please sign up for a week or month using the sign-up link or QR code below.
Sign Up for MyTESOL Homepage & Discussion Posts
Thank you in advance for your contributions and support! Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions, suggestions, or ideas for MyTESOL. I look forward to working with you all and building an active and engaging MyTESOL community together!
All the best,
Qiusi Zhang
MyTESOL Manager