Leadership Team

Statement of Purpose: The Speech, Pronunciation, and Listening Interest Section (SPLIS) focuses on all aspects of oral/aural skills in English language teaching. We work to increase educators’ awareness of the importance of oral/aural skills for English learners of all ages, from early childhood through adulthood. We help educators recognize the role of spoken English in second language development, social well-being, and academic success. We support educators in all settings to help learners improve their pronunciation and listening skills. We encourage research and scholarship, disseminate information, develop teaching materials, and advance teaching tools and methods.

Leadership Team

Meet the Members:

Reza Dalman (PhD Northern Arizona University) is an Assistant Professor of TESOL/Linguistics in the English Department at Winona State University. Reza’s research focuses on second language (L2) speech and intelligibility, speech perception and production, and oral assessment and testing. He has published the findings of his research in various TESOL-and Second Language Acquisition-related journals, including TESOL Quarterly, Language Teaching Research, International Journal of Listening, Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, Advances in Language and Literary Studies, and Asia TEFL, inter alia. Reza is currently working on two grant research projects investigating young learners’ English proficiency gains in EFL contexts.

Jacqueline Dianga is a dedicated English language educator at a government secondary school in Kenya. She is passionate about lifelong learning, teacher professional development, and multilingual pedagogies. She actively explores innovative strategies to enhance inclusive and effective language education. Jacqueline holdsMEd in Educational Leadership and Management from Aga Khan University.

Meghan Moran Wilson is the Interim Director of the University Writing Program at Northern Arizona University. She received a doctorate in Applied Linguistics in 2016 from NAU. Her research interests revolve around L2 English speech, intelligibility, and accent perception and discrimination.

Agata Guskaroska holds a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics and Technology from Iowa State University (ISU). She has taught EFL/ESL, composition, and online courses, including a MOOC on technology in language teaching. She is the author of the books Teaching Pronunciation with Confidence and Oral Communication for Non-native Speakers of English. Currently, Agata is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at ISU, working on the development and institutional implementation of a new English Language Proficiency Advisory Program. Her research focuses on computer-assisted language learning, pronunciation teaching, and technology acceptance.

Raju Dhuli, a PhD scholar in English Language Teaching at IIT Bhubaneswar, holds an MA in English from Central University of Andhra Pradesh, excelling in UGC NET in Linguistics in 2019. His research initiated in 2021, targets improving speaking skills among rural secondary school students. His research interests include vocabulary development, speaking skills, second language acquisition, and language assessment and teacher education. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8909-5103

Tamara Jones holds a PhD in Education from the University of Sheffield in the UK. Shehas taught in Russia, Korea, England, Belgium and is currently the Special Projects Coordinator with the English Language Center at Howard Community College in Columbia, MD, USA.

Joshua Gordon is an Associate Professor of TESOL and Applied Linguistics at the University of Northern Iowa. He received his Ph.D. in Second Language Studies from Indiana University, Bloomington. He has taught ESL, EFL, and Spanish as a foreign language. He has trained pre-service and in-service teachers in the United States and in Costa Rica. His research interests include second-language pronunciation teaching and learning, second-language teacher cognition, and nonnative-speaking teachers of English. His research has been published in peer-reviewed journals and different edited volumes. He was the 2022-2023 chair of the Speech, Pronunciation, and Listening Interest Section of TESOL International. He is the Reviews Editor for the Journal of Second Language Pronunciation.

Kate Reynolds is a Professor of TESOL/Literacy at Central Washington University. She has taught educators in the US and abroad at universities and public-school districts and ESL/EFL in elementary, middle schools and universities various in contexts as well. Dr. Reynolds’ publications include Introduction to TESOL: Becoming a Language Teaching Professional and Research Methods in Language Teaching and Learning: A Practical Guide. She has contributed her expertise in presentations regularly at TESOL International Association, American Association of Applied Linguistics, National Association of Bilingual Education (NABE), and TESOL affiliates. In 2022, she was inducted onto the TESOL International Association’s Board of Directors and will serve until 2025.