ITAIS Newsletter, March 2025
Letter From the Chair
Sarah Emory, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Letter from the Chair-Elect
Morag C. Burke, PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Letter from the Editors
Elka Kristó Nagy, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Ekaterina Arshavskaya, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, USA
Taiwan Is Better Than Your Corner of the World
Dr. Roger W. Anderson, Monterey, California, USA
I am not Taiwanese nor Taiwanese-American. And never have I heard a Taiwanese person say something so immodest. Yet ITA Educators, like all language educators, must be reminded to struggle against our innate, ethnocentric biases.
Fall 2024 Working Groups
Eva Miszoglad, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), Illinois, USA
Mike O’Neill, Lehigh University, Pennsylvania, USA
This short article overviews the ITAIS events during the fall of 2024.
We Need You! Calling For Contributions to An Exciting New Initiative: Sarita
Cynthia DeRoma, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
Sarah Emory, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
We describe an initiative to create a new community-sourced Open Educational Resource (OER): SARITA (Shared-access Resources for ITAs). Relying on contributions from practitioners working with academic populations, mainly graduate students from all linguistic backgrounds with or without teaching roles, SARITA will be an open-access platform for activities and resources to use in a variety of contexts like classes, consultations, assessments, or partner practice.
Empowering International Teaching Assistants: Consciousness-Raising Activities in English-Language Pragmatics Instruction
Eric L. Moore, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA
The article examines the instruction of English language pragmatics with a focus on developing the skills of International Teaching Assistants.