NNLEI-IG

Dear NNLEI-IG colleagues,

Before I move on to introduce our new leaders, I would like to give my heartfelt thanks to Cassia De Abreu and Terry Doyle for their ongoing support for and participation in the IG, and Clarissa C. S. Ryan, our IG webmaster, for her wonderful work in the past year. Clarissa will continue to serve as our webmaster for 2011-2012. At the NNLEI-IG business meeting in Long Beach, I shared with members my plan for the coming year. I am very happy to report that Hee-jin Kim volunteered to be our coordinator-elect 2011~2012; Stefan Frazier, the listserv moderator; Chigusa Katoku and Terry Doyle, our Northern Regional Representatives; and Lia Kamhi-Stein, our Southern Regional Representative. I’d like to take this opportunity to welcome them and I look forward to working with this great team!

In below are short introductions to our new additions to the leadership team:

Coordinator-elect 2011-2012:
Hee-Jin Kim is currently teaching at American Language and Culture Institute (ALCI) in California State University, San Marcos. She was born in Seoul, Korea and has also lived in Austin, Texas where she was an ESL student for 6 years. She moved back to Korea where she learned English as an ESL student. She completed her MA in TESOL at California State University, Los Angeles. Because of her personal experience both as a ESL and EFL learner, she understands what her students have to go through to learn English. During her MA program, she also became particularly interested in NNEST identity. She believes that empowering NNESTs is as important as having great activities for the classroom.

Listserv Moderator 2011-2012:
Stefan Frazier is assistant professor in the Department of Linguistics & Language Development at San Jose State University, where he also serves as coordinator of the M.A. TESOL and undergraduate basic writing programs. His interests include pedagogical grammar, writing pedagogy, non-native-English-speaking teacher issues, corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, conversation analysis, classroom interaction, and gesture and talk.

Northern Regional Representatives:
Chigusa Katoku is academic coordinator for the Institute for International Studies, an intensive English program, at Mission College, where she also has been teaching ESL since 2001. She has a master’s degree in TESOL and TFL certificate in Japanese from the Monterey Institute of International Studies. Her interests include computer-assisted language learning, non-native-English-speaking teacher issues, curriculum development, integrating extracurricular activities into IEP, and language administration.

Terry Doyle has been an ESL teacher for the past 26 years at City College of San Francisco. His educational preparation includes an MA in TESL at San Francisco State University and an Ed.D. in Multicultural and International Education at the University of San Francisco. His research and teaching interests are critical linguistics, issues related to justice in the field, and using drama in teaching ESL. He has been a member of TESOL’s NNEST and CATESOL’s NNLEI for about 6 years.

Southern Regional Representatives:
Lia D. Kamhi-Stein (Ph.D. in Language, Literacy, and Learning, USC, 1995) is Professor in the M.A. in TESOL Program housed in the Charter College of Education at California State University, Los Angeles (CSLA). She is originally from Argentina, where she worked as a certified public translator and EFL teacher and program administrator with the Instituto Cultural Argentino Norteamericano (ICANA).

Dr. Kamhi-Stein is editor of Learning and Teaching from Experience: Perspectives on Nonnative English-speaking Professionals (2004), co-editor of Developing a New Course for Adult Learners (2006), and author of a forthcoming book titled Language Teacher Identity: Implications for Teaching Second Language Learners (University of Michigan Press). She has published in TESOL Quarterly, TESOL Journal, The Journal of Adult and Adolescent Literacy, as well as other peer-edited journals, and edited books.