In This Issue

Letter from the Dean

New Staff

MIIS ELF’s

Running a Conference—AAAL

Alumni Spotlights

Online Teacher Training in South Asia

5th Annual FLEDS

English USA in Monterey

Spring 2016

Discourse &

Repartée

Graduate School of Translation, Interpretation, and Language Education

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Letter from the Dean

Dear Alumni,

As you'll see in this year's newsletter, Patricia Szasz

(MATESOL ‘06, LPA), Assistant Dean for Language and

Professional Programs, has been particularly busy

welcoming new staff and exploring new online teaching

opportunities. We're excited about increased possibilities

for us to do professional training online and hope that this

coming year brings us some more grant opportunities to do

some. The TESOL/TFL faculty remain active with all of

their teaching and professional activities and you can read

what Kathi Bailey and her team have been up to as they

prepare for this year's American Association for Applied

Linguistics (AAAL) Conference, to be held in Orlando, right

after the TESOL Convention. We'll hope to catch up with

those of you who are attending these conferences at our alumni events (look for emails/

Facebook postings/stop by our booth at TESOL). Our students are also busy planning

this year's 5th (time flies!) Foreign Language Education Symposium, to be held in April.

We continue to bring in fantastic guest lecturers as part of the Leo van Lier Lecture

Series and if you'd like to contribute in Leo's name to continuing to make this

possible, please do so, as we find this is wonderful way to keep his brilliance sparkling

throughout the program.

Otherwise, all continues to go well! The faculty are active, the students are inspiring, and

we have great support for our activities. We hope all is well with you and look forward to

hearing from you and/or seeing you as we travel!

Best wishes,

Renee

Dr. Renee Jourdenais, Dean, Graduate School of Translation, Interpretation, and

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Rogers Walker

Associate Director of IESL Programs

Rachel Vidmar

Muradyan

Marketing & Admissions Manager

New Associate Director of IESL Programs

Rogers has been Associate Director of the Intensive English as a Second

Language (IESL) program here since June of 2015. He particularly likes the

program at the Institute because it’s smaller and therefore more intimate

with its students, which creates a much better learning environment. “There

is also a more diverse student population, representing a lot of different cul-

tures in one classroom,” says Rogers. Before coming to Monterey, he previ-

ously taught at a private ESL school in North Carolina. He earned his gradu-

ate degree in Applied Linguistics at Columbia University, and received his

undergraduate at George Washington University.

One of the newest undertakings that Rogers is helping to pioneer, is a se-

ries of online instructional videos for English language learners. Rogers has

taken advantage of the Digital Learning Commons to edit and produce a se-

ries of videos to be put online that will help supplement any ESL curriculum

and help promote the school as a whole. He has always been interested in

photography and multimedia so this was a natural step to take for him in

increasing the IESL program’s online presence. Rogers adds, “It’s great to

have staff and students that are so enthusiastic with this project, the DLC

and the teachers have been very helpful.” Interested in seeing what the vide-

os are like? Check out their YouTube channel: Middlebury English. Stay

tuned for new videos coming soon!

New Marketing and Admissions Manager

Alisyn Gruener (MA IEM ’13) transitioned out of her role as Enrollment

Marketing Manager and now works as Assistant Director of Global Admis-

sions for the Institute. While we were sad to see her leave our team, we are

pleased that she has taken on this expanded role. And luckily, she’s just

across the street from us! In July 2015, we hired recent graduate Rachel

Vidmar Muradyan (MA IEM ’15) as our new Marketing & Admissions Man-

ager. Once again, we knew Rachel was the perfect “MIIS” fit, having spent

some of her childhood living in Central Asia, and teaching in Zhengchou,

China after graduating from the University of California, Davis. As you can

imagine, her Russian and Mandarin skills are certainly an asset for us as she

works to build brand awareness and aid prospective students through the

applications process for our language programs.

Welcome Rogers and Rachel!

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At pre-

Departure

orientation in

Washington

DC in August

2015.

Not pictured:

Patrick

Gaebler who

is renewing

his fellowship

in Mexico!

MIIS English Language Fellows

During the 2015-2016 school year, 5 MA TESOL alumni were selected for placement around the world through the English Language Fellows (ELF) program, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State.

Here’s what they’ve been doing:

Alicia Brill (’13) teaches ESP Engineering and in the

English department at Universitas Andalas in Padang,

West Sumatra, Indonesia. During the first week of her

fellowship, Alicia led a workshop on using Activate

games in the classroom for the 62nd annual Teaching

English as a Foreign Language in Indonesia (TEFLIN)

conference in Bali. Additional projects include teacher

training in Professional Development for Engineers,

program planning and outreach in the American

Corner, leading an English Club for Engineers,

curriculum and materials design, and community

outreach.

Tylie Cramer (‘15) isn’t yet on site. However, that

doesn’t mean she isn’t incredibly excited to have met

her fellow MIIS alums at the Washington DC ELF

training week in August and to be heading out to

Córdoba, Argentina in March 2016. She will be working

in a Binational Center in this historic university town,

but in the meantime she’s working in a bilingual

primary school in Montevideo, Uruguay - practicing her

classroom management and differentiation skills with

thirty spirited 5th grade students.

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Patrick Gaebler (‘12) is in his second year as an ELF at the Universidad

Tecnológica El Retoño (UTR) in Aguascalientes, Mexico. During his first year he

designed and implemented a project called Beyond Limits Career Fair, during

which freshmen students researched and presented various points, including the

importance of English, regarding future potential careers.

He also taught an advanced English course focused on academic rather than

general English. In addition, he planned an English Language Teachers

professional development event with the English language instructors at UTR.

Finally, he spent the later of half of his Fellowship researching and designing a

Self Access Center for UTR.

Currently, Patrick is working with 14 different classes of freshman students in a

project called UTR ABC (Autonomy Boot Camp). During the first half of the term,

the students will research the benefits of becoming multilingual and the

importance of English as a global language. Then they will write a letter to their

“future English speaking selves” describing a their goals and ambitions for

learning English. In the second half of the term, the students will develop a self-

learning strategy and analyze the effects it has on their language. They will then

present the results at and end-of-term fair called Beyond Limits.

Patrick hopes to develop a general English and ESP course for the faculty and

staff next term. Both teachers and administrators alike continue to ask him for

language instruction and help with the their pedagogy. He also plans to organize

another professional development event, but this time inviting teachers from

other local universities.

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Lisa Weiss (‘15) returns to Ukraine, where she had been a Peace Corps Volunteer.

It was during her service that she discovered her love for English teaching and

decided to make it her career. She teaches practical English at Poltava National

Pedagogical University for students who are studying to be middle and high school

teachers. She also presents a weekly cultural program that is open to all students.

She works with the Window on America Center at the public library to present film

series and teacher trainings. She will be working with other universities in the city

-- including some students relocated from war zones in the eastern part of the

country -- to support English teaching and learning. She will assist with the

ACCESS Microscholarship program which provides English language classes to

low-income students ages 13-20.

Maggie Steingraeber (‘12) is based in

Lima, Peru through the Fulbright

Commission. Her main

responsibilities include hosting and

coordinating a regional webinar

series, and working with teachers

and academic institutions

throughout the country to help Peru

reach its bilingual initiative goal by the year 2021. She works with high-

performing high schools (colegios de alto rendimiento) and teacher training

colleges in key regions to develop curriculum and train teachers.

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MIIS’s Kathi Bai-

ley and Tim Mar-

quette took on the

role of spearhead-

ing the 2016 AAAL

conference—this

is Kathi’s first

year as the First

Vice President of

AAAL

by Tim Marquette

Running a Conference?

In January of 2015, Dr. Kathi Bailey, TESOL

Professor, asked me to be her assistant in

running the 2016 conference for the American

Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL).

My mind filled with thoughts such as, “Wow! What a great

opportunity!”, “Really? Me?”, and “I’m not sure I have the

skills to do this.” I was eager to jump at the proposition

and say “Yes!”, but I also wasn’t sure how this would all fit

in with my academic responsibilities here at MIIS. In

short, I accepted the position and Kathi and I have been on

an exciting and wild ride ever since. What follows is a brief

account of the past 14 months and some of the experiences

that we have shared along the way.

Let’s back up to before this process began. Why are we

running the 2016 AAAL Conference? Kathi accepted a

nomination to the AAAL presidential line and was named

Second Vice President at the March, 2014 conference held

in Portland, Oregon. The year spent as the Second VP is

what Kathi considers to be the “training wheels year”. It

was an important time to begin understanding the

organizational culture, as well as the policies and operating

procedures of AAAL, in addition to attending meetings

with the Executive Committee, which sets the initiatives of

the association as a whole. At the 2015 conference in

Toronto, Canada, Kathi became the First Vice President.

At this point the real fun begins! For the First VP, the

training wheels are quickly cast aside and the major

responsibility is to take on the role of the Conference

Chair.

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Kathi and I spent the few months leading up

to the 2015 conference laying the foundation

for the 2016 conference: securing plenary

speakers and invited colloquia organizers,

and preparing publicity for these events to be

inserted into the 2015 conference booklet

and posted on the AAAL website. Our hope

was to conjure interest and excitement with

conference-goers for the following year’s

conference. Additionally, we began reaching

out to respected academians in the field of

applied linguistics to serve as Strand

Coordinators (SCs). Amongst the SCs were

MIIS faculty members Netta Avineri, Heekyeong Lee, Jason Martel, and the Dean of

GSTILE, Renee Jourdenais, as well as TESOL/TFL graduate, Carolin Fuchs. All of these

SCs would be an invaluable part of the proposal submission and review process because

they each employ and manage a team of volunteer reviewers to evaluate submissions as

potential academic presentations on the 2016 conference.

The 2015 conference in Toronto was an exciting time for me for a myriad of reasons. To

start, it was my first time attending a major academic conference. It was exciting to

experience the intellectual electricity as well as being face-to-face with key players in the

field (whose works I spent the year reading and studying). Second, it was an opportunity

to gain insight into the conference culture, atmosphere, logistics, and operations. I have a

professional background in theatre and running a conference is like putting on a show!

Kathi reminded me that before a show can open, there must be a dress rehearsal. For us,

the 2015 conference was our “dress rehearsal” -- our chance to go through all the motions

before our big debut (albeit one year later!). More realistically, however, is that the 2015

conference was like witnessing, shadowing, and interviewing all of the people who go into

putting on the show: the playwright, the director, the producer, the actors, the stage

manager, and the audience members. At this point the training wheels were not only cast

aside, but a 900-horsepower engine had been affixed to our old-fashioned bike, and we

suddenly found ourselves in the middle of the Indianapolis 500, AAAL-style! We were

writing our own play, directing, producing, and managing our own show, actors, audience

members, and a variety of other key stakeholders.

An “average” day for Kathi and Tim

planning for AAAL

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From April of 2015 until the present the tasks have been abundant -- snowballing, in fact --

and I have learned so much. We have developed a call for proposals and managed a review

process utilizing the expertise of 18 strand coordinators and over 300 reviewers to

adjudicate over 1,700 proposal submissions. MIIS professors, John Hedgcock and Thor

Sawin, along with MIIS alum Dave Chiesa (currently a PhD candidate at Georgia State)

have come on board as members of the Conference Planning Committee to aid in this

process. Together we have also sought to bring transparency to the process, as well as to

the organizational and conference culture, by preparing an extensive FAQ initiative for the

AAAL website. We have scheduled just over 1,100 presentations (paper presentations,

invited and refereed colloquia, poster presentations, and roundtable discussions in

addition to pre-conference workshops dedicated to research methods, numerous

professional opportunities sessions, publishing workshops, graduate student events,

plenary speakers, and various other meetings and social events). Of those presenters,

MIIS faculty members Lynn Goldstein and Netta Avineri will both be leading invited

colloquia and Jason Martel will serve on a panel

discussion dedicated to writing effective

proposals for the AAAL conference. Maricel

Santos, a graduate of the TESOL MA Program,

has organized an invited colloquium. Claudia

Angelelli, another alumna of MIIS, will be

presenting as one of the five invited plenary

speakers. Various other faculty, former faculty,

and alumni will also be presenting in the

academic sessions.

Kathi and I couldn’t be more excited about the 2016 conference coming up this April 8-

12 in Orlando, Florida. We are very proud of the work of our conference planning team

and the numerous other people who have helped this conference come to life. We look

forward to dragging our “Huffy” off of the raceway and crossing the finish line in time for

opening night. We are ready to get everyone into places, cue up the orchestra, and turn

the spotlights on to applied linguists everywhere for a fantastic event! And if we’re not

found at a particular academic session, we just might be at the Lazy River, blissfully

floating along in the Florida sun with drinks in hand…. Well, we can dream, right?

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Alumni Spotlights MIDDLEBURY INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL ST UDIES AT MONTEREY

Of the chilly winters in Middlebury,

Vermont, Lama Nassif said, “Well it’s not as

snowy as last year, but it’s definitely not nearly

as warm as Monterey.” This is actually a bit of

an understatement, given that Lama is

originally from Syria, where winters aren’t

quite as cold. Lama first heard of MIIS

through the Fulbright Fellowship program

while she was teaching English at a university

in Damascus. She knew she wanted to pursue

graduate school, so she spoke with more

people who had heard of MIIS and did her

research online. Immediately, she felt

welcomed as an international student.

Lama can’t say enough good things about

her experience at MIIS. From the excellent

language classes, to the inspiring professors,

to the diverse cultural community, MIIS had

easily captured her interest. Not only was she

pleased with the education she was receiving,

but she truly felt inspired and prepared to

continue teaching and pursue her PhD. She

graduated with her MA in TESOL in 2007.

After teaching Arabic at the Institute for

one year, Lama returned home to Syria for two

years to finish her Fulbright residency. She

came back to the U.S. to complete her PhD at

the University of Texas at Austin. She found

her way back into the Middlebury family by

taking a position as an Assistant Professor of

Arabic at Middlebury College, where she now

works. At Middlebury, she works with the

Arabic Department and the Linguistics

Program, and so she teaches Arabic language

and linguistics courses such as Arabic

sociolinguistics and Arabic learning and

instruction. She continues to do research in

her area of interest, noticing and attention in

L2 development, and she is also currently

investigating Arabic learners’ spoken

production when simultaneously introduced

to Modern Standard Arabic and a colloquial

variety, which is a key issue in Arabic learning

and instruction especially given the diglossic

nature of Arabic. She hopes to contribute

research that will not only inform Arabic SLA

research, but also the field of SLA as a whole.

Her advice to any current students is to “enjoy

the MIIS experience as much as possible, it

will go by quickly.” She adds, “It is also a great

idea to look ahead with your assignments and

ask questions, because your professors want to

help you!” She urges students to make as

many connections to their future work and

studies as possible and branch out.

Lama Nassif—MA TESOL ‘07

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On a recent visit to MIIS, alumna Carolin

Fuchs said, “One of the best things about MIIS is

the community, even after twenty years I still am

right at home.” Carolin has been quite successful

in the field of language teaching since her time at

MIIS. She grew up in Germany and earned her BA

-equivalent in Translation and Interpretation in

Munich. After moving to the United States, she

quickly realized that she was not fond of the desk

work associated with a career in translation. After

having heard of MIIS from a professor in

Riverside, California, she found herself enrolled in

the M.A. TESOL Program and also did a

Certificate in TFL German. It didn’t take long for

her to fall in love with the program and the MIIS

community.

After graduating in December 1997, she stayed

at MIIS where she taught as an adjunct in the

English Studies Program and in the German

Studies Program while also taking courses in the

newly founded CALL Certificate Program as part

of her professional development. In order to make

her intermediate German class more “real” and

“authentic” for students, she connected her

students with English learners at her alma mater

in Munich to engage in a telecollaborative

language exchange. After serving as Acting Head

of German Studies at the Institute, she received a

PhD scholarship from the Hans Boeckler

Foundation and returned to Germany to complete

her PhD in English Studies. Afterwards, she

returned to California, where she taught ESL at a

language school in San Francisco and German at

UC Berkeley. From 2007 to 2015, she held a

Lecturer position in the TESOL/Applied

Linguistics Program at Teachers College,

Columbia University. She greatly enjoyed

preparing student teachers for the complex worlds

of language teaching – especially in blended/

hybrid, telecollaborative, and online

environments. Eventually Carolin found herself at

the forefront of technology implementation in the

language learning and in teacher education and

the pedagogy associated with it. She cites MIIS

Professor Leo Van Lier as being absolutely

essential to her success in teaching and the

progress of her career.

Carolin currently holds a position as Assistant

Professor in the English Department at the City

University of Hong Kong. She teaches

sociolinguistics, language and digital media, and

intercultural communication to both MA and BA

students. Her intercultural communication work

is in conjunction with learners at SUNY Syracuse.

Although she just arrived in August of 2015, she

has been enjoying the new experience in Hong

Kong. Her advice for any current TESOL/TFL

students is simple: be flexible with where your

career takes you, network, and keep in touch with

your alumni and professors.

Carolin Fuchs—MA TESOL/TFL ‘97

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Bob Cole has been a member of the MIIS

community for nearly twenty years now. He has

been actively involved in teaching, language

program administration, technology integration,

and organizational development of the campus

since his graduation from the TESOL program in

1996. Being from the Monterey Bay area, he was

first attracted to the Institute because of the

opportunities for applied learning, international

travel, and practical teaching experience. Initially

enrolled in the Peace Corps Masters International

(PCMI) program, Bob ultimately decided to stay

in Monterey to finish his MA. After a few years

gaining experience as an adjunct teaching ESL in

local community colleges and in the Institute’s

intensive English and special programs, in 2001

he was hired as a lead teacher for the Institute’s

ESL program, a role designed to provide

instructional continuity and to maintain

programmatic connections with the TESOL

program.

Bob eventually became the director of the ESL

and non-degree English for Academic &

Professional Purposes programs and with it came

a whole new set of challenges. He reports that he

gained much of his program administration

experience on the job while also auditing a few of

Kathi Bailey’s LPA courses as a strategy for

tooling up to fill gaps in his administrative

skillset. As the director of the IESL program he

worked closely with graduate students completing

their practicum teaching requirement, others

enrolled in computer assisted language learning

certificate courses, as well as alumni who

remained in the area to teach in the programs. He

says that the creativity, collaboration, and

collegiality he has experienced among faculty,

staff, and students at the Institute are key reasons

he has made the Institute his professional home.

Today, as Director of the Institute’s Digital

Learning Commons, Bob continues to draw upon

his ESL teaching experience getting students out

of the classroom through project-and community-

based learning. In addition to supporting a range

of digital platforms, tools, and resources, the staff

and graduate assistant team in the DLC are

engaged in collaborative projects exploring

blended, hybrid, and online teaching in evolving

digital learning environments. Projects include

piloting the Middcreate ‘domain of one’s own’

platform, developing the Intercultural Digital

storytelling Project, and working on the Spanish

Graduate Community Interprerting Online

Certificate Program, to name just a few! Bob

continues to be inspired by the Institute’s mission

and cites that as his main reason for staying at the

school as well as the tight-knit community of

professors and students. Seeing graduate students

come and go and watching their careers take flight

is incredibly rewarding for him. You can find Bob

on any given day at the Digital Learning

Commons continuing to help bring MIIS into the

21st century!

Bob Cole, MA TESOL ‘96

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MIIS enters the world of online teacher training in South Asia

In the Fall of 2015, GSTILE Assistant Dean for Language and Professional Programs Patricia Szasz (MA TESOL ’06, LPA) together with Meghan Rasmussen, Director of Foundation Relations and Institutional Grants, were granted the opportunity through the United States Department of State to offer an eight-week online course called Lesson Planning and Materials Development to English teachers in India and Bhutan. Putting the course together and delivering it involved harnessing the expertise of various individuals across MIIS. Patricia worked with the US Embassy in New Delhi and the English Language Office to design the course proposal. She also served as the liaison between MIIS and its partners throughout the registration process, and compiled the student evaluations into a report for the embassy. MIIS MA TESOL/TFL professor Thor Sawin served as the course instructor, developing instructional videos, interacting with the course participants through real-time Adobe Connect sessions and lively discussion forums, and evaluating student work.

The Digital Learning Commons (DLC), directed by Bob Cole (MA TESOL ’05), was also an essential part of the process. Digital Learning Specialist Amy Slay, (MAIEM/MPA ’15) provided the instructional design: coordinating the process of developing materials, developing the course aesthetic and navigation, and supporting the user experience through comprehensive technical training and support. Mark Basse, the DLC Digital Media Specialist, was in charge of filming and editing the course instructional videos and developing comprehension activities interspersed throughout. Because of the wide range of technological constraints faced by the course participants in South Asia, all instructional content was made available in several formats: video, audio, and written transcripts. Several DLC graduate assistants also contributed their time and talents to creating these materials.

The course, offered from October through December of 2015, was judged to be a resounding success. Despite obstacles such as typhoons, a thirteen-and-a-half hour time difference, bandwidth constraints, and an usually wide range of teaching contexts and levels of expertise, this Lesson Planning

course sparked a vibrant and active online community. Together MIIS instructors and the talented English teachers from around India and Bhutan brainstormed solutions to such challenges as large multi-level classes, power outages, disinterested learners, pressure from rigid standardized tests, diversity of English varieties, skepticism from administrators, lack of opportunities to practice outside the classroom, and managing heavy teaching loads.

The teacher-participants were enthusiastic learners, creative in their suggestions to each other, and very receptive to techniques and approaches used in our own English teacher training at MIIS. The participants also were surprised how much easier and more rewarding the online course was than they expected. The MIIS team behind the course were grateful that the feedback was enthusiastically positive, as the following quotes attest:

“I have never been very comfortable with online courses as I am not very technology-friendly. This course has indeed changed my perception. “

“I found [the course] extremely helpful to place it in my teaching context. The coherent manner in which it was presented aided me in grasping the ideas more effectively. I also appreciate the well-planned way in which the course was organized. I feel that these factors have really contributed in making this course a tremendous success. “

“Thor's lessons are really commendable. He has helped us to learn, un-learn and re- learn some of the concepts in a comprehensible manner. He has a wonderful talent of discussing serious topics in a simple manner which we teachers usually lack.”

This course paved the way for future opportunities for online language teacher training at MIIS. The DLC learned a great deal about managing the development of online courses, and delivering them in environments with a wide range of social and technical constraints. Dr. Sawin really enjoyed exploring the practicalities of diverse teaching contexts, and brainstorming workable solutions to pressing instructional issues together with kind (“Sir” and “Madam” were frequent forms of address) and motivated teachers across the world.

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5th Annual Monterey Bay Foreign Language Education Symposium

The Monterey Bay Foreign Language Education

Symposium (FLEDS) 2015–2016 Planning

Committee is pleased to continue celebrating

foreign language education with its fifth annual

conference. This year, the event will be held on

April 23rd, 2016 on the campus of the Middlebury

Institute of International Studies at Monterey. The

planning and organization committee consists of

current graduate students in the following

programs: Teaching English to Speakers of Other

Languages (TESOL), Teaching Foreign Language

(TFL), International Education Management

(IEM), and Public Administration (MPA).

In line with MIIS' devotion to and passion for

foreign language education throughout the broader

community, we have invited speakers and guests

from over 50 high schools, colleges, and

universities in and around Monterey, Santa Cruz,

and San Benito Counties. This year, we are honored

to host our keynote speaker, Nicole Naditz, French

teacher to students in grades 3-12 since 1993 and

2015 ACTFL National Language Teacher of the

Year. The conference will also feature 20

presentations and a poster session with 10

participants on various topics relevant to the field

of foreign language education including usage of

art as resources of language learning, mobile

assisted language learning, developing intercultural

competency, and more.

Every year, the aim of FLEDS is to celebrate and

enrich foreign language education through the

exchange of recent developments and innovations

in the field. This year, the planning committee has

decided to actualize this goal through our theme of

Practices, Progress & Possibilities. Practices, by

discovering how teachers are currently applying

theory to practice in their language classrooms.

Progress, by learning about new and exciting

developments in Foreign Language and Education

research, and Possibilities, by discussing the future

direction of the ever-expanding field. By

encompassing many of the important issues in the

field of language education with this theme, we

expect to attract over 150 language educators,

students, school administrators, and community

members. The featured presentations coupled with

the diversity of the attendees are guaranteed to

make this year's FLEDS a great success.

To learn more about the conference, please check

the FLEDS website.

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Institute Hosts EnglishUSA Professional Development Conference

In January 2016, the Institute played host to the

8th Annual EnglishUSA Professional Development

Conference. EnglishUSA is the American

Association of Intensive English Programs serving

over 450 member programs throughout the United

States. The two-day conference is the only one of

its kind, focusing solely on best practices for

language educators working in Intensive English

Programs. After running the conference for some

years in downtown San Francisco, GSTILE

Assistant Dean Patricia Szasz (MA TESOL ’06,

LPA, who is the current President-Elect of

EnglishUSA, convinced the Association’s Board to

come to Monterey.

The conference showcased the strong TESOL

alumni network that the Institute has built over the

past 35 years. Many alumni were found on the

program of over 60 concurrent sessions, including

Celeste Coleman (MA TESOL ‘08) sharing ideas for

service learning, Tom Delaney (MA TESOL ‘98)

modelling how to use needs analysis, Maiko Hata

(MA TESOL ‘97) talking about supporting students

with learning disabilities, and Britt Johnson (MA

TESOL ‘02) discussing a shared governance model

for faculty and administrators. Poster sessions by

current Language & Professional Programs staff

and faculty Jennifer Peck (MA TESOL ‘10), Julie

Krolak (MA TESOL ‘10) and Rachel Vidmar

Muradyan (MA IEM ’15) were also well-received.

Current graduate students from the TESOL/TFL

and International Education Management

programs volunteered at the conference and took

the opportunity to network with alumni who may

very well end up being future employers and

colleagues. Not surprisingly, the event illustrated

the power and scope of the Middlebury network as

some participants were also Middlebury College

and Middlebury Language Schools alumni.

Overall, attendees seemed to appreciate being in

Monterey and getting a chance to see the campus.

As one participant stated: “Monterey was an ideal

location.” Looks like EnglishUSA will be back again

next year, so see you in January 2017!

Married alumni Tom Delaney (MA TESOL ‘98) and Maiko Hata

(MA TESOL ‘97) came back to Monterey for the conference. They

both work at the University of Oregon’s American English Institute.

Institute Lead Instructors Jennifer Peck (MA TESOL ‘10) and Julie Krolak (MA TESOL ‘10) discuss their extensive reading program with alumna Celeste Coleman (MA TESOL ‘08), who

works at CSU – San Marcos

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Leo Van Lier Lecture Series The annual Leo van Lier Lecture Series was established in 2013 to

honor the memory of long-time Institute professor, Leo van Lier,

who passed away on December 23, 2012. The Leo van Lier Lecture

Series brings pre-eminent scholars in the fields of applied and edu-

cational linguistics to campus each year to address faculty and

graduate students regarding current topics and issues in applied

and educational linguistics and in language education. Guests of

the 2015 Lecture Series included, Kim Potowski, Eileen Glisan, Pat-

sy Duff and Roy Lyster.

To donate, follow the link below:

go.miis.edu/give

Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey