Congratulations In Order for FLE Faculty and Alumni

FLE Program advisor and core FLE faculty Dr. Horwitz has been invited to be a featured speaker at the 46th TESOL Annual Convention and Exhibit to be held in March 2013. Her presentation–Anxiety and Beliefs: On Learners, Teachers, and Pink Dresses–discusses her prestigious research on learner and teacher anxiety and beliefs. Please join us in congratulating her for this honor. Dr. Horwitz will also be co-presenting with FLE students and graduates Lama Nasif, Duygu Uslu Ok, Claire Meadows Parrish, and Tung-Wei Kao on Supporting More Successful Second Language Learning Through Learner Training at the TESOL convention.

Core FLE faculty Dr. Sardegna has been elected as Chair-Elect for TESOL’s Speech, Pronunciation, and Listening Interest Section (SPLIS) for the 2013-2014 academic year. Congratulations on this new position, Dr. Sardegna! Dr. Sardegna is also a board member of TexTESOL III affiliate. She will also be presenting her research work on pronunciation and culture learning at TESOL 2013 with MA student Kathleen Smith (Student Teachers Empowering Themselves and Others Through Pronunciation Tutoring), and with doctoral students Shilpa Parnami and Eunjeong Choi (Enhancing International Teaching Assistants' Intercultural and Multimodal Communications). At the 2013 Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Conference, Dr. Sardegna will present her research work on pronunciation instruction (Student Approaches to Pronunciation Improvement and their Relationship to Long-Term Success), and a study with doctoral student Jayoung Song on incidental learning through extensive reading (The Incidental Acquisition of English Prepositions by EFL Learners through Extensive Reading with Production Activities).

Alumni Dr. Hayriye Kayi-Aydar, Assistant Professor of Curriculum & Instruction at the University of Arkansas has been elected as the Chair-elect for TESOL’s Applied Linguistics Interest Section for the 2013-2014 academic year. We are so proud of our alumni!