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HEIS News: our newsletter

Editor: Maria Parker

Book Review Editor: Gena Bennett

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Some highlights from the February 2006 issue include

Articles
• "Action Research for Preparing Reflective Language Teachers" by Mary Jane Curry
• "Recycling Vocabulary in the Classroom" by Gerry Luton
• "The Benefit of Codeswitching for L2 Learners: An Example from the Classroom" by Murat Turk

Book Review titles include books on oral skills, English Grammar and the Academic Word List.

Go here to read the current issue. See list of archived articles from past newsletters.

Call for submissions

HEIS News is soliciting articles on classroom research and practice concerning English as a second or foreign language in higher education settings.

HEIS News welcomes articles that apply to classroom situations and that focus on ESL/EFL pedagogy, second language acquisition, academic literacy, language assessment, applied socio- and psycholinguistics, advocacy, administration, and other related areas. Given the newsletter's electronic format, authors are encouraged to include hyperlinks. The deadline for submitting articles for the next newsletter is June 30, 2006.

Download submission guidelines.

Call for Book Review Submissions for the June Newsletter

In the "Reviews" corner of the HEIS Newsletter, we'd like to include three reviews each issue; in addition, we'd like to publish a special HEIS Reviews Newsletter Edition once or twice per year. We invite you to submit your reviews of classroom texts, teacher references, and theory books for inclusion in the regularly scheduled or special edition newsletters. Currently, we'd like to see reviews of Houghton Mifflin's ESL for Academic Success Series, new TOEFL ibt books, Houghton Mifflin's From College to Careers and Key Concepts, as well as others. Don't forget, books you pick up from publishers at the TESOL Convention would be great to review! For more informaion please contact Book Reviews editor Gena Bennett.

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