TESOL Quarterly
A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect
Founded in 1966
Web Site: www.tesol.org/pubs/magz/tq.html
Location: CSUSB Library, third floor, bound periodicals under the letter T
The last year is unbound (2008) and can be found on the third floor behind the old elevators under current issues.
Indexed Under: Eric Database, Wilson, Print and linguistics, MLA, Sociolinguistics, Sociology
Mission Statement:
“TESOL Quarterly is an international professional organization for those concerned with the teaching of English as second or foreign language and of standard English as a second dialect. TESOL’s mission is to ensure excellent in English language teaching to speakers of other languages. TESOL encourages professionalism in language education; individual language rights; accessible high quality education; collaboration in a global community; and interaction of research and reflective practice for educational improvement.”
2003
Direction towards multi-culturalism, interest in effects of ESL students’ culture; re-conceptualizing language education, looking at learning and not standards measuring performance; teaching issues and practical application for teachers: idioms and academic speech; overcoming problems in technical writing for students.
2004
Public school curricula: how politics affects public schools and how community view ESL education. Research looks at the language that different disciplines use-can ESL students understand it, implementing phonological lesson plans; sounds & pronunciation
Special Topic Issue: Gender issues, second language socialization.
2005
Micro and macro factors of language learning
Looking at early schooling: Uptake (What are the students retaining and how do they demonstrate what they have learned, signs of learning not only at the grammatical level but also at the social level like attitude, behavior, and strategies); collaborative planning by teachers and students
Special Topic Issue: Listening and pronunciation (different accents of English) – acceptance of other accents as a legitimized form of speech.
2006
Cognitive and sociocultural approaches to second language acquisition (SLA); vocabulary and meaning, form-focused or meaning focused; negotiated meanings; literacy and oral language
Special Topic Issue: roles of race, ethnicity, and culture in TESOL.
2007
The influence of ideologies, values, and identities on language learning; micro-level of language teaching and feedback issues, specifically corrective feedback (CF); returning to the issues of language planning and policy (LPP) and the move toward more fluid boundaries; teacher knowledge and identity, the formation and reflection of teachers’ beliefs and practice.
2008
TESOL and its role in the community: law, health, housing, and labor relations. Uses of grammar instruction
Special Issue Topic: Psycholinguistics and TESOL
Submissions: articles cannot be longer than 24 double spaced pages, max. 8500 word.; they should strengthen relationships between theory and practice, original interpretations, make a significant contribution to the field and reflect sound scholarship and design. Content needs to be accessible to a brad audience, even to readers not familiar with the subject matter; since it is an international journal, it welcomes submissions from English language contexts around the world
A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect
Founded in 1966
Web Site: www.tesol.org/pubs/magz/tq.html
Location: CSUSB Library, third floor, bound periodicals under the letter T
The last year is unbound (2008) and can be found on the third floor behind the old elevators under current issues.
Indexed Under: Eric Database, Wilson, Print and linguistics, MLA, Sociolinguistics, Sociology
Mission Statement:
“TESOL Quarterly is an international professional organization for those concerned with the teaching of English as second or foreign language and of standard English as a second dialect. TESOL’s mission is to ensure excellent in English language teaching to speakers of other languages. TESOL encourages professionalism in language education; individual language rights; accessible high quality education; collaboration in a global community; and interaction of research and reflective practice for educational improvement.”
2003
Direction towards multi-culturalism, interest in effects of ESL students’ culture; re-conceptualizing language education, looking at learning and not standards measuring performance; teaching issues and practical application for teachers: idioms and academic speech; overcoming problems in technical writing for students.
2004
Public school curricula: how politics affects public schools and how community view ESL education. Research looks at the language that different disciplines use-can ESL students understand it, implementing phonological lesson plans; sounds & pronunciation
Special Topic Issue: Gender issues, second language socialization.
2005
Micro and macro factors of language learning
Looking at early schooling: Uptake (What are the students retaining and how do they demonstrate what they have learned, signs of learning not only at the grammatical level but also at the social level like attitude, behavior, and strategies); collaborative planning by teachers and students
Special Topic Issue: Listening and pronunciation (different accents of English) – acceptance of other accents as a legitimized form of speech.
2006
Cognitive and sociocultural approaches to second language acquisition (SLA); vocabulary and meaning, form-focused or meaning focused; negotiated meanings; literacy and oral language
Special Topic Issue: roles of race, ethnicity, and culture in TESOL.
2007
The influence of ideologies, values, and identities on language learning; micro-level of language teaching and feedback issues, specifically corrective feedback (CF); returning to the issues of language planning and policy (LPP) and the move toward more fluid boundaries; teacher knowledge and identity, the formation and reflection of teachers’ beliefs and practice.
2008
TESOL and its role in the community: law, health, housing, and labor relations. Uses of grammar instruction
Special Issue Topic: Psycholinguistics and TESOL
Submissions: articles cannot be longer than 24 double spaced pages, max. 8500 word.; they should strengthen relationships between theory and practice, original interpretations, make a significant contribution to the field and reflect sound scholarship and design. Content needs to be accessible to a brad audience, even to readers not familiar with the subject matter; since it is an international journal, it welcomes submissions from English language contexts around the world
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