Happy New Year!
I would like to welcome both new and returning members to
Alabama-Mississippi TESOL. We are happy to be a growing organization and
are looking forward to your participation and support.
As many of you know, this past September AMTESOL hosted the
2008 Southeast Regional Conference in Birmingham. It was quite a success
and attendance exceeded our expectations. Thank you so much to our
conference chair, Julia Austin, and all of those who helped both
officially and unofficially.
Since we hosted the SETESOL conference, AMTESOL will not hold an annual
conference for this year, 2009.
Our next AMTESOL conference will be held
at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi, on January 29
and 30, 2010. Dr. Esim Erdim, our conference chair, is already hard at
work and would love some assistance. Please contact Esim (eerdim@olemiss.edu)
if you are able to volunteer.
Fortunately, the 2009 SETESOL conference will also be geographically
near for many of us. It will be hosted by Georgia TESOL at the Atlanta
Hilton Hotel on September 16-19, 2009. Find out more at
http://www.gatesol.org/Conferences/Conference_index.htm.
We hope to see you there!
During our non-conference year, your board will continue to work on ways
in which we can better serve you. Joy Brown is diligently working on
updating and expanding our website and you may be receiving emails from
time to time with new resources and opportunities. Feel free to let us
know the ways in which AMTESOL can serve you better. I look forward to
hearing from you.
Elise Harbin
2010 AMTESOL Conference Information
