MEXTESOL Journal : Vol. 34 No. 1, 2010

Published: March, 2011
ISSN: 1405-3470

 Download issue   [pdf  2481 Kb]

» From the editor
» Table of contents
Editor-in-Chief

Ulrich Schrader (Free Lance Consultant)

Associate Editor for Refereed Articles

M. Martha Lengeling (Universidad de Guanajuato)

Associate Editor for Non-refereed Articles

Saúl Santos (Universidad Autónoma de Nayarit)

Production Editor

JoAnn Miller

From the editor:

This issue of the Journal has a variety of articles related to our daily English language teaching practices. Each one provides us with possible solutions to problems we face in the classroom or provides us with insights into the language learning processes of our students.

The first article, “Struggling for Meaning and Identity (and a passing grade): High-Stakes Writing in English as a Second Language” by Maria Coady and Eileen Ariza, examines the writing of one bilingual, Spanish-dominant secondary school student. The student’s document reveals his multiple identities, as explained by the authors.

The following article, “The Impact of Instruction in Phonetic and Phonemic Distinctions in Sounds on the Pronunciation of Spanish-speaking ESL Learners”, addresses the area of...   [+ read more]


Table of contents:

Struggling for Meaning and Identity (and a passing grade): High-Stakes Writing in English as a Second Language
María Coady1, Eileen Ariza2
University of Florida, Florida Atlantic University

The Impact of Instruction in Phonetic and Phonemic Distinctions in Sounds on the Pronunciation of Spanish-speaking ESL Learners
Jaya S. Goswami1, Hsuan-Yu Chen2
Texas A&M University, Kingsville, Texas, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Online Chat in the Foreign Language Classroom: From Research to Pedagogy
Jill Pellettieri1
Santa Clara University

Impact of Teacher/Student Conferencing and Teacher Written Feedback on EFL Revision
Elsa Fernanda González1
 Universidad Da Vinci, Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas

Making Student-centered Teaching Work
W. I. Griffith, Ph.D.1, Hye-Yeon Lim, Ph.D.2
University of Texas at Austin, Defense Language Institute, Foreign Language Center

Book review: Common Grounds, Contested Territory. Examining the Roles of English Language Teachers in Troubled Times
Dr. Karin Zotzmann1
Benémerita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla