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Each issue focuses on a theme of interest to ESOL professionals, such as the job market, technology, assessment, and teaching ESOL in the content areas. Articles cover a broad spectrum of ESOL instruction, including elementary,secondary, and higher education, intensive English programs, adult education, and teacher training. Besides theme-based articles, Idiom features the following regular columns: Book Reviews, Culture Notes and Promising Practices.

Summer 2016 Issue
(this entire issue is publicly available)
(Volume 46, issue 3)

Table of Contents   Pages
TESOL International President's Letter
by Dudley Reynolds, TESOL International

1
President's Letter
by Sarah Elia, Haggerty English Language Program, SUNY New Paltz
  2
Integrating Fluency and Accuracy with Logic Puzzles
by Linda Ciano, American Language Institute, School of Professional Studies
New York University

3-4
WeChat: Leveraging Cell Phone Technology in the English Language Classroom
 by Caroline Webb, Miami University 

5-6
Encounters of the Collaborative Kind: When SIOP Meets ECRIF
by Ching Ching Lin, Touro College

7-10
Applied Linguistics Winter Conference: A True Meeting of the Minds
by Anna Ciriani Dean, Teachers College, Columbia University

11
Shifting the Focus to the Student: The ExcEL Attitude
by Laureen Avery - UCLA’s Center X, Northeast Regional Office
Jason Cervone & Lisa DiMartino- UCLA’s Center X

12-14
Extensive Reading: A Collaborative Approach
by Frances Boyd & Christopher Collins, American Language Program Columbia University

15-17
Providing Adult Students with Multilingual Instruction in an ESL Classroom
by Ruhma Choudhury & Leigh Garrison-Fletcher- LaGuardia Community College, CUNY

18-20
Read It All: Simultaneous Multiliteracy in the Classroom
by Brendan Gillett, Teachers College, Columbia University

21-22
Culture Notes—Education and the Syrian Refugee Crisis
by Karen Gilmartin, The Language Connection, St. John’s University

23-24
Tech Tools—Mission US
by Ravneet Parmar, Manhattan Educational Opportunity Center

25-26
Book Review—Collaboration and Co-Teaching: Strategies for English Learners
by Marisa Aiello, K–12, Long Island

27-28
Reflections—A Reflection on Two Teaching Models for Meeting the New CR 154 Mandates
by Barbara Suter, East Meadow Suffolk Community College (retired)

29-30
Reprint with corrections: Teaching Authentic
Language Using Visual Media
by Alicia Salazar, Intensive English Center, International Academic Programs, SUNY Stony Brook

31-32
NYS TESOL leadership (2016)  

Book Review

collaboration and coteaching: strategies for english language learners by maria dove and andrea honigsfeld


Save the Date! NYS TESOL 46th Annual Conference