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1. TESOL Journal Editorial Staff
Editor
Margo DelliCarpini
Lehman College,
The City University of New York
Communities of Participation in TESOL Editor
Tim Stewart
Kyoto University
Language Teacher Research Editor
Thomas S. C. Farrell
Brock University
Students With Interrupted Formal Education Editor
Joye Smith
Lehman College, City University of New York
21st Century Language Skills Editor
James M. Perren
Eastern Michigan University
Managing Editor
Tomiko Breland
TESOL, Inc.
TESOL Journal Editorial Advisory Board
Maureen Andrade
Utah Valley University
David Berry
King Fahd University
of Petroleum and
Minerals
Barbara Brownworth
Stony Brook University
Anne Burns
Macquarie University
Luciana Diniz
Portland Community
College
Linda Gerena
York College, CUNY
Caroline Ho
National Institute of
Education, Singapore
Andrea Honigsfeld
Molloy College
Patricia Juza
Baruch College, CUNY
Tzu-Bin Lin
National Institute of
Education, Singapore
Dilin Liu
University of Alabama
Alan D. Lytle
University of
Arkansas–Little Rock
Douglas Paul Margolis
University of Minnesota
Jose´ A. Montelongo
California Polytechnic State
University
Brett Reynolds
Humber College ITAL
Judy Sharkey
University of New
Hampshire
Rita Elaine Silver
National Institute of
Education, Singapore
Eda Ustunel
Mugla University
Phyllis Wachob
American University in
Cairo
TESOL Journal Additional Readers
Susan Adams, Sally Ann Ashton-Hay, Kenneth M. Bond, Lauren Cervone, Amanda Nicole
Gulla, Helena Hall, Carrie Eunyoung Hong, Martha Iancu, Noriah Ismail, Joy Janzen,
Tamara Jones, Tatyana Kleyn, Mei-Ya Liang, Gail M. Reeder, Deborah Short, Carmen
Vazqueztell, Billy Woodall, Martha Young, Debbie Zacarian
Guest Editor
Gail Weinstein
San Francisco State University
Volume 2 N Issue 2 N June 2011
A journal of teaching and classroom research
from Teachers of English
to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc.

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Dubai Men’s College HCT
Dubai, United Arab
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University of Arizona
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Indianapolis Public Schools
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National-Louis University
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Ottawa Catholic
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Lyndon Language
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TEAL Services
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