[etni] Fwd: ASIA TEFL Elections

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Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 12:38:39 +0200
From: Susan Holzman <holzms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: FW: ASIA TEFL Elections

I have recently sent the following email (with some modifications. I took
out a photograph and changed the text accordingly )  to the entire
membership of ASIA TEFL in Israel and, unfortunately many (or maybe most) of
the messages returned. If you are a member of ASIA TEFL, please be in
contact with me about the elections AND send me an updated email address. If
you are not a member, please consider joining this important organization.
http://www.asiatefl.org/  Membership is FREE!

Many thanks and shavua tov,

Susan Holzman


Dear members of Asia Tefl,

At the recent Asia TEFL conference in Seoul, I participated on a panel
discussing national standardized exams in various countries. The panelists
included representatives from Taiwan, Iran, Israel, Bangladesh, Vietnam.
India, China, Malaysia and Japan. . This panel , in my opinion, expresses
the essence of Asia Tefl: countries of Asia,  sharing  experiences and
knowledge about the teaching of English as a foreign language in our region.

When Professor Bernard Spolsky, one of the founders of Asia TEFL,  asked me
to represent Israel  (I was at the time chairperson of ETAI) on the
Executive Council (EC)of Asia Tefl I agreed without too much thought. I just
added it to the list of ETAI responsibilities. ETAI is affiliated with TESOL
and IATEFL and I have always considered that international cooperation and
representation is very important for an Israeli organization. In 2005, I
decided to attend the Asia TEFL conference in Beijing, and I became an Asia
TEFL addict. My addiction has taken me to japan, Malaysia**, Bali Indonesia,
Thailand, Vietnam and Korea. I have every intention of going to new Delhi
for the upcoming conference in 2012 and to Manila in 2012.*

Although all the representatives of the various regions were appointed or
volunteered in the beginning of their tenure on the EC , the constitution of
the organization requires that new elections be held every two years to
reconfirm the representation of the current EC member or to nominate a new
one. I would like to ask at this time for you, the members of Asia TEFL
Israel, to either suggest nominations for a new EC member from or approve my
continued representation for another two years.

I am hoping that you will take a few minutes to respond to this email,
browse the Asia TEFL website [http://www.asiatefl.org/]  (as a member, you
have free access to the on line edition of the journal), consider attending
the conference in Delhi  and encourage your colleagues to join (can be done
online at the website).

Best wishes for the upcoming school year,

Susan Holzman


*EC members do not pay conference fees and their accommodation for the four
days of the conference is paid for by the organization, but travel expenses
are not covered. Some of the EC members have travel allowances from their
institutions; those of us who do not (like me). Pay their own travel
expenses.

** For this conference and the one in Bali, in order to avoid the Visa
question, I travelled on my American passport. Asia TEFL is not political,
but some of the host countries' governments  are not so open-minded.
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