Asia TEFL Information

In principle, Asia TEFL is an association to which ordinary professors and teachers can have easy access. As you well know, the Asian countries and territories vary widely from region to region in their economic situations. If we were to set annual membership dues and high conference registration fees at rates similar to those of TESOL or IATEFL, Asia TEFL would quickly become an association for a very limited number of members and could quickly become ineffectual. I would like for Asia TEFL to be an organization that is quite different from other existing associations in this aspect. This is my goal and the philosophy underlying the foundation of Asia TEFL. But at the same time, this requires your full understanding and commitment to the organization, which is based on the spirit of sharing and volunteering. More financial support from the organization should go to those who would otherwise not be able to be part of our professional world. This should be a fundamental element to be considered when you are wondering about no membership dues for Asia TEFL and no high registration fees for Asia TEFL conferences. During the next two years, I would like to place strong emphasis on the followings: First, we should concentrate our efforts on the publication of the Journal of Asia TEFL to make it an internationally recognized one. I would like to ask those who plan to contribute articles to the Journal to be rigorous in paper preparation. I would also like to ask the editorial committee members to examine every submitted article exhaustively. To globalize our Journal, good quality articles in terms of content and written expression are extremely important. We are establishing a Best Research Paper of the Year Award to promote scholarship. Second, I will try my best to make the 2006 and 2007 Asia TEFL International Conferences as attractive as possible to both our members and nonmembers with full cooperation with the Japan and Malaysia Conference Organizing Committees. In order to achieve this, we will need to ...