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2007
Hawaii was the site of the 2007 conference. Taylor and
Francis began publishing the society's journal, Critical
Inquiry in Language Studies: An
International Journal. Terry A. Osborn and Timothy Reagan
completed their terms as editors, and the society's
executive board named John Watzke of Saint Louis University
as the editor for a five year term.
2005
Montréal was the site of the 2005 conference. The gathering
featured over 200 papers, luncheon, and evening reception,
with participants from Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada,
China, Columbia, Denmark, Finland,
 Jamaica,
Japan, Jordan, Korea, Kuwait, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands,
New Zealand, Nigeria, Oman, Puerto Rico, Russia, Singapore,
South Africa, Taiwan, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, United
Kingdom, and the United States.
2004
At the start of 2004, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates began
publishing Critical
Inquiry in Language Studies: An International Journal, the
official journal of the society, edited by Terry A. Osborn
and Timothy Reagan. A journal subscription became an
automatic benefit of membership.
2003
As the 2003 inaugural conference of the International
Society for Language Studies approached, scholars from
around the globe began to join the fledgling association.
These scholars
 included
members from Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, China,
Denmark, Finland, Greece, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iran,
Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Malaysia, New Zealand, Nigeria,
Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, South Africa,
Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab
Emirates, United Kingdom, and the United States of America.
A number of these members converged in St. Thomas for what
was perhaps the most beautiful setting imaginable for a
conference. As the summer progressed, the founding
membership rolls were filled, and ISLS began to have more
new members enroll almost daily as the society was
incorporated in the State of Delaware. At the same time,
planning was underway for an official journal for ISLS and a
2005 conference in Montréal. ISLS was recognized as a
non-profit 501(c)6 corporation by the Internal Revenue
Service of the United States.
2002
Professors from universities in the United States and Canada
began planning a conference to be held in St. Thomas, USVI,
with the theme of "The Transformation of Language Education
and Research." The discussions led to the suggestion that a
new scholarly association, in addition to a mere single
conference, was the transformation needed.
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About Us
The International Society for Language Studies, Inc. is a
Delaware Corporation recognized by the United States
Internal Revenue Service as a 501(c)6 non-profit trade
association. The International Society for Language
Studies (ISLS) was created in 2002 by scholars united in
their goal to have a forum encouraging and disseminating
post-positivistic research in languages matters, broadly
conceived. Prior to the founding of ISLS such research was
presented in venues primarily designed for applied
linguistics, educational studies, language-specific
concerns, literary criticism, anthropology, sociology,
history, or similar disciplines. ISLS seeks to bring
together scholars from research disciplines whose research
has been on issues of language studies. We hold
bi-annual conferences and sponsor a number of publication
initiatives to strengthen research in critical language
studies.
EXECUTIVE BOARD
MEMBERS
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President (2008-2010)
Lisa Patel Stevens, Boston College
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Vice President
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Miguel Mantero, University of Alabama
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Secretary-Treasurer
(2006-2009)
John L. Watzke, St. Louis University
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Immediate Past
President
Timothy Reagan, Central Connecticut State University
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Director at Large
(2006-2009)
Ryuko Kubota, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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Director at Large
(2007-2010)
Angel Lin, City University of Hong Kong
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Director at Large
(2008-2011)
Melisa Cahnmann, University of Georgia
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Director at Large
(2008-2011)
Elizabeth Miller, University of North Carolina-Charlotte
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Conference Chair
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Terry A. Osborn, Fordham University |
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Nobuko Adachi
Michael Apple
Elsa Roberts Auerbach
Francesca Balladon
Dennis Baron
Charles Bazerman
William Beeman
Martha Bigelow
Sari Knopp Biklen
William Bradley
Mary Ariail Broughton
Vicki L. Bunnell
John Bunting
Maggie Canvin
Jioanna Carjuzaa
Gilles Carjuzaa
Lili E. Carrasco
Marma M. Carreira
Meng Huat Chau
Chifen Emily Chen
Robert Cloutier
Maria Coady
Leslie Cook
Thomas C. Cooper
Arthur Costigan
James Cummins
Mary Margaret Curran
Jacqueline Davis
J. Mark Davis
Richard Donato
Yu Ren Dong
William E. Dunn
Carol Edelsky
Carol Erting
Rosalie Finlayson
John Flowerdew
Yoshifumi Fukada
Pedro Garcez
Eduardo Garcia
James Gee
David Gerwin
Greta Gorsuch
Mileidis Gort
Karsten Gramkow
François M. Grin
Joan Kelly Hall
Erin Hamel
Anne Marie Hamilton
Lynne Hansen
Jeremy Hatfield
L. Kathy Heilenman
Deborah M. Herman
Susan Hildebrandt
Nikola Hobbel
Yung-hung (Sandra) Hsiao
Lucia Huang
Stephanie Jones
Clover Jones-McKenzie
Stephen Kercel
Sooyoung Kim
Celeste Kinginger
Stephen Krashen
Richard Kretschmer
Laurence Krute
Shih Chih Kuo
Dale L. Lange
James Lantolf
Marie Ellen Larcada
Nancy A. Lauckner
Betty Lou Leaver
Jennifer Leeman
Cynthia Lewis
Angel Lin*
Barbara Lindsey
Judith E. Liskin-Gasparro
Susi Long
Allan Luke
Lixia Ma
Lynne McGivern
Jean McGivney-Burelle
Marcianne McHugh
Jennifer Miller
Sonia Nieto
Deanna Nisbet
Bonny Norton
Frank Nuessel
Margaret Obondo
Marie-Claire Ogandaga Akinloye Ojo
Mafumi Omura
Lourdes Ortega
Terry A. Osborn*
Sue Otto
Denise Overfield
Susan Parks
Christina Bratt Paulston
Aneta Pavlenko
Claire Penn*
Alastair Pennycook
Timothy Perry
Robert Phillipson
Vai Ramanathan
Rengasamy Ramasamy
Timothy Reagan*
Xae Alicia Reyes
Frances Riemer
Dot Robbins
Ana Roca
Eliana Rojas
Carol M. Saunders
Harold Schiffman
Sandra Schreffler
Elana Shohamy
Tove Skutnabb-Kangas
Roumyana Slabakova
Jane H. Smith
Steven Talmy
Carmen Chaves Tesser
C. Martin Vélez-Salas
James Tollefson
Guadalupe Valdés
Teun A. van Dijk
Ozlem Eraydin Virtanen
Dinah Volk
Amy L. VonCanon
John Watzke*
John Wolfe
Masataka Yamaguchi
Gabriela Zapata
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