TESOL Reporter

TESL Reporter

The TESL Reporter is a peer-reviewed semiannual publication of the
Department of English Language Teaching and Learning at Brigham Young
University Hawaii, and is dedicated to the dissemination of ideas and
issues of interest to teachers of English to speakers of other
languages worldwide.

History of the TESL Reporter

The TESL Reporter was “born” back in 1967 in a conversation between
William Conway and Alice Pack, two faculty members of Brigham Young
University Hawaii. At the time, the university was about to launch both
an ESL program for matriculated international students and an
undergraduate (B.A.) major in TESOL (perhaps the first of its kind in
North America). The creation of a publication that would serve the
purposes of the faculty in these two programs and in similar endeavors
in the South Pacific just seemed like the natural thing to do. After
all, there were only two other journals which served the field of ESL
back then: The TESOL Quarterly (its first two issues just off the
press) and the older, English Language Teaching Journal out of England.

The TESL Reporter has remained in print ever since, though undergoing
several changes in editorships, readership, and appearance in the
ensuing years. What has not changed, however, since that first
conversation, is the commitment and the focus of the journal. It has
remained a journal for teachers by teachers, with a solid focus on the
classroom.

Today the TESL Reporter has readers in nearly 110 countries. Our
international review board is proud of its commitment to publish the
ideas of teachers the world over. We encourage you to become a part of
that effort!

Sincerely,
Mark Wolfersberger, Editor
maw44@byuh.edu