Dear FLANC Members, Happy school year to everyone in the language teaching community!  I hope you had a terrific summer.  I am excited to welcome our FLANC members as we start this new year and certain that you are all re-energized to continue working on making linguistic diversity more visible, valued, and vibrant than ever. … Continue reading President’s message, Fall 2017 →

Dear FLANC Members, Happy school year to everyone in the language teaching community! On behalf of the Executive Council, I welcome our returning and new members and invite them to join me in thanking Dr. Fabián Banga, our 2014-2016 FLANC president, for his splendid job at guiding our association through two very productive and exciting … Continue reading President’s messages – Fall 2016 →

I would like to start off by wishing all of you in our learning language community a fantastic 2015-2016 academic year. I not only wish you this in my name but also in the name of our FLANC executive council. We all know that, as language teachers, we often do not earn high salaries and … Continue reading President’s Message – Fall 2015 →

At the beginning of each semester, with the exhausting demands and challenges of preparing classes, managing departmental duties, spending time with our families, etc., I always remember the conversations I used to have with my dear friend and longtime member of FLANC, Norman Litz. We used to say that we could find many reasons why … Continue reading President’s Message – Fall 2014 →

My schedule this year from spring through summer was different from that of the past several years. First, while I normally teach three courses at San Francisco State University, I spent my sabbatical semester on working on an edited volume entitled the “Handbook of Japanese Applied Linguistics,” one of the eleven handbooks on Japanese linguistics … Continue reading President’s Message – Fall 2013 →

A belated Happy New Year to all FLANC members. My winter vacation was rather busy. I spent the end of last year and the beginning of the New Year in Japan. First of all, however, I would like to report that the FLANC Workshops and Conference 2012 – “Languages are the Golden Gate to Culture” … Continue reading President’s Message – Spring 2013 →

I spend early June almost every year in Japan, but I left San Francisco a little early this year. Because I was appointed to be a Guest Professor at the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL) in Tokyo, I flew to Japan shortly after the commencement ceremony at SF State University. For the … Continue reading President’s Message – Fall 2012 →