From: "Skyrme, Gillian" <G.R.Skyrme@massey.ac.nz>
Subject: RE: ALANZ Website
Date: 23 December 2019 at 11:35:13 AM NZDT
To: Irina Elgort <irina.elgort@vuw.ac.nz>

Thanks. Irina. Can you add Anna’s report to the AGM draft minutes for this year?
Thank you
 
Gillian
 
From: Irina Elgort <irina.elgort@vuw.ac.nz>  Sent: Sunday, 22 December 2019 12:25 PM To: Skyrme, Gillian <G.R.Skyrme@massey.ac.nz> Subject: Re: ALANZ Website
 
Hi Gillian, 
 
Sure, will do.
 
Best
Irina
  
On 19/12/2019, at 1:46 PM, Skyrme, Gillian <G.R.Skyrme@massey.ac.nz> wrote:
 
Sorry, Irina, can you change Hanna’s email to : hanna@etc.ac.nz
Thanks,

Gillian

 
From: Skyrme, Gillian  Sent: Thursday, 19 December 2019 7:50 AM To: Irina Elgort <irina.elgort@vuw.ac.nz>; hilary_smith@xtra.co.nz Subject: ALANZ Website
 
Dear Irina
 
Can I ask you for some help on the ALANZ website? We would like to add some content, to update some, and if possible to add a link to the Twitter and Facebook accounts that Hilary Smith has set up. Would that be possible? When you have time, of course, which I know is unlikely to be just now!
For the Twitter stuff, it might be best if you contact Hilary, whom I’ve copied in here.
 
The other things are as below:
We have realised there is no information about the Exec Committee there or any of the other people, except Anna on the NZSAL page, so would you add another section to the About page thus:
 Executive Committee
President: Dr Karen Ashton, Massey University, K.Ashton@massey.ac.nz
Secretary: Dr Gillian Skyrme, Massey University, g.r.skyrme@massey.ac.nz
Treasurer: Professor John Macalister, Victoria University of Wellington, john.macalister@vuw.ac.nz
Committee members:
Hanna Brookie, English Teaching College (membership secretary): hannabrookie@yahoo.com
Hilary Smith, Systemetrics Research Associates: hilary_smith@xtra.co.nz
 
The committee is assisted in achieving the work of the Association by the following office holders:
Website Manager: Irina Elgort, Victoria University of Wellington, irina.elgort@vuw.ac.nz
New Zealand Studies in Applied Linguistics Editor: Anna Siyanova-Chanturia, anna.siyanova@vuw.ac.nz
                                                                                                                                                         
Recent Past Presidents Cynthia White, 2017-2019
Lynn Grant, 2013-2017
John Macalister, 2009-2013
John Bitchener, 2005-2009
 
On the Conference/Events page can you remove the two current entries and replace them with:
 ALANZ Symposium 2020
Dunedin: date and venue to be announced shortly
 
ALANZ/ALAA/ALTAANZ Applied Linguistics Conference 2021
Wellington: date and venue to be announced shortly
  
Can you change the About page so where at the bottom it currently says ‘The most recent AGM minutes …’ it will say ‘Recent AGM minutes can be found here’ and then a separate entry for each year, as of 2017, including the draft minutes for the latest AGM, and the financial report (which I hope John will send shortly).
 
There was a desire expressed at the AGM for the site to be more dynamic, so I am thinking that on the Home page the first thing we have is RECENT NEWS, and we can work at getting something new there every now and then. What we could put up now is this (and Karen will send a photo which we can add to it, too, so I’ve copied her in, too, so she can contact you.
 Change of President
At our recent AGM, the previous president, Professor Cynthia White, stood down in the light of her recent appointment as Pro-Vice Chancellor of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Massey University. The meeting thanked her for her contribution. In her stead, Dr Karen Ashton, Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics as Massey University, was elected.
Karen teaches and has taught on range of courses in applied linguistics and language education. Her current research interests include policy on assessment and language learning pedagogy in Asia, classroom-based assessment, teacher agency, and pedagogy for diverse learners. Karen has a PhD in language assessment (University of Cambridge) and a MA in Forensic Linguistics (Cardiff University). She has previously worked as a teacher of English in Japan and the UK, and at Cambridge English where she worked on several large-scale and high profile language education assessment projects including Asset Languages and as the Project Manager for the European Survey on Language Competences.
 
I hope all that is manageable, Irina, and that you are comfortable with having your email there (if not, just omit it and we can just have your name – I don’t want you to be inundated with requests for stuff to go up there).
 
Have a lovely break over Christmas and New Year.
 
Gillian