ESL RULES, LLC Newsletter                                    December 2011
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Lynda Katz Wilner, of Successfully Speaking, and
  
 
Marjorie Feinstein-Whittaker, of The Whittaker Group, join together to form ESL RULES, LLC for their joint workshops and training materials. Visit their individual websites at www.successfully-speaking.com and 
www.prospeech.com.
  
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Results of the ESL RULES Quiz
Nobody scored 100% on our quiz last month.  For those who took the quiz, you were able to learn the answers. We are awarding $10 in ESL RULES dollars to Mark P, who was the first to score a 90%. Congratulations and contact us to receive $10 off any of our printed materials.
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We hope you enjoyed the bounty of Thanksgiving and we wish you a festive holiday season!  

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Conference News
ASHA logoMarjorie has just returned from San Diego where she attended the 2011 ASHA Convention. One of the few poster sessions on the topic of accent was entitled "Meeting the Needs of International Students in a University Clinic." If you would like to receive the handout from the Clinical Assistant Professor at Purdue University, contact Barb Cicholski at [email protected].

If you know of any worthwhile upcoming conventions, let us know and we'll post it.
 
We will be exhibiting and presenting at TESOL 2012 in Philadelphia in March. If you have never attended this worthwhile convention, check it out at www.tesol.org. We hope to see you there.
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Product Update and Specials
 
Are you working with healthcare professionals and looking for great classroom materials? Check out our line of Medically Speaking Products and view some sample chapters.
 
We added a new product to our Medical Start-up Teacher's Package which includes Medically Speaking: Accent Modification for the Medical Profession(with audio), the Medically Speaking Inventory, Medically Speaking RULES (no audio), and Medically Speaking Idioms (with audio).
 
The cost of this package is $250 (value $269.90).
 
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Wishes for a wonderful holiday season, 

Lynda Katz Wilner  

Marjorie Feinstein-Whittaker

 

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