Purpose of ORTESOL

ORTESOL is a nonprofit organization whose purposes are to promote scholarship, disseminate information, strengthen, at all levels, instruction and research in the teaching of English to speakers of other languages or dialects and to cooperate in appropriate ways with other groups having similar concerns.

Membership Benefits

Members receive the ORTESOL Newsletter (four issues a year), ORTESOL Journal (one a year), Membership Directory and Handbook, annual ORTESOL conference advance notice and registration form, funding for regional workshops, access to TESOL and ORTESOL conference and travel grants, special interest group membership, advocacy efforts for the TESOL profession and ESOL students in Oregon. Membership in ORTESOL does NOT include TESOL membership.

Institutional Benefits

Institutional members are entitled to the same benefits as individual members, plus: (1) one designated person at the institution receives a personal membership included in the institutional membership (please specify person); (2) the institution can send visiting foreign scholars to ORTESOL conferences, free of charge, with prior approval of the Conference Coordinator; and (3) a link to the institution's web page from the ORTESOL web page will be established.

Membership is automatically included when you register for our annual fall conference. Otherwise, you may join by downloading our Membership Form (pdf).