Dear TESOL-SPAIN members and Newsletter contributors,

I would like to draw your attention to an unfortunate fact, which is the loss of many documents and submissions to the Newsletter when my computer was stolen a few weeks ago. As my backup seems to have stored only part of the material submitted to the TESOL-SPAIN Newsletter, I need your help to make sure I’ll retrieve what was lost.

Please, if any of you have sent in articles, book reviews, or any other texts for publication in the Newsletter, could you get in touch with me to check if I have retrieved the initial copy or whether you need to resend it?

I sincerely apologise for the inconvenience and possible delays this might cause many of you and will be happy to answer any questions at publications@tesol-spain.org or at 91 211 5630.

Dear TESOL-SPAIN members,

As you will notice when you take a look at the TESOL-SPAIN membership forms in this issue, we have raised our membership fees. Individual membership is now € 25, student membership € 10, and institutional membership € 20.

Those of you who are long-standing members know that TESOL-SPAIN has not raised its membership fees in more than  8 years, since we are all aware that many of our members have to make a considerable financial effort to pay membership and convention registration fees each year. However, running a non-profit organisation at national level is expensive, and we feel that we need to ask you for a bit of extra support to be able to ensure the smooth running of the association.

In addition, we are confident that you’ll have noticed the improvement in the contents and number of issues of the newsletter, in providing convention information to all members and in offering speaker grants for the convention.

 In conclusion, we hope you will find the slight rise reasonable and justified by the improvements we have made. We will be happy to answer any questions you might have at publications@tesol-spain.org or at 91 2115630. Please also consult the financial report, if you’d like further details on how our funds are administrated.