CATESOL Newsletter Fall 2013 | Page 14

INTEREST GROUPS Spreading the Word About NNLEI By Stefan Frazier NNLEI Interest Group Coordinator A s an adviser in a MA TESOL program, one of the more frequent comments I hear from international students whose first language is not English, and who are starting to think about looking for jobs, is “I will probably move back to my home country, since I’m a nonnative speaker and schools here won’t hire me.” To which I respond, of course, “Hold on a