Teacher association launches quarterly; closes two other titles.

Education professional association Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL; Alexandria, VA) has begun the publication of Essential Teacher, a new quarterly magazine, and has ceased publication of both TESOL Journal, a quarterly journal, and TESOL Matters, a bimonthly tabloid newspaper. The two closed titles were both launched in 1991.

Essential Teacher will be distributed to all TESOL members as an association benefit and is available via subscription for non-members. The title has an initial controlled circulation of 16,000 and focuses on the professional development of TESOL educators at all levels. Its mission is to "inspire and inform ESL and EFL teachers and their professional collegues with articles on field-related issues."

Editorial includes the regular features: "Communities of Practice," a section about the challenges that come from teaching English; "Portal," a section that examines new technologies as relevant to teachers, technologists and administrators; reviews of mixed media products, such as books, software, CDs, by teachers; and, a section that includes "innovative

work from inside and outside the English language teaching world," TESOL said. An online complement to the title, "Compleat Links," is thematically linked to the print magazine and carries additional information.