There were representatives from NAFSA, Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL), the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), the Modern Language Association (MLA), the Speech Association of America (SAA), the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the state educational systems of California, Michigan, Florida, Arizona, New Mexico, the city of New York, and Canada.

At this point, TESOL organization was called The National Advisory Council on Teaching of English as a Foreign Language (NACTEFL).

An ad hoc committee representing professional organizations, state educational systems, and individuals concerned with the teaching of English to speakers of other languages met on January 30, 1965.

They prepared a brief for the meeting and came up with a questionnaire to enable any and all members of the Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc. (TESOL) was established in 1966.

At the third annual meeting, they also made the first steps for TESOL Quarterly and they appointed their first editor, Betty Wallace Robinett from Ball State University, Indiana.

Also, studies in EFL countries increased in the past 20 years and most of these articles came from Asia Pacific contexts.