SLWIS Newsletters

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NB: There are two separate calls for submissions: the first one for SLW and CALL intersections and the second one for SLW News, Volume 5, Issue 2. See both of the two calls below.


Call for Submissions
SLW News, SLW and CALL Intersections: Re-imagining L2 Writing in a Digitized World

In a special issue of SLW News and On CALL, the Second Language Writing (SLW) and Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) Interest Sections will focus on how new technologies are reshaping how we teach in a variety of academic and professional settings. We are especially interested in articles, reports, book reviews, software reviews, classroom-based research, teaching techniques, and assessment that focus on new directions and possibilities for teaching L2 writing in a digitized world.

Deadline: 31 August 2010. Authors retain copyright.

Submission Guidelines

Articles should:

  • be no longer than 1500 words
  • include a 50-word (up to 500 characters) abstract and 2-3 sentence author biography
  • contain no more than five citations
  • follow the style guidelines in Publications Manual of the American Psychological Association, Fifth Edition (APA)
  • be in MS Word (.doc(x)) or rich text (.rtf) format

Book and Media Review Guidelines

Reviews should

  • be in APA format
  • be 600-900 words in length
  • include a 50-word (up to 500 characters) abstract and 2-3 sentence author biography

Please direct questions to Margi Wald, SLW News, mwald@berkeley.edu and Suzan Stamper, CALLIS, stampers@iupui.edu.

Send submissions to Margi Wald mwald@berkeley.edu.

If you know that you have an item but won't be able to complete it by 31 August, please contact us to let us know when you think you'll be able to finish the item. Please also feel free to contact us if you have an idea for an item but are not sure how it will fit into the newsletter's format. Previous issues of newsletters can be accessed at the TESOL website.

CALL-IS: http://www.tesol.org/s_tesol/seccss.asp?CID=168&DID=1638

SLW-IS: http://www.tesol.org/s_tesol/seccss.asp?CID=943&DID=4174


Call for Submissions
SLW News, Volume 5, Issue 2

Did you give a talk at TESOL 2010? At another conference this year?

This year's conference season has certainly been full of opportunities. We encourage you to share what you have gained with others.

For the next issue of SLW News (September 2010) we are particularly interested in write-ups from this year's conferences. If you gave a presentation or led a discussion group, please consider turning it into an article for the next issue. And, if you went to a presentation that you think would be of interest to our members, please consider writing up a summary or asking the presenters to do so.

We also encourage submissions of articles, announcements, and brief reports on any issue of interest to second language writing professionals, including but not limited to reports on classroom-based research, assessment, advocacy issues, teaching techniques, and news from less-represented contexts (Pre-K through 12, two-year colleges, community programs, international K-12 schools, etc.).

The deadline for our next issue is 30 June 2010. Authors retain copyright.

If you know that you have an item but won't be able to complete it by the end of June, please contact us to let us know when you think you'll be able to finish the item. Please also feel free to contact us if you have an idea for an item but are not sure how it will fit into the newsletter's format.

Previous issues of the newsletter can be accessed at the TESOL website:
http://www.tesol.org/s_tesol/seccss.asp?CID=943&DID=4174

Submission guidelines — including those for book reviews and specific context columns — are available in the current issue:
http://www.tesol.org//s_tesol/sec_issue.asp?nid=4116&iid=12099&sid=1

We look forward to your input.

Best,
Cate Crosby and Margi Wald
SLWIS Newsletter Co-editors, TESOL