SLW News welcomes CALL-related articles,
announcements, reports, and reviews in the following
categories:
- Software/Hardware (e.g., organizing systems or integrating
software/hardware in learning environments to enhance writing
instruction, assessment, or program evaluation)
- Materials Design (e.g., using software such as Flash or
MonoConc to design language-learning activities or materials that
address specific language-learning goals, including discovery
activities, practice exercises, storybooks, quizzes, or
games)
- Curriculum Design (e.g., using course management software such
as Blackboard or eCollege to design e-courses, e-programs, or hybrids
for second language writing)
- Applied Writing Research (e.g., writing computer programs to
identify lexico-grammatical features, discourse patterns, or
errors/learner variation in writing, i.e., corpus
linguistics).
Submissions should be in APA format and include a 50-word (500
characters or less) abstract and a 2- to 3-sentence author biography.
Further information is available from Catherine Smith, CALL Column
editor, at casmith@umn.edu. |