SLWIS Newsletter - Volume 6 Number 1 (Plain Text Version)

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In this issue:
LEADERSHIP UPDATES
•  LETTER FROM THE CHAIR
ARTICLES
•  GRADUATE LEARNING COMMUNITIES? INTEGRATING LANGUAGE SUPPORT FOR ESL AND NATIVE-ENGLISH-SPEAKING GRADUATE STUDENTS
•  INNOVATIVE SPELLING STRATEGIES FOR MULTIPLE LEARNING STYLES
•  POSTSCRIPT TO A DISSERTATION: EPISODES OF SELF-MARGINALIZATION
Book Reviews
•  REVIEW OF GRAMMAR-WRITING CONNECTIONS: MASTERING STRUCTURE FOR IMPROVED WRITING
•  REVIEW OF ESL WRITERS: A GUIDE FOR WRITING CENTER TUTORS
•  REVIEW OF WRITING ASSESSMENT AND THE REVOLUTION IN DIGITAL TEXTS AND TECHNOLOGIES
CALL Column
•  COMING SOON: CALL-SLW INTERSECTION NEWSLETTER
EFL Column
•  THE ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY AND EFL ARABIC SPEAKERS
Four Year Private Liberal Arts College/University Column
•  "ARE YOU THE ESL PERSON?": FIRST IMPRESSIONS AS AN L2 LIAISON
TESOL 2011 Updates
•  TESOL 2011: SECOND LANGUAGE WRITING IS HIGHLIGHTED SESSIONS
•  SPECIAL EVENT: FRIENDS OF SECOND LANGUAGE WRITING TO GATHER IN NEW ORLEANS
Announcements and Information
•  SYMPOSIUM ON SECOND LANGUAGE WRITING: 2011 PREVIEW
ABOUT THIS MEMBER COMMUNITY
•  SECOND LANGUAGE WRITING IS CONTACT INFORMATION
SLWIS Submissions
•  SLW NEWS: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
•  BOOK REVIEW POLICY
•  CALL COLUMN SUBMISSIONS
•  EFL COLUMN SUBMISSIONS
•  SUBMISSIONS FOR THE FOUR-YEAR, PRIVATE LIBERAL-ARTS COLLEGES/UNIVERSITIES COLUMN

 

CALL COLUMN SUBMISSIONS

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.