SLWIS Newsletter - March 2012 (Plain Text Version)

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In this issue:
Leadership Updates
•  LETTER FROM THE CHAIR
•  LETTER FROM THE EDITORS
ARTICLES
•  CODE MESHING IN DIGITAL NARRATIVES: AN EFFECTIVE RHETORICAL STRATEGY FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS
•  ACTION RESEARCH FOR INFORMED FEEDBACK PRACTICE
•  BEST PRACTICES AND INCREASING THE ACCESSIBILITY OF WRITING INSTRUCTION FOR ESL STUDENTS
•  THE DISCOURSE OF CIVILITY AND INCIVILITY:USING HISTORICAL PRAGMATICS AND PERIOD FILM IN WRITING EDUCATION
BRIEF REPORTS
•  GOING BEYOND GRAMMAR-BASED FEEDBACK IN WRITING CLASSROOMS: A SMALL-SCALE STUDY OF THREE EFL TEACHERS
•  MOVING BEYOND THE TEMPTING TEMPLATE IN WRITING TEST PREP COURSES
TESOL 2012 Preview
•  SLWIS SPECIAL SESSIONS AT TESOL 2012
•  TESOL 2012: SESSIONS RELATED TO SECOND LANGUAGE WRITING
ABOUT THIS MEMBER COMMUNITY
•  SECOND LANGUAGE WRITING IS CONTACT INFORMATION
•  SLW NEWS: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

 

SLW NEWS: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

SLW News is soliciting articles on second language writing theory, research, and pedagogy in all ESL/EFL settings.

SLW News welcomes articles that focus on L2 writers and characteristics and text features, classroom materials and practices, placement and assessment issues, writing program administration, teacher development, and other related areas. SLW News encourages submissions related to any educational setting, especially traditionally underrepresented contexts (preK through 12, two-year colleges, community programs, international K-12 schools, etc.). In light of the newsletter’s electronic format, authors are encouraged to include hyperlinks.

DEADLINES

30 June for the August/September issue and 31 December for the February issue.

GENERAL SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Articles should

  • be no longer than 1,500 words
  • include a 50-word (maximum 500 characters) abstract and 2- to 3-sentence author biography
  • contain no more than five citations
  • follow the style guidelines in the sixth edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th Edition (APA style)
  • be in MS Word (.doc(x)) or rich text (.rtf) format

All tables, graphs, and other images should be submitted as separate jpg files. Please direct your submissions and questions to Margi Wald, SLW News Managing Editor.

Please use “SLW News Submission” in the subject line of your e-mail. See below for more information concerning book reviews and submissions related to specific topics and contexts.

BOOK REVIEW POLICY

SLW News welcomes reviews of teacher resource books and student texts dealing with second language writing, teaching, research, and administration. Anyone interested in writing a review for SLW News may choose a recently published book in the field and contact the editor for approval and review copies. Reviews will be considered for publication based on the quality of the reviewer’s evaluation and description of the book, and the book’s relevance and importance to the field.

Reviews should

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

ACTION RESEARCH PROJECTS

SLW News welcomes summaries of classroom-based action research projects. Submissions should include a discussion of the following items:

  • Statement of the Problem
  • Research Design
  • Proposed Solutions
  • Analysis of Results
  • Final Reflections

Please include any relevant classroom materials that emerged from the research.

CALL 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).

EFL SUBMISSIONS

SLW News welcomes submissions focusing on EFL contexts. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Statements of instructional problems
  • Summary of research
  • Literature review with pedagogical implications
  • Book/media review
  • Lesson plans
  • Handouts and activity sheets
  • Proposed joint research projects

In order to ensure diversity of interest and coverage of as many areas of instruction in the field of EFL writing as possible, SLW News encourages submissions on the following themes:

  • University writing classrooms
  • PreK-12 writing instruction
  • Learner communities in the writing classroom
  • Computer and the Internet in the writing classroom
  • Writing for tests (TOEFL and IELTS)
  • Technical writing as a genre in the EFL context
  • EFL writing instructors’ professional development