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In this issue:
LEADERSHIP UPDATES
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LETTER FROM THE CHAIR
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ABOUT THIS ISSUE
ARTICLES
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WAYNE WRIGHT ON THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF BILINGUAL EDUCATION: AN INTERVIEW
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SONIA NIETO ON THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF BILINGUAL EDUCATION: AN INTERVIEW
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DAVID ROGERS ON THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF BILINGUAL EDUCATION: AN INTERVIEW
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KATE MENKEN ON THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF BILINGUAL EDUCATION: AN INTERVIEW
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OFELIA GARCIA ON THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF BILINGUAL EDUCATION: AN INTERVIEW
ABOUT THIS COMMUNITY
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BILINGUAL EDUCATION INTEREST SECTION (BEIS)
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2016 CALL FOR MANUSCRIPTS: BILINGUAL BASICS
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2016 CALL FOR MANUSCRIPTS: BILINGUAL BASICS
Special Topic Issue:
Voices From the Field: Tensions and Promises in
Assessment and Instruction of Bilingual Students
Editors
Andrés
Ramírez, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Ratón, Florida,
USA
Alsu
Gilmetdinova, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana,
USA
Bilingual Basics is a publication of
Bilingual Education Interest Section of TESOL. Its audience includes
teachers, teacher trainers, students, and researchers in the fields of
bilingual education and TESOL. Bilingual Basics has
an international scope and invites teachers and scholars from around the
world to read and contribute to the body of knowledge on bilingualism
and bilingual education.
Manuscripts for the 2016 special issue should address tensions
and/or promises related to the education and assessment of emergent to
advanced bilinguals in bilingual or English-only programs. This is an
important topic in an era of accountability and standardization. Far too
little attention has been paid to the nature of assessments of
bilingual and multilingual students, despite the increasing pressures of
high-stakes assessment on all stakeholders, but especially on teachers
and their students. We look forward to hearing voices of teachers and
educators who have been affected by the numerous changes in types,
quality, and forms of assessment placed upon them by educational reforms. Below are some guiding
questions to consider for framing manuscripts for this issue.
Manuscripts in languages other than English may be submitted, albeit
their acceptance is subject to the availability of multilingual
reviewers.
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What are your views of the tensions and/or promises of current
instructional changes and assessment schemes taking place in the
education of emergent to advanced bilinguals?
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What are your personal stories regarding the impact of these changes on students and schools?
- What are your views about the impact of national and/or
federal mandates on both speakers of minority and indigenous languages,
as well as sign languages?
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How can TESOL better support teachers and students when it
comes to fair, appropriate and meaningful assessment?
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How can current scholarly knowledge on language development
and learning, as well as research-based pedagogical practices, be used
to promote language policies and practices and assessment schemes that
create educational environments of excellence for immigrant and language
minority students?
The deadline for submissions is 15 January 2016. Manuscripts
should follow the standard submission guidelines (below). Submissions may be emailed to ramirezj@fau.edu and alsurgf@gmail.com.
GENERAL SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Articles should
- Have a title (written in ALL CAPS)
- Have the author’s name, email, affiliation, city, country (in that order)
- Have an author photo (jpeg format); a head and shoulder shot
(optional but encouraged!), clear, 120 px height max, 160 p total,
preferably including the person's name who took the shot.
- Have a 50-word teaser for the newsletter homepage.
- Have between 800 and 1,500 words (including tables).
- Have no more than five citations.
- Have a 2- to 3-sentence author biography.
- Follow the style guidelines in the Publication
Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th Edition
(APA style).
- Be in MS Word (.docx) or rich text (.rtf) format
- All figures, graphs, and other images should be sent in
separate jpg files. If the author includes a photo, it must be:
- a head and shoulder shot
- a jpg
- width = 120px height = 160px
- clear, clean, professional, appropriate to the article
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