CALL Newsletter - March 2015 (Plain Text Version)

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In this issue:
LEADERSHIP UPDATES
•  LETTER FROM THE CHAIR-ELECT
•  LETTER FROM THE INCOMING CHAIR-ELECT
•  LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
ARTICLES
•  GOOGLE, A WORLD OF APPS
•  STUDENT JOURNALING WITH PENZU
•  USING AUGMENTED REALITY TO ENGAGE THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNER
•  TESOL'S PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES OF ONLINE TEACHING CERTIFICATE PROGRAM: A VERY ENJOYABLE AND ENRICHING OPPORTUNITY
•  USING THE CORPUS OF CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN ENGLISH TO LEARN ABOUT NEAR SYNONYMS: COLLOCATIONS
•  MAKING CONNECTIONS
ABOUT THIS COMMUNITY
•  CALL FOR ARTICLES
•  LEADERSHIP FACES

 

ABOUT THIS COMMUNITY

CALL FOR ARTICLES

The CALL IS e-newsletter, on CALL, is soliciting articles on any of the various aspects of teaching and tutoring pronunciation, oral skills, and listening that apply to, focus on, or assess ESL/EFL pedagogy, second language acquisition, accent addition/reduction, and other related research. We also solicit book reviews for both classroom and methodology texts. Teaching tips, tutoring tips, and classroom strategies are also acceptable submissions.

GENERAL SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Articles should

  1. Have a title (written in ALL CAPS)
  2. Have the author’s name, email, affiliation, city, country (in that order)
  3. 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.
  4. Have a 50-word teaser for the newsletter homepage.
  5. Have between 800 and 1,500 words (including tables).
  6. Have no more than five citations.
  7. Have a 2- to 3-sentence author biography.
  8. Follow the style guidelines in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th Edition (APA style).
  9. Be in MS Word (.docx) or rich text (.rtf) format
  10. 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

    Book reviews of between 300 and 500 words should provide the reviewer's analysis of books that are relevant to the practice and theory of CALL.

    The CALL- IS Newsletter is published twice a year—in February/March and July/August. The deadline for the February/ March edition is newsletter is 20 January 2015, and the deadline for the July/ August edition is 30 June 2015. Please send your contributions, proposals and suggestions to Larry Udry.