CALL Newsletter - September 2015 (Plain Text Version)

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In this issue:
LEADERSHIP UPDATES
•  TOUCHSTONES AND TURNING POINTS: THE CALL-IS IN TESOL'S GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY
•  HOW THE TESOL CALL INTEREST SECTION BEGAN (UPDATED)
•  LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
ARTICLES
•  LANGUAGE AND INTERCULTURAL LEARNING THROUGH A TELE-COLLABORATIVE PROJECT BETWEEN AMERICAN AND SPANISH UNIVERSITIES: FROM STUDENTS' PERSPECTIVES
•  TOP 10 USES OF A PRIVATE FACEBOOK GROUP FOR YOUR STUDENTS
•  WHY NOT TEACH PREZI FOR LISTENING AND SPEAKING?
•  PRINCIPLES FOR EFFECTIVE ONLINE TEACHING
•  THE JAPAN ASSOCIATION FOR LANGUAGE TEACHING CALL 2015 CONFERENCE REPORT
EXTRA CATEGORIES
•  MAKING CONNECTIONS
ABOUT THIS COMMUNITY
•  CALL FOR ARTICLES
•  ABOUT THIS COMMUNITY

 

ABOUT THIS COMMUNITY

CALL FOR ARTICLES


The CALL- IS Newsletter, On CALL, encourages submission of many types of articles related to CALL: software, website or book reviews, announcements, reports on conferences, presentations or webcasts that you might have participated in. If you have suggestions, ideas, or questions, send them to Larry Udry.

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 px 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. Have hyperlinks that have meaningful urls.
  11. Have charts, graphs, audio files, video files, and images that enhance 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.

We like to publish the newsletter twice a year, in February/March and July/August. To that end, the deadline for the February/March newsletter is 20 February, and the deadline for the July/August edition is 30 June. Please send your contributions to Larry Udry.