CALL Newsletter - March 2016 (Plain Text Version)

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In this issue:
LEADERSHIP UPDATES
•  LETTER FROM THE CHAIR-ELECT
•  LETTER FROM THE CHAIR
•  LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
ARTICLES
•  CORPUS-BASED TASKS FOR EXTENDED LEARNING
•  HELPING YOUR STUDENTS "ESCAPE THE ROOM"
•  SOCIAL MEDIA: THE METAMORPHOSIS TO BRAVE NEW TEACHERS AND STUDENTS
•  ASIACALL 2015 CONFERENCE REPORT
•  ALL ABOARD FOR THE ELECTRONIC VILLAGE. . .ONLINE!
•  MAKING CONNECTIONS
ABOUT THIS COMMUNITY
•  CALL FOR ARTICLES
•  CALL-IS LEADERSHIP TEAM

 

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, for example, wild bergamot.
  11. Have permissions if you use webpage screenshots of webpages, if permissions are required,  you will be sent the proper release form. Please allow time for the forms to be sent to the webpage developers and returned.
  12. 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, typically 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.