CALL Newsletter - September 2017 (Plain Text Version)

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In this issue:
LEADERSHIP UPDATES
•  LETTER FROM THE CHAIR
•  LETTER FROM THE PAST CHAIR
•  A BRIEF HISTORY OF CALL-IS WEBCASTING IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM
ARTICLES
•  BUILDING KNOWLEDGE OF ACADEMIC WORDS, COLLOCATIONS, AND LEXICAL BUNDLES THROUGH INTERACTIVE CORPUS PLATFORMS
•  THE USE OF POWERPOINT IN INTERPRETING GRAPHS
•  TARGETING ANXIETY AND PROMOTING MOTIVATION IN STUDENT PRESENTATIONS
EXTRA CATEGORY
•  TEACHER DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP FOR TECHNOLOGY-ENHANCED LEARNING
•  YOUGLISH: USING AUTHENTIC ENGLISH VIDEOS FOR PRONUNCIATION AND PRESENTATION PRACTICE
ABOUT THIS COMMUNITY
•  MAKING CONNECTIONS
•  CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

 

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS


The CALL- IS newsletter, On CALL, encourages submission of many types of articles related to computer-assisted language learning (CALL): software; website or book reviews; announcements; and reports on conferences, presentations, or webcasts that you might have participated in. If you have suggestions, ideas, and/ or questions, send them to Larry Udry.

General Submission Guidelines

Articles should

  1. have a title (written in ALL CAPS);

  2. list a byline with the author’s name hyperlinked to an email address, affiliation, city, and country (in that order);

  3. include a 2- to 3-sentence (or fewer) teaser for the newsletter homepage;

  4. be no longer than 1,750 words (includes bylines, teasers, main text, tables, and author bios; articles longer than 1,750 can be included, but will not be copyedited);

  5. contain no more than five citations;

  6. include a 2- to 3-sentence author biography at the end of the article;

  7. follow the style guidelines in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th Edition (APA style);

  8. be in .doc, .docx, .rtf, or .txt format (all figures, graphs, and other images should be sent in separate jpg files);

  9. include an author photo (.jpg; head and shoulder shot; width = 90px, height = 120px; clear, clean, professional, appropriate to the article; preferably including the person's name who took the shot);

  10. have hyperlinks that have meaningful URLs (e.g., here);

  11. accurately and completely credit sources, including students (Do not take online content, including photos, from other websites without attribution. Contact me for the permission forms); and

  12. include advanced written permission for borrowed material (including photos).

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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.