HEIS Newsletter - March 2012 (Plain Text Version)

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In this issue:
Leadership Update
•  LETTER FROM THE CHAIR
ARTICLES
•  MORE THAN PLEASE AND THANK YOU: TEACHING POLITENESS STRATEGIES
•  TRANSITIONING TO ONLINE PLACEMENT TESTING AT A LARGE UNIVERSITY
BOOK REVIEWS
•  BEYOND MUSIC AND LITERATURE: TOUCHING UPON ALL ASPECTS OF AMERICAN CULTURE
•  NATURALIZATION AT ALL LEVELS OF ENGLISH
Computer Technology
•  PERSONAL LEARNING NETWORK/PERSONAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT (PLN/PLE) FOR LANGUAGE TEACHING AND LEARNING
About This Community
•  TESOL ESL IN HIGHER EDUCATION INTEREST SECTION
•  CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
•  CALL FOR BOOK REVIEW SUBMISSIONS
•  CALL FOR COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY SUBMISSIONS

CALL FOR BOOK REVIEW SUBMISSIONS

Book reviews are always a very popular feature of the newsletter. Book review guidelines are below. To request or suggest a book for review and for details, including submission deadlines, please contact Maria Ammar.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

HEIS News welcomes reviews of scholarly books and textbooks dealing with English teaching, applied linguistics, second language acquisition, language assessment, or other disciplines as they relate to ESL or TESL instruction in higher education settings. Anyone interested in writing a review for HEIS News may choose a recent book in the field and contact the editor for approval. Reviews will be considered for publication based on the quality of the reviewer’s evaluation and description of the book, and the book’s relevance and importance to the field.

Reviews should

• be 600-900 words in length
• include a 50-word (500 character or fewer) abstract
• include a 75- to 100-word bio of the reviewer
• follow the style guidelines in the Publications Manual of the American Psychological Association, Sixth Edition (APA Manual)
• be in MS Word (.doc or .docx) or rich-text (.rtf) format
• include a headshot