HEIS Newsletter - December 2014 (Plain Text Version)

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In this issue:
LEADERSHIP UPDATES
•  LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
•  MESSAGE FROM THE CO-CHAIRS
ARTICLES
•  PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE
•  ELECTRONIC VILLAGE ONLINE SESSION: "DREAM ACT: WHAT TEACHERS CAN DO"
BOOK REVIEWS
•  CRITICAL THEORY IN PRACTICE FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING
•  SUPPLEMENTING IN OR OUT OF THE CLASSROOM WITH ONLINE TEXTBOOK COMPONENTS
COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY
•  PROJECT-BASED LANGUAGE LEARNING: PREPARING IEP STUDENTS FOR STEM FIELDS
ABOUT THIS COMMUNITY
•  ABOUT THIS COMMUNITY: HIGHER EDUCATION INTEREST SECTION
•  CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
•  CALL FOR BOOK REVIEW SUBMISSIONS
•  CALL FOR COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY SUBMISSIONS

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Contribute an article for the February-March 2015 issue!

HEIS News welcomes articles that apply to classroom situations and that focus on ESL/EFL pedagogy, second language acquisition, academic literacy, language assessment, applied socio- and psycholinguistics, advocacy, administration, and other related areas. Given the newsletter's electronic format, authors are encouraged to include hyperlinks.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Full-length articles and brief reports should

• be no longer than 1,500 words
• include a 50-word (500 characters or fewer) abstract
• include a 75- to 100-word bio of the author
• contain no more than five citations
• 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 an author headshot

Please direct submissions and questions to Maria Ammar.

Note: It is not necessary to have an article complete and ready for submission to contact us! Please feel free to get in touch at any stage of the process. We are happy to answer any questions and work with you in developing or refining a topic.

The deadline for submissions to HEIS February-March 2015 is 31 January 2015.