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<p align="center" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;"><b>Call for Papers, Special Issue </b></span></p>
<p class="elementToProof" align="center" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Teaching Grammar in the 21<sup>st</sup> Century: Revisiting the Old and Envisioning the New </b></span></p>
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<p class="elementToProof" align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Leila Ranta and Majid Nikouee, University of Alberta </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Grammar instruction is widely acknowledged as an integral component of teaching English as a second or additional language (hereafter,
L2) to adult learners. For example, the best practices guidelines developed by Alberta's Teachers of English as a Second Language (ATESL, 2022) underscore the importance of teachers' having a profound understanding of English grammar as well as the pedagogical
skills necessary to impart this knowledge. In both areas, teachers can benefit from the technical knowledge that comes from the scholarship of grammatical description by linguists and from the empirical investigation into L2 grammar learning by researchers
in the field of instructed second language acquisition (ISLA). The large body of literature by ISLA researchers addresses many aspects of grammar pedagogy under different labels such as focus on form, consciousness-raising, language awareness, and form-focused
instruction (FFI). These terms are preferred by ISLA scholars to avoid some of the negative associations that teachers have with traditional grammar teaching (e.g., ‘drill and kill’). Furthermore, FFI is a useful general term to refer to any instruction where
attention is directed to the target language, whether at the phonological, grammatical, pragmatic, or other levels of analysis. The use of such terminology, however, may make it harder for practitioners to see the relevance of ideas from the literature to
their teaching. </span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Although several landmark studies of FFI have been conducted in Canada, especially in French immersion (e.g., Harley, 1989) and
in primary-level ESL classes in Quebec (e.g., White, Spada, Lightbown, & Ranta, 1991), there has yet to be a scholarly investigation and critical discussion of grammar teaching in Canada<i>.
</i>We believe that the <i>TESL Canada Journal</i> can support Canadian educators by offering pedagogical guidance beyond what grammar textbooks provide implicitly and explicitly. To serve this support role, scholarly articles need to be relevant to the practical
concerns of adult ESL instructors in Canada such as, for example, the thorny question of the effective integration of grammar teaching into lessons based on the Canadian Language Benchmarks. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">We invite submissions addressing a wide range of topics related to grammar teaching such as, but
not limited to, the following:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Descriptive studies of current practices (e.g., surveys; observational studies)</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></li><li style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Analysis of published grammar materials
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></li><li style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Rationale for and illustration of innovative pedagogical techniques</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></li><li style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Reports of experimental FFI studies</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></li><li style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Systematic literature reviews or meta-analyses
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></li><li style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Theoretical discussions</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></li><li style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Cross-context comparisons (e.g., K-12 to adult ESL or vice-versa; EFL to ESL; ideas from studies of other languages)</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></li><li style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Teacher education and professional development issues relating to teaching grammar</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></li><li style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Personal perspectives on teaching grammar in different contexts (e.g., lower proficiency or literacy learners; English for academic purposes) or descriptions of grammar teaching
activities that the writer has consistently had success with. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></li></ul>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">This special issue of
<i>TESL Canada Journal</i> will publish “Full-length Research Articles”, “In the Classroom” and “Perspectives” papers. Please refer to the author guidelines for more information about the length and expected content of these different types of submission:
<a href="http://journals.sfu.ca/tesl/index.php/tesl/about/submissions#authorGuidelines" id="OWAc5dd4a1f-a3e3-fc6e-8caf-13b3fedf8ee6" class="OWAAutoLink" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">
http://journals.sfu.ca/tesl/index.php/tesl/about/submissions#authorGuidelines</a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Interested authors are invited to submit a 300-word abstract (excluding references) to </span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: blue;">teslcanadajournal@tesl.ca
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">by
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; background-color: yellow;"><b>January 31st, 2024</b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">. Notice of acceptance will
be emailed in <b>February</b>. Full manuscripts are due <b>May 1<sup>st</sup>, 2024</b>, and will be subject to a double-blind review process. The special issue will be published in
<b>Winter 2024</b>. </span></p>
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<p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">If you have any questions about this special issue, please contact Majid Nikouee at
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="mailto:nikouee@ualberta.ca" id="OWAc5a33b0e-0055-357a-6ecd-8b8c4ef8a150" class="OWAAutoLink" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">nikouee@ualberta.ca</a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;"> </span></p>
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<p align="center" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;"><b>References </b></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: white;">Harley, B. (1989b). Functional grammar in French immersion:
A classroom experiment. <i>Applied Linguistics</i>, <i>10</i>(3), 331–359. </span>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white;"><a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/10.3.331" id="OWAd8ce891d-d07f-c837-a799-bf631454b0be" class="OWAAutoLink" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/10.3.331</a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: white;"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Urbiztondo-Cervera, H. & Gnida S. (2022).
<i>ATESL best practices for adult EAL and LINC programming in Alberta</i>. ATESL.
<a href="https://www.atesl.ca/resources/best-practices-adult-eal-and-linc-programming-alberta/" id="OWA52b2fb2c-268f-3a35-9ed6-31fae84d333b" class="OWAAutoLink" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">
https://www.atesl.ca/resources/best-practices-adult-eal-and-linc-programming-alberta/</a> </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">White, L., Spada, N., Lightbown, P.M., & Ranta, L. (1991). Input enhancement and L2 question formation.
<i>Applied Linguistics</i>, <i>12</i>, 416</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: white;">–</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">432.
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/12.4.416" id="OWAe5d0740e-a9a1-8d8e-b00c-48f4f18016d3" class="OWAAutoLink" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">
https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/12.4.416</a> </span></p>
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