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Apologies for any cross-posting. The following call for papers may be of interest to some Ed-Ling members. </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
Thank you.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Kind regards,</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Prithvi.</div>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:20pt;font-family:'Segoe UI',sans-serif;color:rgb(50,87,107)">Call for Papers, Journal of NELTA 2013</span></b></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Lucida Grande'"> </span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">CALL FOR PAPERS FOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE JOURNAL OF NELTA </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Lucida Grande'"> </span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Dear All</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Lucida Grande'"></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt">First published in 1996, the Journal of NELTA is a premiere publication of Nepal English Language Teachers’ Association (NELTA). This journal has been an integral part of NELTA’s mission for ‘enhancing the quality of English language teaching and learning through professional networking, supporting and collaboration’. It is also a means towards achieving NELTA’s goal of providing a ‘forum for exchanges of ideas and experiences at national, regional and international levels’. </span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">The editorial board would like to invite contributions for the 2013 issue of the journal. We encourage contributors to make their work relevant to classroom teaching as well as to serve the larger purpose of creating or promoting ELT discourses at local, national, and regional contexts. Contributions that deal with ELT theories and methods will serve the professional community only to the extent that they are situated in the authors' own practices and/or in the contemporary educational and social contexts. The objective of this volume is to gather the voices of teachers, scholars, and educationists who are best able to define and advance the conversation and practice of ELT. </span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Here are some broad areas that contributors can consider for situating or relating their article: </span></p>
<ul type="disc" style="margin-top:0cm"><li style="margin-left:15px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Innovative practice</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">: works that describe and explore how authors have developed or adapted any innovative methods or practices in ELT</span></li>
<li style="margin-left:15px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Innovative theory</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">: works that discuss or interpret ELT theory critically from local/regional perspectives,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Lucida Grande'"></span></li>
<li style="margin-left:15px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Establishing a context</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">: works that raise new issues of ELT that deserve the attention of the professional community, government, or society, (e.g. : 'Reconceptualizing Teacher Education in Nepal')</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Lucida Grande'"></span></li>
<li style="margin-left:15px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Success story</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">: scholarly articles that narrate and reflect on successful implementation of ELT theory, method, or practice,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Lucida Grande'"></span></li>
<li style="margin-left:15px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Any other ELT subjects</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> that you deem relevant to ELT professional community. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Lucida Grande'"></span></li>
</ul><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Articles might fall under following genres or types:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"></span></p>
<ul type="disc" style="margin-top:0cm"><li style="margin-left:15px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Data-based empirical studies</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">: articles based on the field work on issues of ELT, language education, teacher development or training, language testing and other relevant issues of language teaching. Because local practices have been relatively little researched outside the university context, scholarship that represents this area will get high priority for the publication.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Lucida Grande'"></span></li>
<li style="margin-left:15px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Knowledge-based perspectives</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">: articles that articulate a comprehensive and critical discussion of innovative ELT concepts. Such articles must present the author's clear voice on the perspective that is of interest to the readers in Nepal.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Lucida Grande'"></span></li>
<li style="margin-left:15px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Action research and teacher reflections</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">: articles coming directly out of the classroom teaching or teacher's own reflection of his/her teaching. These can be stories in the form of narrative descriptions or they can follow the typical format of cyclical action research reports.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Lucida Grande'"></span></li>
<li style="margin-left:15px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Articles on classroom practice</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">: articles that are directly useful for teachers in the classroom e.g., tips for teaching particular skills/aspects of language, lesson plans, tasks for teaching poetry.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Lucida Grande'"></span></li>
<li style="margin-left:15px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Book reviews</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">: review of recently published ELT books that are of professional significance to the readers. Reviews should generally provide a short introduction of the author and the purpose of the book, its descriptive summary, followed by its evaluative comments and its significance to the researchers and practitioners in Nepal. Reviews should not exceed 1,500 words including references.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Lucida Grande'"></span></li>
</ul><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Submissions must strictly follow the guidelines provided herewith. Please take full advantage of the guidelines which also include details of the publication process. Manuscript must be submitted as an email attachment accompanied by a well-written cover letter to the editorial address: <a href="mailto:neltajournal@gmail.com" target="_blank">neltajournal@gmail.com</a> or </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial"><a href="mailto:neltaeditorialboard@gmail.com" target="_blank">neltaeditorialboard@gmail.com</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">. Cover letter email will include author's full name, institutional affiliation, title of the paper, and any other pertinent information you might want to include.<i> </i></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Please feel free to forward this email to colleagues or to share it on appropriate mailing lists. </span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION IS SEPTEMBER 30, 2013. </span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Detailed submission guidelines can be found online here: <a href="http://bit.ly/15rxPsS" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/15rxPsS</a></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">All enquiries and communication related to the articles for the Journal of NELTA should be made to:<a href="mailto:neltajournal@gmail.com" target="_blank">neltajournal@gmail.com</a> or </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial"><a href="mailto:neltaeditorialboard@gmail.com" target="_blank">neltaeditorialboard@gmail.com</a></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Lucida Grande'"> </span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">All the best,</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Dr Prithvi Shrestha, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of NELTA</span></p></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>
<br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr">Dr Prithvi Shrestha<br>Lecturer in ELT | Department of Languages<br>Faculty of Education and Language Studies | The Open University | Milton Keynes MK7 6AA<br>United Kingdom<br>Direct line: +44(0) 1908 654265<br>
Work details: <a href="http://fels-staff.open.ac.uk/p.n.shrestha" target="_blank">http://fels-staff.open.ac.uk/p.n.shrestha</a> <br>Projects: English in Action (Bangladesh), TESS-India (India), Formative Assessment (UK)<br>
Research: <a href="http://oro.open.ac.uk/view/person/pns52.html" target="_blank">http://oro.open.ac.uk/view/person/pns52.html</a> <div>Academia.edu: <a href="http://open.academia.edu/PrithviShrestha" target="_blank">http://open.academia.edu/PrithviShrestha</a> </div>
<div>Joint Coordinator, IATEFL ESP SIG: <a href="http://semihirfaner.wix.com/english-for-academic" target="_blank">http://semihirfaner.wix.com/english-for-academic</a> </div><div>Editor-in-Chief: Journal of NELTA </div></div>
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