<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Greetings Francis,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Please repost in each subsequent list till mid-January 2016 if possible. Thank you! Ari</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><b><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">Call for Chapters!</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><b><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">Early Writing in Indigenous
Languages [Working Title]</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">The lion’s share of the world’s living languages face a bleak
future. A growing consensus of linguists predicts that by the close of the 21<sup>st</sup> century
50-90% will disappear. Efforts to reverse this trend are underway worldwide.
The purpose of this edited volume is to provide case studies of revitalization
efforts at schooling early writing among children between approx. 3 and 12
years in lesser-known languages from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, the
Americas, and the Pacific. </span><span style="font-family:Arial"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Prospective
authors are invited to submit a 500 word abstract and a short list of resources
about the selected language and culture in APA style as well as the following
information: Your full name in the order you might wish it to appear in a
publication, the name of your institution or tribal affiliation, your full
office or home address, your email, and your mobile phone number (with country
code). Email Abstract to: </span><a href="mailto:Arieh.Sherris@gmail.com"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Arieh.Sherris@gmail.com</span></a><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""> with the following in the subject line:
EARLY WRITING IN INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES ABSTRACT. Abstracts are due by January
15, 2016, but a call will remain open until 12-15 excellent abstracts are
received. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">First drafts of future
papers (7000-9000 words, not including bibliography) from selected abstracts
would be require within 5-months of notification that your abstract has been
accepted. Papers will go through double blind review. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">In the interest
of clarity and possible future comparative study, your chapter, if asked to
write one, will require the following structure:</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">1.<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Brief
introduction/rationale for paper</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">2.<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Brief
history of indigenous culture & people</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">3.<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Brief
description of the structure of the language</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">4.<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Description
of revitalization efforts</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">5.<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Description
of school and instructional writing practices</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">6.<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Description
of early writing </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">7.<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">A
discussion exploring writing development with writing samples from children;
samples could be drawn from a subset of ages anywhere between 3 and 12 years of
age</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">8.<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Promising exploratory directions for
future revitalization efforts with respect to writing your language</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">9.<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Resources (APA style)</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Editor</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">Ari Sherris is Visiting
Fulbright Scholar (2015-16) at the University Education, Winneba, Ghana and
Assistant Professor of Bilingual Education at Texas A&M
University-Kingsville. His research explores the intersection of oracy,
literacy, and language revitalization. His publications appear in <i>Classroom Discourse, Intercultural
Education, the International Review of Education (UNESCO), the Journal of
Multilingual and Multicultural Development</i>, and <i>Pedagogies: An International Journal</i>. His practitioner digests for
language teachers appear with the Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington,
D.C. His book <i>Language Endangerment:
Disappearing Metaphors and Shifting Conceptualizations</i> (2015) is published
with John Benjamins. </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"></span></p>
</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Ari Sherris</div><div dir="ltr">UEW J.W. Fulbright Visiting Scholar in Residence, Ghana</div><div dir="ltr">TAMUK Assistant Professor of Bilingual Education<br><div><a href="https://tamuk.academia.edu/AriSherris" target="_blank">https://tamuk.academia.edu/AriSherris</a> <br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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