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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Greetings Francis! Please repost this. If possible each Edling till March 15, 2016. Thank you! --Ari</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><b>Extended Call for
Chapters!</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><b>Early Writing in
Indigenous Languages [Working Title]</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">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 worldwide (e.g., from Africa, Asia, Australia,
Europe, the Americas, and the Pacific). </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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). Please include all of the requested information in one doc or docx. Email Abstract to: <a href="mailto:Arieh.Sherris@gmail.com">Arieh.Sherris@gmail.com</a> with the following in the
subject line: EARLY WRITING IN INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES ABSTRACT. Abstracts are due
by March 15, 2016, but a call will remain open until 12-15 excellent abstracts
are received. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">First
drafts of future papers (7000-9000 words, not including bibliography) from
selected abstracts would be require within approx. 5-months of notification
that your abstract has been accepted. Papers will go through double blind
review. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In the
interest of clarity and possible future comparative study, your chapter, if
asked to write one, will require the following structure:</p>
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Brief introduction/rationale for paper</p>
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Brief history of indigenous culture & people</p>
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Brief description of the structure of the language</p>
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Description of revitalization efforts</p>
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Description of school context</p>
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Description of instructional writing practices</p>
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Description & discussion of early writing <span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">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></p>
<p class="">8. Promising exploratory directions for
future revitalization efforts with respect to writing your language</p>
<p class="">9. Resources (APA style)</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b>Editor</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">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 style="font-size:11pt"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><br></span></p>
</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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