<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Greetings! I have extended the call for abstracts through March 15. Please repost on Edling often until then, if possible! Thank you, Ari</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><b><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">Extended Call for Chapters!</span></b><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background-image: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:'Times New Roman'"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image: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 worldwide (e.g., from Africa, Asia, Australia,
Europe, the Americas, and the Pacific). </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). Please include all of the requested information in one doc or docx. 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 March 15,
2016, but a call will remain open until 12-15 excellent abstracts are received.
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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 approx. 5-months of notification that your abstract has
been accepted. Papers will go through double blind review. </span></p>
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<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=""><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">1.
Brief introduction/rationale for paper</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">2.
Brief history of indigenous culture & people</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">3.
Brief description of the structure of the language</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">4.
Description of revitalization efforts</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">5.
Description of school context</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">6.
Description of instructional writing practices</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">7.
Description & discussion of early writing </span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';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><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'"></span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">8. Promising exploratory directions
for future revitalization efforts with respect to writing your language</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">9. Resources (APA style)</span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">Editor</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="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></p><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><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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