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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><b><span style="font-family:'Arial Unicode MS'">Extended Call for
Chapters!</span></b><span style="font-family:'Arial Unicode MS'"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><b><span style="font-family:'Arial Unicode MS'">Early Writing in
Indigenous Languages [Working Title]</span></b><span style="font-family:'Arial Unicode MS'"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:'Arial Unicode MS'">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:'Arial Unicode MS'">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" target="_blank">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. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Arial Unicode MS'">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:'Arial Unicode MS'">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><span style="font-family:'Arial Unicode MS'">1.
Brief introduction/rationale for paper</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'Arial Unicode MS'">2.
Brief history of indigenous culture & people</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'Arial Unicode MS'">3.
Brief description of the structure of the language</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'Arial Unicode MS'">4.
Description of revitalization efforts</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'Arial Unicode MS'">5.
Description of school context</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'Arial Unicode MS'">6.
Description of instructional writing practices</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'Arial Unicode MS'">7.
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></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'Arial Unicode MS'">8.
Promising exploratory directions for future revitalization efforts with respect
to writing your language</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'Arial Unicode MS'">9.
Resources (APA style)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-family:'Arial Unicode MS'">Editor</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Arial Unicode MS'">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><div><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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