<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Extended Call for Chapters!</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Early Writing in Indigenous Languages [Working Title]</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">The lion's share of the world's living languages face a bleak future. A</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">growing consensus of linguists predicts that by the close of the 21st century</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">50-90% will disappear. Efforts to reverse this trend are underway</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">worldwide. The purpose of this edited volume is to provide case studies of</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">revitalization efforts at schooling early writing among children between</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">approx. 3 and 12 years in lesser-known languages worldwide (e.g., from</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, the Americas, and the Pacific).</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Prospective authors are invited to submit a 500 word abstract and a short</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">list of resources about the selected language and culture in APA style as</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">well as the following information: Your full name in the order you might</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">wish it to appear in a publication, the name of your institution or tribal</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">affiliation, your full office or home address, your email, and your mobile</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">phone number (with country code). Please include all of the requested</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">information in one doc or docx. Email Abstract to:</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="mailto:Arieh.Sherris@gmail.com" style="font-size:12.8px">Arieh.Sherris@gmail.com</a><span style="font-size:12.8px"> with</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">the following in the subject line: EARLY WRITING IN INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">ABSTRACT. Abstracts are due by </span><span class="" tabindex="0" style="font-size:12.8px"><span class="">March 15, 2016</span></span><span style="font-size:12.8px">, but a call will remain open</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">until 12-15 excellent abstracts are received.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">First drafts of future papers (7000-9000 words, not including bibliography)</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">from selected abstracts would be require within approx. 5-months of</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">notification that your abstract has been accepted. Papers will go through</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">double blind review.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">In the interest of clarity and possible future comparative study, your</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">chapter, if asked to write one, will require the following structure:</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">1. Brief introduction/rationale for paper</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">2. Brief history of indigenous culture & people</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">3. Brief description of the structure of the language</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">4. Description of revitalization efforts</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">5. Description of school context</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">6. Description of instructional writing practices</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">7. Description & discussion of early writing exploring writing development</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">with writing samples from children; samples could be drawn from a subset of</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">ages anywhere between 3 and 12 years of age</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">8. Promising exploratory directions for future revitalization efforts with</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">respect to writing your language</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">9. Resources (APA style)</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Editor</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Ari Sherris is Visiting Fulbright Scholar (2015-16) at the University</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Education, Winneba, Ghana and Assistant Professor of Bilingual Education at</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Texas A&M University-Kingsville. His research explores the intersection of</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">oracy, literacy, and language revitalization. His publications appear</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">in </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">Classroom </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">Discourse, Intercultural Education, the International Review of Education</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><span style="font-size:12.8px">(UNESCO), the Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development,</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">and Pedagogies: </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">An International Journal. His practitioner digests for language teachers</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">appear with the Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington, D.C. His</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">book Language </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">Endangerment: Disappearing Metaphors and Shifting Conceptualizations (2015)</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">is published with John Benjamins.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Ari Sherris</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">UEW J.W. Fulbright Visiting Scholar in Residence, Ghana</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">TAMUK Assistant Professor of Bilingual Education</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="https://tamuk.academia.edu/AriSherris" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">https://tamuk.academia.edu/AriSherris</a><br></div>
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