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<p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; COLOR: rgb(25,25,25)">Theorizing and Analyzing Language Teacher Agency
</span></b><i><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">(Tentative Title)</span></i><b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Submission Deadline: September 30, 2016</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Editors:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1.75in"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Dr. Hayriye Kayi-Aydar (University of Arizona)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1.75in"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Dr. Xuesong (Andy) Gao (University of Hong Kong)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1.75in"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Dr. Elizabeth Miller (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1.75in"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Dr. Manka Varghese (University of Washington)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1.75in"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Dr. Gergana Vitanova (University of Central Florida)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; COLOR: rgb(49,42,42)">Teachers play a vital role in making decisions about instruction, curriculum changes, and, in some contexts, educational reforms and language policies. However, their decision-making
does not simply happen. They draw from a variety of sources to make decisions, and their agency is socially constructed and shaped.
</span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Although the concept of agency has been theorized extensively in various academic disciplines (e.g., sociology, philosophy, economics, anthropology, etc.) and from diverse perspectives, teacher agency, and
second/foreign language teacher agency, in particular, has been neither well theorized nor conceptualized. Furthermore, in the current literature on second/foreign language teacher agency, the focus has been limited to the discussions of professionalism (e.g.,
Morgan & Saunders, 2014), policy and implementation (e.g., Hamid & Nguyen, 2016; Van Huy, Hamid, & Renshaw, 2016), or educational change (e.g., Kitade, 2015;
</span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; COLOR: rgb(26,26,26)">Liyanage, Bartlett, Walker, & Guo, 2015)</span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">. This volume aims to address this gap by providing an in-depth conceptualization of “second/foreign
language teacher agency” through theoretical and empirical research. </span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; COLOR: rgb(49,42,42)"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">We are seeking proposals for chapters that address the construct of language teacher agency through theoretical and/or empirical research in second language studies. In particular, we are interested
in chapters that draw on a range of theories of or approaches (e.g., activity theory, positioning theory, feminist theory, etc.) to language teacher agency that expand our understanding of the concept as well as manuscripts that present varying analytic approaches
adopted in empirical studies (e.g., discourse studies, narrative inquiry, systemic functional linguistics, etc.). Chapters can analyze the connection of agency to other relevant topics, such as teacher identity, emotions, teacher cognition, positioning, accountability,
curriculum change, language policy, etc. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Guidelines for Chapter Proposal Submission</span></b></p>
<p><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"> </span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">You are invited to submit a 500-word proposal by September 30, 2016 containing the following information:</span></p>
<p><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"> </span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Book section to which your chapter is being submitted (theoretical OR analytical focus)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Proposal chapter title</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Author name(s) and Affiliation(s)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Overview of chapter
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">100-word biography for each author</span></p>
<p><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"> </span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Authors of accepted proposal will be notified by November 1, 2016.</span></p>
<p><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"> </span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">This volume has been discussed with an internationally reputable publisher. Once chapter proposals are finalized, a full book proposal will be sent to the publisher.
Upon acceptance by the publisher, potential chapter authors will be invited to submit full chapters (up to 8,000 words) and will be sent guidelines for preparing chapters along with submission deadlines (approximately three months from notification). Chapters
should be original work and should not be submitted for publication elsewhere. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this book project. Inquiries and chapter proposals
can be submitted electronically (Word document) to the editors: </span><a href="mailto:langteacheragency@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">langteacheragency@gmail.com</span></a></p>
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