<div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif">**Apologies for cross-posting**</font><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Dear Colleague, </font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">I am delighted to invite you to submit a chapter proposal for an edited volume developed in consultation with Springer on the role of material mediation in the language classroom. The proposal deadline is August 1, 2019. </font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Scope: </font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-variant-ligatures:none;text-decoration-line:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap">This book will focus on new perspectives on the role of</span><strong style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-variant-ligatures:none;text-decoration-line:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap;box-sizing:border-box"> material mediation</strong><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-variant-ligatures:none;text-decoration-line:inherit;white-space:pre-wrap"> in approaches to language teaching and learning. Offering a diversity of language teaching contexts and learner populations, this book will address the impact of materials on ecological resources of the classroom, the ways materials mediate human action in the classroom, and the materials’ roles in the co-construction of classroom discourse. We invite scholars to submit proposals for original chapters that contribute to the nascent field of research on materials in the language classroom. </span></font></div><div><p id="gmail-h.p_0Djrkb71KSPV" class="gmail-zfr3Q" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:0px;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);text-decoration-line:inherit;line-height:1.56;padding-top:16px;white-space:pre-wrap;direction:ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif">The present volume distinguishes <em style="box-sizing:border-box">materials</em> and <em style="box-sizing:border-box">material mediation</em> in specific ways. A <strong style="box-sizing:border-box">key requirement</strong> for authors submitting manuscripts is that the writing be firmly anchored in these definitions:</font></p><ul class="gmail-n8H08c gmail-UVNKR" style="list-style-type:square;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding-left:20px;padding-top:8px;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;direction:ltr"><li id="gmail-h.p_KLNCkBhVKSPW" class="gmail-zfr3Q gmail-TYR86d" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:0px 0px 6px;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-style:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;line-height:1.56;padding-top:0px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">materials</strong>: artifacts introduced by the teacher and having an immediate and particular underlying pedagogic purpose</font></li><li id="gmail-h.p_8iqs67YGKSPW" class="gmail-zfr3Q gmail-TYR86d" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:6px 0px 0px;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-style:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;line-height:1.56;padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">material mediation</strong>: the bidirectional processes as participants in the classroom ecology (i.e., teachers and learners) engage and interact with the materials and as the materials themselves shape the curriculum, the related planning phase, and the final enactment of teaching and learning in the classroom</font></li></ul><p id="gmail-h.p_iphgrYgDKSPX" class="gmail-zfr3Q" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:0px;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);text-decoration-line:inherit;line-height:1.56;padding-top:16px;white-space:pre-wrap;direction:ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Organized by the theoretical frameworks and perspectives of sociocultural theory (Vygotsky, 1978; Wertsch, 1991), classroom ecology (van Lier, 1996, 2004), and mediated or multimodal discourse analysis (e.g., Norris, 2004; Scollon, 1998), chapters of this volume explore the ways in which teachers and learners are impacted by the affordances and constraints of the materials while at the same time they bring their own (evolving) resources, identities, beliefs, and expertise to modify and adapt the materials to better suit their local context(s) in the language teaching and learning environments. <strong style="box-sizing:border-box">Contributing authors are asked to frame the scope of their chapters within the parameters of the following guiding research questions</strong>:</font></p><ul class="gmail-n8H08c gmail-UVNKR" style="list-style-type:square;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding-left:20px;padding-top:8px;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;direction:ltr"><li id="gmail-h.p_5exjHDoWKSPY" class="gmail-zfr3Q gmail-TYR86d" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:0px 0px 6px;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-style:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;line-height:1.56;padding-top:0px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">How do materials serve as artifacts that mediate human action? </font></li><li id="gmail-h.p_HYyAmuA1KSPZ" class="gmail-zfr3Q gmail-TYR86d" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:6px 0px;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-style:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;line-height:1.56;padding-top:0px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">How do materials serve as semiotic resources in the ecology of the classroom? </font></li><li id="gmail-h.p_k0na2eZUKSPZ" class="gmail-zfr3Q gmail-TYR86d" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:6px 0px;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-style:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;line-height:1.56;padding-top:0px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">How do materials influence and mediate interaction with the course curriculum and/or the classroom discourse? </font></li><li id="gmail-h.p_liNkn4nzKSPa" class="gmail-zfr3Q gmail-TYR86d" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:6px 0px 0px;outline:none;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-style:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;line-height:1.56;padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="">How do materials and their embedded activities teach, help, and/or facilitate language development or afford learning opportunities in the language classroom? </font></li></ul><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><font face="arial, sans-serif">For more information and to submit proposals, please visit our website at:
</font><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(17,85,205)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://z.umn.edu/material-mediation">https://z.umn.edu/material-mediation</a></font></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(17,85,205)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif">Please send all inquiries to Darren LaScotte (co-editor) at <a href="mailto:lasc0027@umn.edu">lasc0027@umn.edu</a>. </font></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif">On behalf of the co-editors, </font></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif">Corinne Mathieu</font></p><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">--</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">PhD Candidate</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Instructor: CI 5671</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Clinical Supervisor</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Curriculum and Instruction: Second Language Education</font></div><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">University of Minnesota, Twin Cities</font></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__MuseInternational.wordpress.com&d=DwMFaQ&c=C3yme8gMkxg_ihJNXS06ZyWk4EJm8LdrrvxQb-Je7sw&r=PjL2Sf55_284WDp62MaBl7W-wxDfBPB9hnZ9mfDuDoI&m=_Ilze8wCpyfr9F8zDtSI_L9DvVAv-lGPEhVRP7-oKww&s=KMwIc47dwnAp5srAIZNmxBna1MVcddfj5yiMhVTq2AM&e=" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">MuseInternational.wordpress.com</span></a><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>