<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">Forwarded From: <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lpren@caltalk.cal.org">lpren@caltalk.cal.org</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 3:59 AM<br> Call for Chapter Proposals<br><br><br><br><p> </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS</span></b></p>
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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 </span></p>
<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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