28.2426, Calls: Sociolinguistics / CALICO (Jrnl)

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Subject: 28.2426, Calls: Sociolinguistics / CALICO (Jrnl)

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Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2017 11:31:19
From: Jesse Gleason [gleasonj8 at southernct.edu]
Subject: Sociolinguistics / CALICO (Jrnl)

 
Full Title: CALICO 


Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-Jul-2017 

Call for Proposals for the CALICO Journal Special Issue 36.1
Topic/Title: Moving forward with critical CALL to promote social inclusivity

Guest editors: Jesse Gleason, Southern Connecticut State University, Ruslan
Suvorov, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
This special issue will explore the interplay between technology-mediated
language learning and issues of social injustice, power, and inequality. As
Guo and Beckett (2007) argue, ''the increasing dominance of the English
language is contributing to neocolonialism by empowering the already powerful
and leaving the disadvantaged further behind'' (p. 117). Integral questions
from the perspective of critical CALL include: How does technology play a role
in this dynamic? How do neoliberal principles such as an individualistic
competition model and CALL intertwine? (How) can we leverage technology to
promote ''social inclusion'' (Warschauer, 2003, p. 8)? Gruba and Hinkelman's
(2012) three-tiered approach to the design and evaluation of blended learning
experiences provides a springboard for expanding the study of critical CALL.
The special issue issue seeks to uncover which structures, strategies, or
modes of technology-mediated language instruction serve to ''enact, sustain,
legitimate, condone or ignore social inequality and injustice'' (van Dijk,
1993, p. 252). Ultimately, it asks a similar question to that posed by Motha
(2014, p. xxiii): How do we participate in CALL ''in a way that is
responsible, ethical, and conscious of the consequences of our practice''? A
clear description and evaluation of critical CALL at the meso- and
macro-levels will add to previous research at the micro-level (Helm, Bradley,
Guarda & Thouësny, 2015), providing a roadmap for critical CALL grounded in
the promotion of equality, access, and social justice. The editors invite
studies that utilize a critical CALL perspective to topics and questions such
as:

- Technology, new/multi-literacies, and social inclusivity
- CALL in the era of globalization and the networked society
- Access to technology in developed vs. developing countries
- Social media and CALL
- Diffusion of CALL in restricted contexts/communities (e.g., Internet
restrictions/censorship in China)

Moving forward with critical CALL to promote social inclusivity will cultivate
a discussion of and take a critical stance on the role of technology in
broader meso- and macro-level language learning contexts in order to
problematize and propose solutions to issues of inequality, marginalization,
and social injustice. 

By bringing together a collection of articles in the above areas, it will move
forward with critical CALL in order to seek solutions to fundamental social,
political, and economic problems. Abstracts between 200-300 words can be
submitted as email attachment (word or pdf format only please) to
gleasonj8 at southernct.edu and rsuvorov at hawaii.edu by July 15, 2017.
 
Please note that abstract acceptance does not guarantee publication of the
submitted manuscript. All manuscripts will be subject to a double blind peer
review process.
Production timeline:
First Call for Papers: May 1, 2017
Second Call for Papers: June 1, 2017
Deadline for submission of abstracts: July 15, 2017 (by email to the guest
editors)
Authors are notified of acceptance: July 31, 2017
Authors submit full manuscripts for review: Dec 1, 2017 (normal author
submission through CJ's OJS)
Authors receive first-round reviews: February 28, 2018
Revised manuscripts due: April 30, 2018
Editorial decision by the guest editors: June 30, 2018
Special Issue to be published: January 2019




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