28.2304, Calls: Language Acquisition / TESL Canada Journal (Jrnl)

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Subject: 28.2304, Calls: Language Acquisition / TESL Canada Journal (Jrnl)

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Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 10:24:44
From: Marian Rossiter [teslcan at ualberta.ca]
Subject: Language Acquisition / TESL Canada Journal (Jrnl)

 
Full Title: TESL Canada Journal 


Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition 

Call Deadline: 14-Jul-2017 

Call for Papers - Extended deadline

2017 Special Issue of TESL Canada Journal 
Formulaic Language in English language acquisition and teaching
Guest Editor: David Wood, PhD

Formulaic language is a linguistic phenomenon which is basic to human
communication. The term refers to multiword units, which may be continuous or
not, which have a single meaning or function in communication, and which are
probably prefabricated or stored and retrieved mentally as if a single word.
Learners struggle with formulaic sequences and, for example, often fail to
interpret their meanings accurately, even when given ample contextual clues.
While the body of research on formulaic language is large and growing in areas
such as psycholinguistic processing, analysis of the role of formulaic
language in specific genres and registers of language, and extraction from
texts using corpus analysis tools, there are a number of issues yet to be
addressed fully in researching the teaching and acquisition of formulaic
language. For example, how can we be sure that acquisition of specific
formulaic sequences is adequate in causing general language gain? Are there
particular strategies which learners can be taught which will help them to be
more readily capable of perceiving and integrating formulaic sequences in
their own language repertoire without explicit teaching? Similarly, how can we
be sure that our instructional techniques have lasting effects? Clearly, the
teaching of formulaic language is an area still ripe for investigation by
researchers and teachers alike.

This Special Issue of TESL Canada Journal will include papers sharing a focus
on the teaching and acquisition of formulaic language, and may present
empirical studies or literature reviews with fresh and practical conclusions.
Book reviews and practical ''In the classroom'' short papers will also be
included.

To review Author Guidelines and the three categories of Research, In the
Classroom, and Perspectives articles, please refer to
http://www.teslcanadajournal.ca/index.php/tesl/about/submissions.
As part of the submission process, authors are required to download the TESL
Canada Journal Submission Form on that page and to send it to
teslcan at ualberta.ca as an attachment, along with their manuscript.
Questions regarding this special issue should be directed to
teslcan at ualberta.ca.




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