31.440, FYI: Call for Chapter Proposals: Enhancements and Limitations to ICT-Based Informal Language Learning

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Subject: 31.440, FYI:  Call for Chapter Proposals: Enhancements and Limitations to ICT-Based Informal Language Learning

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Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2020 13:41:51
From: Doris Warriner [doris.warriner at asu.edu]
Subject: Call for Chapter Proposals: Enhancements and Limitations to ICT-Based Informal Language Learning

 
Proposal deadline: May 1, 2019
Editor: Doris S. Warriner, Arizona State University
Contact Info: doris.warriner at asu.edu

Introduction and Scope:

With dramatic increases in global conflict, war, drought and famine, the
estimated number of refugees in need of resettlement during FY 2018 reached
nearly 1.2 million and continues to rise. In response, Australia, Canada and
many European and Latin American countries have launched or expanded their
refugee resettlement programs. The U.S., on the other hand, has taken a large
step back from its role as the world’s leader in refugee resettlement. The gap
left by the U.S.’s significantly reduced role has not yet been filled (MPI
2017). Meanwhile, an explicit resistance to and hostility towards displaced
persons (and the idea of demographic change) as well as a surge in far-right
populism across the United States, the United Kingdom and the European Union
contributes to uncertainty in the policy realm, volatility in the political
landscape, and unease among immigrant and refugee advocates.

This volume highlights work that demonstrates how an educational linguistics
perspective might contribute to scholarship and/or educational innovations
needed to advance the research base, inform professional development of
teachers (in preschool, K-12, and continuing / adult education settings), and
improve the educational, social and economic opportunities available to
refugee-background children, youth and adults. With a focus on language
learning and use among refugee-background learners across the lifespan, this
proposed volume demonstrates that educational linguistics as an approach to
inquiry is well positioned to identify, examine, and theorize the language and
literacy dimensions of the refugee experience.

Authors are invited to explore how language ideologies, language policies,
processes of language socialization, and dimensions of language use and
language learning in a range of social spaces (e.g., K-12 classrooms,
after-school programs, community-based programs, the workplace, spaces of
healthcare delivery, online spaces, or nontraditional spaces of language
use/learning) influence processes of learning, practices of teaching, and
policies of language education  With attention to the creative use of existing
or emerging resources as well as the dynamic and social nature of language
learning, this edited volume promises to contribute insights and
understandings that will be of interest to socially responsible language
teachers, teacher educators committed to linguistic equity and diversity,
curriculum developers, or those involved with language assessment. 

Proposals (due May 1, 2019) should contain a chapter title, author name(s) and
affiliation(s), a 300-500 word chapter overview, and a 50-100 word biography
for each author. Proposals should be saved as a single Microsoft Word (.doc or
.docx) or .PDF file and emailed as attachments to doris.warriner at asu.edu.
Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by June 1, 2019. 

This call for proposals has been developed in consultation with a leading
academic publisher. Following the initial selection of proposals, a full book
proposal will be sent to the publisher for review. Upon acceptance, chapter
authors will be sent detailed guidelines, including specifications for images
and other multimedia. Authors will be given approximately 8 months to
contribute full chapters of approximately 7,000-8,000 words. Chapters must be
original and should not be submitted for publication elsewhere. All chapters
will be double-blind peer reviewed (contributors may also be asked to review).

Please send all inquiries to the editor at doris.warriner at asu.edu.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)





 



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