33.2275, FYI: English Language and Communication Classes in Higher Education: Designs, Methods, Challenges, Evaluations and Outcomes

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LINGUIST List: Vol-33-2275. Fri Jul 15 2022. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 33.2275, FYI: English Language and Communication Classes in Higher Education: Designs, Methods, Challenges, Evaluations and Outcomes

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Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2022 02:00:09
From: Rosmawati Rosmawati [rosmawati at singaporetech.edu.sg]
Subject: English Language and Communication Classes in Higher Education: Designs, Methods, Challenges, Evaluations and Outcomes

Dear colleagues, 

We are delighted to invite you to contribute a chapter to an upcoming edited
volume on English writing programs, such as academic writing courses,
communication skills courses, critical thinking and communication courses,
English composition courses, writing in the discipline (WiD), writing across
the curriculum (WAC), etc. A commissioning editor at Routledge, Katie Peace,
has expressed great interest in this volume. 

Editors: Dr Rosmawati (Assistant Professor, Singapore Institute of Technology)
& Dr Marjolijn Verspoor (Professor Em., University of Groningen) 

Courses (or modules) on English language and communication skills are now
rather prevalent in many universities and institutes of higher learning around
the world. In English as a medium of instructions (EMI) institutions
particularly, these courses are frequently part of the curriculum for students
regardless of their disciplines/major specializations. An example is the
ubiquitous first-year writing course that is now near mandatory at almost any
tertiary institution across the globe. The approach taken in the
implementation of these courses, however, varies from institution to
institution and country to country. We, therefore, feel the need to put
together a volume that maps the landscape of these courses and would like the
chapters to focus on curriculum design innovations, instructional strategies,
classroom challenges, assessment practices in the teaching and learning
process. Thus, in this book we will identify themes and pedagogies used,
discuss challenges, and share our reflection on the teaching and learning
practice in these courses.  

This edited book will bring together a collection of chapters that showcase
these language/communication courses in tertiary education institutions, with
clear descriptions of the theoretical and practical considerations
underpinning them. The aim is to enable replication and/or adaptation where
need be. The intended target audience includes university teachers,
coordinators, and especially practitioners and teaching teams of such courses.

To make the book coherent, we envision inclusion of the following parts in
each chapter: 
1. Contextualisation of the course, including the goal(s) of the program, the
stakeholders 
2. Theories and practices that have informed the program 
3. Implementation of the course (including details such as the profiles of
students and the instructors, profiles of the course, etc.) 
4. Evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of the course (e.g., what do
students say; what do instructors say about the workload, etc.) 

Papers will be selected through peer-review of extended abstracts by our
expert panel and the editing team. This is the timeline we will work with: 
Undertaking  -- Due date 
Call for chapters sent to potential contributors -- July 2022 
Submission of a title and an abstract (of 500-600 words, not counting
references) -- 12 Sept 2022 
Notification of acceptance of abstract, AND Invitation to submit full papers
to be sent to authors -- 30 Nov 2022 
Submission of full book proposal to Routledge (by the editors) -- 15 Dec 2022 
Submission of full chapters by authors -- 31 May 2023 
Review comments sent to authors -- 31 July 2023 
Submission of revised chapters -- 30 Sept 2023 
Acceptance of chapters based on the review outcomes -- 30 Nov 2023 

If you are interested in contributing to this volume, please prepare a title
and an abstract (of 500-600 words, not counting references) in a single file
(in WORD or PDF format) and send it to Dr. Rosmawati
(rosmawati at singaporetech.edu.sg) by 12 Sept 2022.  

If you know of other potential authors who might be interested in contributing
to our volume, please feel free to forward this message to them or to let us
know. Thank you for kindly considering our invitation. 

Kind regards, 
Rosmawati and Marjolijn

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

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