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1) Subject:Call for Submissions: CALI in Non-Roman Script
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Date: 23 May 2003
From:Kirk Belnap <belnap at byu.edu>
Subject:Call for Submissions: CALI in Non-Roman Script
C A L L F O R S U B M I S S I O N S
Special Issue of
The CALICO Journal:
The World Wide Web in Non-Roman Script: CALI in Arabic and Hebrew
Editors:
Samer M. Ali, Ph.D., and
Esther L. Raizen, Ph.D.
Publication date: May 2004
CALICO, the Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium, is a
professional organization that serves a membership involved in both
education and high technology. CALICO has an emphasis on modern
language teaching and learning, but reaches out to all areas that
employ the languages of the world to instruct and to learn. The CALICO
Journal is a peer-reviewed publication devoted to the dissemination of
information concerning the application of technology to language
teaching and language learning. The Journal invites submissions of
articles for a special issue addressing the distinct challenges of
using Arabic and Hebrew in web-based environments.
Description:
A decade of popular use of the World Wide Web has left Hebrew and
Arabic lagging behind in almost every aspect, from the design of
personal web sites to the development of efficient search engines to
the creation of instructional sites and web-based applications capable
of making use of all the advantages that the medium offers. The two
languages are written from right to left, using non-Roman script and
relying heavily on diacritics. Each one of these orthographic
characteristics is sufficiently complex to challenge web developers,
left to struggle with compatibility issues and platform independence
even within the environment of unicode-aware browsers. While the
development of commercial applications for Arabic and Hebrew
instruction has picked up in recent years, web-based applications and
authoring tools that are cost effective and widely available, and, as
such, lend themselves well to use in the academic environment, have not
been made available to developers of Computer Assisted Language
Instruction (CALI) materials.
In response the reality in this field, editors of this CALICO special
issue welcome submissions from single authors or collaborative teams
that confront linguistic and/or technological issues. Articles may
treat topics related to assessment of needs, the difficulties posed for
both developers and users of web applications in Arabic and Hebrew, and
advances in the development of e-mail programs, listervs, distance
learning programs, and text-to-speech tools. This issue will attempt to
provide justification for investing in the development of such
materials and their effective use in the classroom, and call for the
adaptation of effectiveness-evaluation tools of the kind used by
languages written in Roman script. We also hope to provide guidelines
for the development of fully accessible sites in Hebrew and Arabic, and
argue for cooperation between developers across languages. Articles
will need to be submitted by September 30, 2003.
Guidelines for Submission:
Authors are invited to submit articles that have not previously been
published or accepted for publication elsewhere. Authors can submit
manuscripts on diskette, CD or as an e-mail attachments to the CALICO
editors at the address below. The manuscript should be in either
MS-Word or WordPerfect format (Macintosh or PC). Graphics, pictures,
and screen shots should be included in the manuscript and also sent as
separate files, preferably in .PICT or .EPS format. Authors should
follow the Publication Manual of the American Psychological
Association, 4th ed. (1994).
Manuscripts requirements:
-doubled spaced;
-no more than 30 pages in length (excluding bibliography, tables,
notes, etc.);
-a title page stating the name of (each of) the author(s), plus
address, telephone number, fax number, and e-mail address (of each
author);
-an abstract of no more than 200 words and a keywords list of up to
five salient words describing the content of the article;
-accompanied by a biostatement of (each of) the author(s) not to exceed
120 words per author.
Please send submissions to either editor:
Samer M. Ali, Ph.D.
<saali at mail.utexas.edu>
or
Esther L. Raizen, Ph.D.
<er at uts.cc.utexas.edu>
Postal address:
CALICO Journal Special Issue
Department of Middle Eastern Studies
1 University Station, F1500
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78712 USA
Phone: 512-471-1365
Fax: 512-471-4197
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