[EDLING:237] CFP: INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE BILINGUALISM

[Francis M. Hult]

Call for Papers

International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism
(General Editor: Colin Baker, University of Wales at Bangor)

SPECIAL ISSUE ON INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE BILINGUALISM

Guest Editor: Norbert Francis, Northern Arizona University

FOCUS

Manuscripts are being requested for the upcoming special issue of the
International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism on
Indigenous Language Bilingualism. The focus of the special issue will
be on research reports from field studies of bilingualism and language
learning, aspects of language use and language competence, and
research applied to both educational contexts and language development
in general involving indigenous language communities and indigenous
cultures. Papers should be reports on an actual empirical study, or a
theoretical discussion or review of literature that references
empirical work in the field. A broad range of theoretical and
methodological approaches is to be included, from: educational
linguistics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, anthropological
studies of language and education, and work from experimental,
controlled-descriptive, and ethnographic approaches.  Aspects of
language development and language use focused on either the indigenous
language or the national language or both, children and/or adults, in
school and/or extracurricular-community settings are being solicited.

SUGGESTED TOPICS
Reports, reviews, and discussions related to the study of indigenous
languages from the following areas of research are especially welcome:

-Literacy learning (indigenous language and/or national language)
-Written language, writing systems
-Oral tradition
-Narrative development
-Analysis of narrative, ceremonial, poetic, pedagogic, oral history
genres
-Second language learning of indigenous and/or national languages
-Language preservation/revitalization
-First or second language attrition, language shift
-Bilingual instructional models, indigenous languages in content area
teaching
-Classroom interaction, academic achievement
-Cross-cultural communication, discourse analysis
-Development of pragmatic knowledge
-Grammatical aspects of bilingual development (phonology, morphology,
syntax, semantics)
-Bilingualism and cognition, metalinguistic awareness<br>
-Early childhood bilingualism, L1 acquisition of indigenous
languages
-Intergenerational transmission
-Late L2 learning of indigenous languages
-Research methodology, language assessment
-Codeswitching, borrowing, mixing
-Crosslinguistic influence, transfer, language processing
-Language variation, language change

Authors may, if they wish, send an abstract and introductory section
of a proposed paper to the guest editor to receive initial
observations regarding suitability for the special issue theme, final
acceptance subject to a full review of the completed paper.

SUBMISSION FORMAT

Papers should be original, previously unpublished research,
approximately 6,000 - 7,000 words, in English. Guidelines for authors
can be found at http://www.multilingual-matters.com/

Then click: Journals info International Journal of Bilingual Education
and Bilingualism General Guidelines for Authors of Journal
Papers.

Interested persons should feel free to send any inquiry related to
this project to the guest editor.

Send your submission (preferably as a Word file attached to an email
message), prepared for anonymous review, to:
norbert.francis at nau.edu
or by post to:
Norbert Francis
College of Education, P.O. Box 5774
Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, Arizona 86001, USA

Please indicate a return address and/or email, including institutional
affiliation, of the primary author. An electronic version of your
paper, if accepted, will be required.

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submissions: May 1, 2005
Notification of acceptance: August 30, 2005
Final versions due: November 30, 2005