[EDLING:2204] CFP: Psycholinguistics in TESOL

[Francis M Hult]

> Call for Abstracts
> TESOL Quarterly Special Topic Issue, September 2008
> Psycholinguistics in TESOL
> Edited by John Field
> 
> TESOL Quarterly seeks abstracts for its 2008 special topic issue on the
> relevance of psycholinguistic theory to English language teaching. This
> special issue will focus specifically on cognitive concerns. It will enable
> researchers to present new studies of second language (L2) skills
> development and use that draw on psycholinguistic principles. Articles might
> compare first and second language processing, with a focus on the cognitive
> challenges that language learners are likely to encounter when acquiring
> vocabulary, grammar, or one of the four skills. Articles might also examine
> major concepts from cognitive psychology, such as attention, automaticity,
> and working memory, and consider their impact on L2-classroom or real-world
> performance. Also of interest will be articles that explore the implications
> for TESOL pedagogy of recent psycholinguistic theories of instance-based
> learning and formulaic storage or that apply current models of lexical
> storage or processing.
> 	Articles selected for the issue should make psycholinguistic theory and
> terminology clear to readers outside the field and support psycholinguistic
> concepts with concrete evidence drawn from L2 learners? behaviour. Articles
> should also spell out the implications for practice, with a special emphasis
> on critically evaluating current methods and presuppositions. Authors may
> wish to make clear that psycholinguistic inquiry seeks to represent general
> processes that reflect how the human brain operates, but that these
> representations allow for differences in individual learning styles,
> communication strategies, and contextual constraints.
> 	Abstracts should describe previously unpublished work with implications for
> a variety of TESOL professionals. In addition to full-length articles, the
> issue will include shorter articles about ongoing studies in Brief Reports
> and Summaries and about current issues of debate in the Forum. Please send a
> 600-word abstract for a full-length article, and a 300-word abstract for a
> Brief Reports or Forum contribution.
> 	Please submit one copy of the abstract without author name(s) and a second
> copy with each author?s name, affiliation, mailing address, e-mail address,
> telephone and fax numbers, and a 50-word biographical statement to John
> Field at j.c.field at reading.ac. uk or jcf1000 at dircon.co.uk. Abstracts may
> also be mailed: Send three copies of the abstract with author details on a
> separate sheet to John Field, Department of Applied Linguistics, University
> of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading RG6 6AA, UK.
> 
> Deadline for abstracts extended to: January 31, 2007