[Edling] Call for Chapter Proposals Reminder: Language Teaching in the Linguistic Landscape

[Malinowski, David]

FINAL WEEK REMINDER: CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS



Language Teaching in the Linguistic Landscape





Proposal deadline: December 1, 2016



Editors

David Malinowski, Yale University

Hiram Maxim, Emory University

Sébastien Dubreil, Carnegie Mellon University



Website: https://langteachll.wordpress.com/



Introduction and scope



With the continued growth of research on linguistic landscape in fields such as sociolinguistics and language policy, interest in the possibilities of linguistic landscape for fostering language development as well as culture and literacy learning has also been on the rise. Studies such as Cenoz and Gorter (2008), Dagenais et al. (2009), and Rowland (2013) have suggested ways to use the diverse texts and textual practices of public spaces for pedagogical purposes as varied as vocabulary development, pragmatic competence, and critical language awareness.



However, as global flows and superdiverse conditions have come to redefine relationships of people, place, and language (e.g., Blommaert, 2010; Pennycook & Otsuji, 2015) there is an imperative for L2 educators and learners to answer Leander and Sheehy's (2004) call for the "spatialization" of language/literacy education, and to engage with notions of geographical locations as culturally charged and contested spaces of top-down and bottom-up meaning-making practices.



This edited volume seeks to take up this call for a spatialized approach, both illuminating the potential of the linguistic landscape to address long-standing challenges in language and literacy pedagogy, and mobilizing research on teaching and learning to expand the theoretical and methodological repertoires of linguistic landscape research. We invite chapter proposals grounded in teaching and learning practice that address the aforementioned aspects of the topic. Potential guiding questions could include, but are not limited to, the following:



·       How can the LL serve as a site for implementing a pedagogy of multiliteracies (New London Group, 1996; Cope & Kalantzis, 2015)?

·       How can the LL be approached to address recent concerns of Second Language Acquisition (e.g., symbolic competence; multimodality; transdisciplinarity)?

·       What opportunities does LL-based language and literacy instruction offer for opening the classroom to the epistemological stances and research practices of other disciplines?

·       How can language learning in the LL be assessed, and what new assessment approaches and practices does teaching in the LL encourage?

·       How can teaching in and through the LL reduce the perceived remoteness of the target language for the L2 teacher and learner?

·       How can the LL become a productive site for community- and project-based learning?

·       How can the LL serve as a context for overcoming the division between language and content instruction in second, heritage, and world language (L2) classrooms?

·       How can instructional technologies and/or social pedagogies be leveraged to engage with the LL for language developmental purposes?



Submission instructions



The editors welcome proposal submissions by December 1, 2016. Proposals should contain the following information:



1.     Proposed chapter title

2.     Author name(s) and affiliation(s)

3.     300-500 word chapter overview

4.     50-100 word biography for each author

5.     Optional: 1-2 embedded images (please keep overall file size to a minimum)



Proposals should be saved as a single Microsoft Word (.doc, .docx), text (.txt), or .PDF file, and emailed as attachments to langteachLL at gmail.com<mailto:langteachLL at gmail.com>. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by January 15, 2017.



This volume has been discussed in detail with an internationally reputable publisher. Following the selection of proposals, a full book proposal will be sent to the publisher. Upon acceptance, chapter authors will be sent detailed guidelines, including specifications for images and other multimedia. Authors will be given approximately 10 months to contribute full chapters of approximately 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 editors at langteachLL at gmail.com<mailto:langteachLL at gmail.com>.




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