Call for proposals for a CALICO book project (fwd)

[phil cash cash]

[fwd from the CALICO-L, CALL is "Computer Assisted Language Learning"]

Please excuse the multiple postings.

In response to the need for a publication that can serve as an
introduction to the field of CALL, CALICO invites proposals for a
book-length project to meet this need.

The book should be designed as a general survey of the field that
introduces teachers, faculty, graduate students to the major issues and
various subfields in CALL.  Individual chapters should address the
subfields such as CMC, Internet-based learning, programming and/or
authoring tools, digital/digitizing media, streaming media, CALL and
assessment, course management systems, national foreign language
standards and CALL, specific language proficiencies--listening,
reading, writing, and speaking--and CALL, and so on.  Each chapter
should follow the same format: a literature review, discussion of the
essential principles of the subfield under consideration, questions for
reflections, and relevant bibliography.

Discussion by CALICO's Executive and Editorial boards over the past four
months have led to the formulation of a working title, "Language
teaching
and technology: From theory to practice."  This title is meant more to
suggest the nature and scope of the project rather than specify the
actual
title of the publication.

Proposals should include the following information:
1.  name of the editor(s),
2.  tentative title,
3.  description of the scope and sequence of the book, including the
number of chapters, their titles, and a very brief synopsis of each,
and
4.  description of the procedures for soliciting and refereeing
manuscripts for the chapters.

Proposals should be submitted as a word document attached to a message
to
execdir at calico.org by December 3, 2004.  Final decisions will be made by
the end of January 2005.


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Robert Fischer, Executive Director
CALICO
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Texas State University
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Phone:  512/245-1417
Fax:    512/245-9089
Email:  execdir at calico.org
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