23.5093, FYI: Language Issues Dissertation Competition

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Subject: 23.5093, FYI: Language Issues Dissertation Competition

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Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2012 13:42:42
From: Stephen Bahry [stephen.bahry at gmail.com]
Subject: Language Issues Dissertation Competition

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Language Issues SIG Dissertation Award 2013

The Comparative International Education Society (CIES) Language Issues (LI)
Special Interest Group (SIG) is pleased to announce its 2013 Dissertation
Award! The award is open to dissertations that focus on educational language
issues, broadly defined, in comparative and international research. Each
dissertations will be reviewed based on the following criteria:

1. Its relevance to current thinking in the field
2. The sophistication or innovation of the methodology used;
3. The soundness of data collection and analysis;
4. Its social utility and/or its implication for policy; and
5. Its incorporation of a comparative perspective.

Eligible dissertations must have been filed within a 24-month period prior to
the LI SIG nomination deadline of January 15, 2013 (e.g., from December 1,
2010 to January 14, 2013). Students in Ed.D or Ph.D programs are eligible and
the applicant and/or the Dissertation Chair must be a current member of CIES.
The winning dissertation author will receive $100.

Applicants should submit the following four documents to be considered for the
award:

1. A detailed abstract of no more than five pages along with a self-assessment
indicating how the dissertation meets the above five criteria; both should be
doubled-spaced with no author identification (for blind review);
2. A title page (not counted within the page limit) with the author's name,
address,institutional affiliation, telephone, e-mail address, and names of
dissertation committee chair(s) and members;
3. A reference page (not counted within the page limit) with only the
references cited in the abstract; and
4. One letter from the Dissertation Chair recommending the dissertation for
this award (this letter may be sent directly to the Committee at the e-mail
address below).

After an initial round of consideration, the two highest rated candidates will
be asked to send the Committee a file with their entire dissertation. The 2013
Language Issues Dissertation Award Committee will be chaired by Dr. Carolyn
Adger, Senior Fellow, Center for Applied Linguistics, and Dr. Jessica Ball,
School of Child and Youth Care, University of Victoria, Canada, and comprised
of two additional LI SIG researchers representing broad areas of expertise
within language-related scholarship.

Awardees will be recognized formally at the LI SIG business meeting at the
CIES Conference in New Orleans March 10-15, 2013.

Submission information Please submit the above documents electronically (as
attachments in Word compatible files with the key words ''Dissertation Award
Submission'' in the subject line to:

Kara Brown (brownk25 at mailbox.sc.edu) by January 15, 2013. If you have any
questions, please do not hesitate to contact Dr. Brown at the above e-mail
address.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics





 






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