25.4406, FYI: Call for Award Nominations - Second Language Research

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Subject: 25.4406, FYI: Call for Award Nominations - Second Language Research

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Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2014 16:46:30
From: Erica Dotson [ericadotson at clayton.edu]
Subject: Call for Award Nominations - Second Language Research

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From: Erica Dotson [ericadotson at clayton.edu]
Subject: Call for Award Nominations - Second Language Research

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The Second Language Research Special Interest Group of the American Education
Research Association seeks nominations for three awards:

- The Distinguished Dissertation Award
- The Mid-Career Award
- The Leadership through Research Award 

Please read details about each of these awards below. The deadline is quickly
approaching for the awards. Please contact ericadotson at clayton.edu if you
would like to request an extension.

Dissertation Award :
The Second Language Research Special Interest Group of AERA honors the writer
of an outstanding dissertation completed during each calendar year. The award
goes to the dissertation research that best demonstrates the following
criteria: solid theoretical base, sound methodology and data collection,
originality, and promising contribution to the field of second language
research. 

Candidates must have completed and filed their dissertation between January 1,
2013 and October 31, 2014 and must be members of the Second Language Research
SIG. The candidate, dissertation chair, or members of the candidate’s
dissertation committee may make nominations by sending: 
a) A cover letter with the candidate’s name, address, telephone, and e-mail
address; 
b) Supporting statement as to why the dissertation is worthy of this award;
and 
c) A 250-word abstract of the dissertation. 

Submit nominations by November 15, 2014 to Dr. Erica K. Dotson,
ericadotson at clayton.edu. 

Please send the letter and the abstract as an attachment for efficient
distribution. Late submissions will not be considered. Finalists will be asked
to submit an article-length manuscript based upon the dissertation for blind
review by December 15, 2014 . At a minimum, we suggest that candidates include
the following: 
a) Problem statement and a description of the context (or contextualization)
in which the research took place; 
b) Review of the literature including the contribution your dissertation
makes; 
c) Design of the study; 
d) Analysis of the data; 
e) Recognition of the limitations of the study and checks for
untrustworthiness of the study; 
f) Implications; and 
g) Recommendations for further research and instructional practice. 

Manuscript Length: 
20 pages preferred (excluding bibliography, tables, notes); longer article
acceptable, depending on merit. Please send the manuscript electronically as
an attachment. 
The winner will be officially recognized at the AERA Annual Meeting in 2015
during our SIG business meeting. If the winner is able to attend, he/she will
make a presentation of his/her study at this time. In addition to a plaque
formally recognizing the achievement, the winner will receive a reimbursement
of their registration fees to attend the 2015 annual meeting.

Sincerely, 
Erica K. Dotson, Ph.D.
Nominations Award Chair 
Faculty Awards 
Call for Nominations (cont’d) 

The Second Language Research SIG Mid-Career Award: 
This award honors an outstanding researcher who has developed a research
agenda for more than six years to a maximum of fifteen years beyond the
conferral of the doctoral degree. The award is designed to recognize an
individual with a promising program of research on significant issues in the
field of second language. 

Nominated mid-career researchers will be evaluated on the aims and potential
outcomes of their work, as well as the overall degree to which their research
advances knowledge in the second language field, contributes to students´,
teachers´, teacher educators´, communities´, or families´ well-being, and
influences the creation, collection, and analysis of data. The nominated
researcher’s noted contribution must have been published in publications that
reach audiences either in peer reviewed journals for researchers and/or
practitioner-oriented journals, widely-disseminated reports from professional
organizations or scholarly publishing entities such as university presses or
other academic presses. 

The nominator must be a member of AERA, and the nominee must become a member
in order to be fully considered for the award. Nominees must also become
members of the L2 SIG in order to be fully considered for the award.
Nominations must include: 
(1) A one-page letter of nomination explaining why the nominee is qualified to
be a Mid-Career Award recipient; 
(2) The nominee’s most recent curriculum vitae; 
(3) Two representative scholarly publications related to this award; and 
(4) Two letters of support from individuals familiar with the nominee´s
contributions in the areas of teaching or teacher education. Letters of
support must elaborate on how the research demonstrates the qualities listed
in the paragraph above. Self-nominations will not be accepted. 

The winner will be officially recognized at the AERA Annual Meeting in 2015
during our SIG business meeting. In addition to a plaque formally recognizing
the achievement, the winner will receive a reimbursement of their registration
fees to attend the 2015 annual meeting.

Please send nominations to: Dr. Erica K. Dotson, Awards Committee Chair,
ericadotson at clayton.edu no later than November 15, 2014. 

Faculty Awards: 
Second Language Leadership through Research Award 
This award recognizes senior scholars who have made significant and exemplary
contributions throughout their research, teaching, and professional service in
the field of Second Language Research. Contributions should reflect the
purpose and goal of the SIG: (1) to advance knowledge related to second
language education, (2) to encourage scholarly inquiry related to second
language education, and (3) to promote the use of research to improve teaching
and learning. 

Nominees must meet at least two of the following criteria: 
(1) Nominees must have played an active and long-standing role in the field of
second language research; (2) Nominees must be highly respected and recognized
by others (nationally and internationally) as a leader in the field on issues
critical to second language education and must have actively promoted the use
of research to improve the teaching and learning of second languages; (3)
Nominees must have carried out original and innovative research that has been
recognized by experts as having a major impact in our understanding of second
language education and that has been published in a format widely available to
other researchers and practitioners; and, (4) Nominees must have played an
active role in the preparation of high quality and innovative materials for
second language teaching and teacher education; and 
(5) Nominees must have supported others–in particular new and younger
scholars–to further their research and teaching in the field through
mentoring, collaborative research, professional development, and other similar
activities. 

Nominations for this award will be accepted from AERA members no later than
November 1, 2014. Nominations of past or current scholars, as well as emeriti
researchers will be accepted. Self-nominations will not be accepted. The
nominee must be a member of the AERA L2 SIG or become a member before he or
she will be fully considered for the award. Nominations must clearly explain
how the nominated scholar has met the criteria described above. The committee
will also review additional supporting documentation, including, but not
limited to, letters of support, Curriculum Vitae, and personal websites. 

The winner will be officially recognized at the AERA Annual Meeting in 2015
during our SIG business meeting. In addition to a plaque formally recognizing
the achievement, the winner will receive a reimbursement of their registration
fees to attend the 2015 annual meeting.

Previous Award Winners are:
Bonny Norton (2012)
Ryuko Kubota (2014)

Please send nominations to: Dr. Erica K. Dotson, Awards Committee Chair,
ericadotson at clayton.edu no later than November 15, 2014.

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     General Linguistics

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