call for papers

[Benjamin Rifkin]

Call for Papers

for the volume __The Learning and Teaching of Slavic Languages and
Cultures:  Toward the 21st Century__.

Papers are solicited on the following topics:

1) the proficiency movement and beyond;
2) testing in the Slavic languages and cultures classroom;
3) culture (including literature) in the language classroom;
4) classroom discourse;
5) cognitive psychology;
6) heritage speakers;
7) teacher training and education; and
8) technology.

Papers for the volume will be selected by means of an anonymous refereed
process.  An editorial board consisting of Slavists and non-Slavists has
been assembled from scholars all across North America, including faculty
members from the following institutions:  Columbia University, George
Washington University, Harvard University, Ohio State University, Princeton
University, State University of New York at Albany, University of
California at Los Angeles, University of California at San Diego,
University of Iowa, University of Pittsburgh, and the University of
Wisconsin-Madison.

The editors encourage submissions relevant to the learning and teaching of
ALL Slavic languages and cultures and submissions focusing on empirical
research.

In addition to refereed papers, each section will include a keynote paper,
written by a prominent non-Slavist expert, and a response paper, written by
a Slavist.  Keynote and response paper authors include:  Patricia Chaput,
Edna Coffin, William Comer, Madeline Ehrman, Kathryn Henry, Betty Lou
Leaver, Judith Liskin-Gasparro, David Nunan, Irene Thompson, and Guadalupe
Vald=E9s, among others.

Papers should be double-spaced, no more than 25 pp. or 7,000 words in
length, and should conform to the style guidelines of the __MLA Handbook
for Writers of Research Papers__.  Papers, together with 100-word
abstracts, should be submitted in four (4) copies by Monday, April 7, 1997
to:

Prof. Benjamin Rifkin
Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures
University of Wisconsin-Madison
1432 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Drive
Madison, WI  53706

=46or questions about the volume, authors are encouraged to contact either
Benjamin Rifkin at the above address or by e-mail
(brifkin at facstaff.wisc.edu) or Olga Kagan at the Department of Slavic
Languages & Literatures, University of California at Los Angeles, 115
Kinsey Hall, Los Angeles, CA  90024 (e-mail:  okagan at humnet.ucla.edu).

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Benjamin Rifkin
Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures
University of Wisconsin-Madison
1432 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Drive, Madison, WI  53706
(608) 262-1623; fax (608) 265-2814
e-mail:  brifkin at facstaff.wisc.edu