[Slling-l] Call for Papers on Signed Language Pedagogy--The Language Teaching Research Journal

[Rosen, Russell]

Greetings fellow researchers:

Learning signed languages, including American Sign Language (ASL), as
secondary or additional languages have become a major interest as of late,
with exponential growth worldwide in classes over the last two decades.

Unfortunately, very little is known about strategies for effective teaching
for signed language learners in the high school, college, and university
settings. A number of studies with different signed languages all over the
world are mostly global studies. They include signed language linguistics,
corpus, histories, acquisition, technology, and assessments. However, there
is insufficient number of research studies on signed language pedagogy for
second and additional language learners.

Based on this glaring need for research in sign language pedagogy, the
*Language
Teaching Research* journal agrees to host a special issue on signed
language pedagogy. The journal publishes articles that demonstrate sound
research methods or provide empirical evidence that have clear pedagogical
implications for teaching foreign, second or additional languages.

The focus of this special issue will be on teaching signed languages as
additional languages using the teacher-as-researcher research paradigm and
design(s). This includes various research methods such as quantitative,
qualitative, mixed, and action type research. We are interested in studies
on the connections between instructional strategies, curricular materials,
contexts of teaching, and teachers’ characteristics, and teachers’ teaching
performances and/or students’ learning performances or outcomes.

We believe that research studies covered in the special issue will report
findings that have greater pedagogical implications for the field of
teaching signed languages as second and additional language to high school,
college, and university students.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact one of the
co-editors of the special issue.

DEADLINES:
July 1, 2015: Abstracts (200-word limit), including description of contents
is due by this date.

July 30, 2015: The authors will be notified of the decision on their
submissions.

December 30, 2015: Articles (8,000-word limit including title, abstracts,
notes, references, tables, figures, appendix, etc.) are due from the
authors. They will be sent out for peer review through the journal’s peer
review process.


The guest co-editors of the Language Teaching Research journal Special
Issue on Signed Language Pedagogy, to whom questions may be referred, are:

Russell S. Rosen, Ph.D., CUNY College of Staten Island and Teachers
College, Columbia University. Email: rsr14 at tc.columbia.edu;
russell.rosen at csi.cuny.edu

Jody, H. Cripps, Ph.D., Towson University. Email: JCripps at towson.edu
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