Call for articles/case studies for the Subject Centre website
News summary
The Subject Centre wishes to expand its much-praised online collection of articles and case studies on aspects of the teaching and learning of Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies in Higher Education.
Themes
We are inviting proposals for either an article or a case study relating to the following areas:
| Learning and Teaching: General | Content |
|---|---|
| Teaching Area Studies via the web | |
| Language teaching via the web | |
| Dissertations | Design and assessment |
| Essays | Description and assessment |
| Oral tasks | Type (presentation and interaction) and assessment |
| Aural tasks | Type and assessment |
| Multiple Choice Questions | Design, use (formative & summative assessment) and validity |
| Data analysis | Use of in Linguistics including assessment of DA tasks |
| Study skills | |
| Teaching | Lecturing, tutoring, seminars, workshops, surgeries, |
| Group work | Tasks (projects, presentations etc), management and assessment |
| Simulations and role play | Description and assessment |
| Reflective learning | |
| Distance teaching | Pedagogical principles, design, communication, tasks, resources |
| Research methods training | |
| Exams (written) | Types: seen, unseen, take away; dictionary use |
| Exams (oral) | Types and assessment |
| Vivas | |
| Portfolios and PDP | Purpose, types, assessment |
| Projects | Types and assessment |
| Virtual Learning Environments | |
| Plagiarism | |
| Languages | Content |
| LWULT | Overview of UK provision |
| Community Languages in the UK | |
| Ab initio language courses | |
| Teaching Pronunciation | |
| Teaching Vocabulary | |
| Teaching Speaking | |
| Issues in teaching non Roman script |
e.g. Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Thai etc. |
| Area Studies | Content |
| The relationship of disciplines to Area Studies |
Literature, Politics, Sociology, Anthropology, Film, History, Geography, |
| Celtic Studies |
Overview and individual Irish, Scottish, Welsh etc. |
| Italian Studies | |
| Middle Eastern Studies | |
| Literary and Cultural Studies | |
| Teaching Literature in Modern Languages Programmes | |
| Teaching Literature in Translation | |
| Teaching pre-twentieth century literature | |
| Teaching comparative literature | |
| The restoration of cultural memory through the teaching of literature | |
| Linguistics | Content |
| Lexicology | |
| Anthropological linguistics | |
| Computational Linguistics | |
| Literature topics to be added |
Examples
For examples of articles, go to
- Reading in a second language (Catherine Walter)
- Interdisciplinarity (Dick Ellis)
- Design of a pedagogic grammar (Richard Towell)
Guidelines
Each article/case study should be between 1000 4000 words in length and must conform to the Subject Centre style guidelines. You may have work that you have created in the past which you may wish to repurpose for inclusion on our website.
- style guide: writing (Word doc, 203Kb)
- style guide: referencing (Word doc, 255Kb)
- case study guidelines (Word doc, 47Kb)
Submitting a proposal
If your proposal is selected by the Subject Centre, a fee of £200 will be payable when the article/case study is added to our online collection. To submit a proposal, complete the following short proforma:
- Name
- Institution
- Department
- Email address
- Teaching area
- Topic (selected from the list)
- Case study or article? (Please specify)
- Title
- Abstract (200 words max)
The deadline for receipt of proposals is 31 January 2005. Articles/case studies will be due by 30 April 2005.
