LINGUIST List 21.3673 Fri Sep 17 2010 FYI: Call for Papers: Collected Volume ITA Development Editor for this issue: Elyssa Winzeler <elyssalinguistlist.org> To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.cfm. Directory         1.    Greta Gorsuch, Call for Papers: Collected Volume ITA Development Message 1: Call for Papers: Collected Volume ITA Development Date: 16-Sep-2010 From: Greta Gorsuch <greta.gorsuchttu.edu> Subject: Call for Papers: Collected Volume ITA Development E-mail this message to a friend Second Call for Papers Working Theories for Teaching Assistant and International Teaching Assistant Development Attention: Second Language Acquisition Specialists with an interest in advanced level learners What Working Theories Will Do This will be an edited, collected volume showcasing established and emerging scholars in the field of Teaching Assistant (TA) and International Teaching Assistant (ITA) education. Working Theories goes beyond reporting good practices or program descriptions, which typically comprises many books on TA and ITA development. Instead, Working Theories places time-tested, robust theories, frameworks, and models of TA and ITA learning and development at the center of graduate student education by providing a scholarly venue for description, explication, and application of these theories. In turn, these theories and models from psychology, sociology, pedagogy, discourse analysis, and second language learning will be presented in such as way as to inform good practice, but above all, motivate future research. General Description of Chapters Sought Chapters in this volume can be methodologically rigorous empirical studies or principled commentaries (although data-driven, empirical studies are preferred), with approachable, detailed descriptions of the rationale for the work, and the theory or model the work is based on. Descriptions of good practices, program descriptions or evaluations, or lesson plans are not appropriate for this volume. The word limit is 12,000. Abstracts will be due November 15, 2010 with full manuscripts due by July 15, 2011. Style guideline will be APA. Electronic submissions are encouraged: greta.gorsuchttu.edu Chapters will be edited by an in-house editor in addition to the volume editor. Thus this volume will be fully refereed and of high quality, and will be published as a book by New Forums Press, Inc., Stillwater, Oklahoma (USA), www.newforums.com Volume Editor Greta Gorsuch is an Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics & Second Language Studies at Texas Tech University, and has researched educational programs and ITA education for ten years. Her publications have appeared in English for Specific Purposes, Journal of Faculty Development, The Journal of Graduate Teaching Assistant Development, and Education Policy Analysis Archives, among others. She edited The Language Teacher (The Japan Association of Language Teaching) and has guest edited special issues of System and TESL-EJ. Please submit your abstracts to her at: greta.gorsuchttu.edu Project Overview Teaching Assistant (TA) and International Teaching Assistant (ITA) development remains an all-important field of inquiry in higher education, both for practical and theoretical reasons. This collected volume places time-tested, robust theories, frameworks, and models of TA and ITA learning and development at the center of graduate student education by providing a scholarly venue for description, explication, and application of these theories and models. In turn, these models from psychology, sociology, pedagogy, discourse analysis, and second language learning will be presented in such as way as to inform good practice, but above all, motivate future research. In terms of practical considerations, American higher education continues to be one of the largest and most developed education systems in the world. It remains one of the few settings globally in which individuals can obtain graduate degrees with the expectation of being supported through teaching assistantships. The majority of U.S. undergraduates receive direct instruction from American and international graduate student/teaching assistants, who in the process learn to teach within their content areas, and gain critical foundations for their professional identity. And, an increasing number of international graduate students from China, Korea, and India are teaching U.S. undergraduates chemistry, physics, math, and business, using their second or third languages to do so. In a simple, practical sense, the continued success of American higher education depends on effective development of TAs and ITAs, whether these efforts are informal and apprentice-like, or formal and achieved through organized programs. Principled study of TA development presents rich ground for theoretical reasons as well. Partly due to age and partly due to circumstance, graduate students, as teaching assistants, stand at a crossroads of deeply personal choices about learning, identity, vocation, and social standing not only within an institutional culture but within a global economy. For ITAs these choices are further mediated by their past English language education experiences, by the current linguistic demands of classroom communication, and by a future constrained by second language learning processes which are slow, yet dynamic. Given this, how do individuals learn how to be teachers? What steps do they take to organize content for the purpose of instruction? How do they learn to know what the institution they belong to expects of them? What is involved in learning the norms of communication within specific settings? How do second language learning processes operate within advanced level learners? What areas of language are learned at late stages, and how? What are the ways in which individuals negotiate new personal and cultural identities in compelling, normative circumstances? TAs and ITAs as a population can provide answers to many of these questions. What Makes this Book Different and how it will Contribute This edited, collected volume will bring together established and emerging scholars doing applied, theoretically grounded research in TA and ITA education. The overarching goal of the volume is to plot and guide research efforts and practice in TA and ITA education for the next 20 years, and thus deepen the professional base of the field. TA and ITA education should be recognized as a viable field of research, and attract doctoral students and established scholars who will come to specialize in these areas. Publisher New Forums Press, Inc. Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA www.newforums.com Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 17-Sep-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.