LINGUIST List 23.503 Wed Feb 01 2012 Calls: Applied Linguistics/ The Journal of Asia TEFL (Jrnl) Editor for this issue: Brent Miller <brentlinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.     Hikyoung Lee , The Journal of Asia TEFL Message 1: The Journal of Asia TEFL Date: 01-Feb-2012 From: Hikyoung Lee <jofasiateflgmail.com> Subject: The Journal of Asia TEFL E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: The Journal of Asia TEFL Call Deadline: 01-Apr-2012 Call for Papers The Journal of Asia TEFL Special Issue: Early English Education in Asia Deadline for abstracts: April 1, 2012 The Journal of Asia TEFL is planning a thematic issue on early English education at the policy and implementation levels across different geographical contexts in Asia. We invite empirical and theoretical papers that examine the effects, enactments, and consequences of teaching English to young children in Asian EFL/ESL contexts. Possible topics include (but will not be limited to): -Theories of young learners' foreign language learning/acquisition -Age factors and language learning -Cognitive and social developments and early English learning -Empirical studies of the effects of early English education -Development of various linguistic skills (e.g., listening, speaking, vocabulary, reading, etc.) related to age -Cross-linguistic influence/transfer -The roles of motivation and other affective factors in early English learning -Professional development for educators of young English learners -Assessment for young English learners -Early English education in multilingual contexts -Critical analyses of early English education policies -Classroom discourse in early English language classes -Political debates on the age of teaching foreign languages For consideration for this issue, please send an abstract of up to 300 words to guest editors Yuko Butler and Hikyoung Lee (jofasiateflgmail.com). The abstract should include the geolinguistic context, the issue under consideration, the research question/focus, the theoretical framing and/or a synopsis of findings, and conclusions. If the abstract is accepted, you will be invited to submit a paper due August 1, 2012, which will undergo normal peer review procedures. The issue is scheduled for publication in late 2012. The Journal of Asia TEFL is published by The Asia TEFL (The Asian Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language; http://www.asiatefl.org/journal/journal1.html) and is a peer-reviewed journal indexed in Scopus. Deadline for abstracts: April 1, 2012 Notification of abstract acceptance: April 20, 2012 Deadline for paper submission: August 1, 2012 Notification of paper acceptance: September 30, 2012 Final paper submission: November 1, 2012 Please direct correspondences to: jofasiateflgmail.com Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 01-Feb-2012       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.