LINGUIST List 26.314
Fri Jan 16 2015
FYI: Call for Papers: Teaching the History of the English Language
Editor for this issue: Uliana Kazagasheva <ulianalinguistlist.org>
Date: 16-Jan-2015
From: Colette Moore <cvmoore
uw.edu>
Subject: Call for Papers: Teaching the History of the English Language
E-mail this message to a friend Teaching the History of the English Language
MLA Options for Teaching Series
Edited by Colette Moore and Chris C. Palmer
Proposal due: April 15, 2015
Contact: cvmoore
uw.edu, cpalme20
kennesaw.edu
Proposals are invited for a volume entitled Teaching the History of the English Language. As part of MLA’s Options for Teaching series, this collection aims to bring together a range of articles describing innovative and successful approaches to designing and teaching an undergraduate course on the History of the English Language (HEL). Such a course is a core offering within many English Studies programs, while also serving an important role in majors and minors in English Education, Writing, Rhetorical Studies, Linguistics, TESOL, and Interdisciplinary Studies. Reflecting this diversity of disciplinary contexts, the volume will be a resource for new and experienced teachers of the subject. It will provide suggestions for supplementary materials and pedagogical activities for a variety of student audiences in a range of university settings.
Contributions could cover topics under the broader headings of issues and definitions, course design, teaching strategies, and curricular contexts (the volume will also include a list of resources). Some essays may define a particular critical concept as it is relevant for the course (e.g., what is meant by history in an HEL course?) or explore pedagogical strategies for a core content area (e.g. teaching the Great Vowel Shift or the globalization of English). Other essays may tackle a more general approach to teaching the course (e.g. creating an HEL course with a literary studies focus) or to classroom techniques (e.g. strategies to engage students). Submissions may focus on one or more traditional subperiods of English - from Old English to the present day - or offer alternative approaches to teaching HEL beyond such canonical periodization. Pedagogical, literary, linguistic, or rhetorical theories applied to course design or teaching specific HEL topics are also welcome. As part of the Options series, every essay should make explicit how it will apply to the needs of teachers in preparing and teaching classes and of students in learning.
If you are interested in contributing an essay of between 2500-3000 words, please submit an abstract of 350-500 words by 15 April 2015. Your abstract should clarify your intended topic, its importance to the field of HEL pedagogy, and the types of evidence (e.g. sample assignments from a class you have taught) and/or theories you hope to explore. Please note that any quotations from student papers will require written permission from students. Your abstract should also address the value of your intended topic to a broad range of instructors in the field, as well as a broad range of students. Send proposals and inquiries about possible topics to the volume editors:
Colette Moore, University of Washington, cvmoore
uw.edu
Chris C. Palmer, Kennesaw State University, cpalme20
kennesaw.edu
Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; History of Linguistics
Subject Language(s):
English (eng)
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