Call Information:
AIUB Journal of Liberal Arts (AJLA) — a journal belonging to the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences of a a top-ranking, renowned private university of Bangladesh called American International University-Bangladesh (www.aiub.edu) — welcomes the submission of papers for its first issue on Applied Linguistics and Language Teaching. The deadline for manuscript submission is March, 31, 2012. The issue publication date is June 2012.
Possible topics can include, but are not limited to:
· English Language Teaching and Intercultural Communication
· Teaching and Learning of English as a Foreign/ Second Language
· Classroom Practice and Language Proficiency
· Cognitive Learning and Communication
· English Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age
· Methods for Teaching General English and for Teaching English for
Specific Purposes
· Teachers as Innovators and Facilitators
· Teaching materials and communicative language teaching and
learning
· Curriculum Development: A thought for Literary texts, texts of
Popular Culture and Information Technology
· English and New Trends in Higher Education
· Effective Teaching Methodologies in Language and Literature
Classrooms
· Assessment and Testing
· Interdisciplinary in Language Teaching and Learning
· Assessment Practices in Language Teaching
· Classroom Management
· English as an International Language
· Second Language Acquisition
· The Role of Culture in English Language Teaching and Learning
· Cultural Awareness in the Communicative Class
· Method, methodology and pedagogy development
· Content integrated language teaching
· Development of reading and writing skills
· Critical and creative pedagogy
· Cultural influences in teaching English
· Teaching English in large and under-resourced contexts
· Teacher and learner autonomy
· Translation studies: development, problems and solutions.
· Foreign language teaching and translation
· The digital
age and translation
· Globalization and translation
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SUBMISSIONS
· All articles should have an abstract between 150 and 250 words in length.
· Each paper should include no more than 5 keywords.
· The submission has been neither previously published, nor is it under consideration by another journal.
· Authors should include a cover page with the full title of the paper, the author's full name, author’s affiliation and address, e-mail address, postal address, phone number. The author's name should not appear elsewhere in the article.
· Each article should be double-spaced in 12 point font (Times New Roman) with 1 inch margins on all sides.
· The editors of AJLA reserve the right to make editorial changes in any manuscript accepted for publication for the sake of style or clarity. Authors will be consulted only if the changes are substantial.
· All submissions must conform to the requirements of the APA (American Psychological Association) is the most commonly used to cite sources within the social sciences. Authors are responsible for the accuracy of references and citations, which must be in APA format. Manuscripts may be rejected if they do not meet the APA requirements. The following web page can be used to obtain a condensed version of the guidelines:
· http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01
· Footnotes should be avoided.
· Authors should submit separately from the paper a four line bio.
· Authors of accepted manuscripts will assign to AJLA the permanent right to electronically distribute their articles, but they will retain their copyright. After the article has appeared in AJLA, authors may republish their texts as long as they clearly acknowledge AJLA as the original publisher and the only source for citation purposes.
Book Review Submission:
AJLA welcomes book reviews dealing with English language teaching and learning, linguistics, literature, translation, applied linguistics, second language acquisition, language assessment, socio- and psycholinguistics or other textbooks within the scope of AJLA.
The book review should be an engaging, informative, and critical discussion of approximately 800-1500-words and should provide description and substantive evaluation.
The header of the review should include:
· Author(s) or editor(s) first and last name(s)
· Title of book
· Year of publication
· Place of publication
· Publisher
· Number of pages
The review should consider the following:
· The key themes and major objectives of the book.
· The soundness of methods and information sources used.
· Informing the reader about what is happening in the topic area the book addresses; what the state of knowledge is in the subject; and how this new book adds, changes, or breaks new ground in our knowledge of this subject.
· Constructive comments about the strength and weaknesses of the book and.
· A comparison with other works on this subject.
It is understood that review manuscripts submitted to AJLA have not been previously published and are not under consideration for publication elsewhere.
At the end of your review, please include:
Your first and last name.
Institution affiliation.
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