Teaching English Reflectively with Technology
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Author Guidelines
The final articles should be 3,000-4,000 words, not including references and figures, following APA (American Psychological Association) format (http://apastyle.apa.org), the preferred style of the LT SIG newsletter LT as well as TESOL publications. See also https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/. APA style is primarily for references and citations.
Please see the previously emailed template (for a .docx version click here, and for a .doc version click here). Additional details on the format can be found in the template. Note in advance that any external graphics used (for example, screenshots) must include documentation of permission to publish. Use of student work must be by permission, with no personally identifiable information, and pseudonyms must be used as identifiers. For easy reference, the contents of the template appears below, but note that the formatting will be quite different.
We also include here the content of the generic portion of the email you should have received (assuming you sent in a proposal that was accepted):
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The full submission is due on August 20, 2014. Please do your best to meet that deadline. However, given our delays in getting feedback and formatting information to you, you may request an extension if you need it.
2. I have attached a template for writing your chapter. Read it carefully as the content is written into the template. After making a copy for reference, please type your paper directly into it if possible, replacing the current text (if you copy and paste, you’re likely to change the formatting, so be careful if you attempt that). We absolutely need your cooperation in submitting a paper in as close to the final form as possible—this is largely a volunteer effort. If a paper is not in such a form when we receive it, we’ll probably send it back. Those of you in the US, note that this is formatted for A4 paper. (If you have problems with the .docx template, you can download a .doc form from: http://web.stanford.edu/~efs/LTSIG-Book/AuthorGuide.html). We have a few mentors available if you would like some support in putting together your submission. These are scholars in the field who have experience both publishing their own papers and reviewing and editing others’ papers. If you are not sure you need one now, you can request one later. Let me know. See http://web.stanford.edu/~efs/LTSIG-Book/Mentoring.html for information on the mentor’s role.
3. Here is a reminder of some key points sent previously
a. Reflection is the overriding theme of the book, not just a buzzword in the title. Your paper needs to foreground that aspect. The reflection should not just be a paragraph or two that show up at the end.
b. In addition to supporting positive results, reflections should include challenges and problems that others might be expected to encounter if attempting something similar, especially if you have a potential solution. They should also show a sensitivity to the fact that any activity or application in language learning will work better with some students than others. Don’t overgeneralize.
c. If your paper involves teacher education, both your reflective process and outcome of it and those of the teacher candidates should be reported.
d. The style should be “teacher friendly”—although we hope to influence SLA and CALL researchers, they are not the target audience. If your paper is based on a serious research study (as some are), take this opportunity to explore and explain its practical significance.
e. The field of computer-assisted language learning (CALL) has been around for over 30 years and has a rich literature in both specialist and general journals as well as books. In your references, do not rely solely on general education or educational technology sources, or on language learning works that do not incorporate technology. To start, see http://web.stanford.edu/~efs/LTSIG-Book/Resources.html or search for relevant articles using Google Scholar or other engines.
f. If you’ve requested a mentor, be sure to make use of him or her for advice (but not to do your work for you—remember they’re volunteers). A mentor may also be requested later after receiving feedback on the full submission.
4. Make sure the paper you submit is finished and proofread. Don’t treat it as a “draft”. We will be making one of the following decisions once we’ve gone through it.
· Accept as is: this is unlikely, but possible.
· Minor revisions required: we hope this is what we’ll get for most of the papers.
· Major revisions required: we think the idea has merit, but it’s missing something significant, has pervasive language or style issues, has parts that are unclear, overstated, unsubstantiated, etc., or does not demonstrate sufficient reflective teaching
· Revise and resubmit: this will occur when a paper is too long, is not formatted (more or less) properly, or in some other way does not follow the stated guidelines. We’ll be able to see this quickly so that you can make the needed changes and get it back to us quickly for a full review.
· Reject: we hope we won’t have to do this on the initial round, but if the submission does not fit the theme of the book, then it has to go; this option may also be used in the second round if the changes requested have not largely been made. We don’t have time for a long cycle of review and revision, but it is our plan to publish as many of the proposed papers as possible.
Please note that I (Phil Hubbard -- efs@stanford.edu) will be your primary contact during this part of the project. However, once you are ready to submit your finished paper, please send it to both Sophie (sophiecy@yahoo.com) and me.
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Reflections on Reflective Teaching: A New Hope
Mark
Zuckerberg, Facebook, USA
Albert Einstein, Princeton University, USA
ABSTRACT
Write your abstract here in Verdana 10: A maximum of 100 words (75 would be just fine). In fact, you’ll be using Verdana 10 throughout (except for the title (Verdana 14 bold) and the author name and institution (Verdana 12). Note that the easiest way to use this template is to simply type your own information over the stuff we’ve put here as a placeholder.
INTRODUCTION
Here is where your introduction should go (obviously). Use single spacing for the main material since space is at a premium. Make sure the introduction doesn’t just repeat the abstract—they serve different purposes
For other paragraphs under the same heading, don’t skip a line. Instead, just indent five characters. It’s important that you follow these directions—we don’t want to spend a lot of time reformatting papers so that they look similar to one another.
In fact, if you don’t format your paper according to these guidelines, we’re likely to send it right back. That will also happen if it’s longer than the limit (4000 words, not including references) or has more than two figures or tables. We can stretch that to three maybe if they’re very small).
NEXT MAIN HEADING
You’ve probably noticed by now that main headings are in caps and bold. This isn’t exactly APA style but we think it looks nice. If you want to use subheadings, you’ll do it like this.
An Example of a Subheading
Notice that these have a space before and after, but they don’t use periods. Because the papers are short, we are asking that you not use more than one level of subheading. If you absolutely have to for some reason, then you can do it like this.
An Example of a Sub-subheading
These, if they appear, will also have spaces on both sides. Note that there are no periods at the end or anything like that.
ANOTHER MAIN HEADING
So you’ll probably have three or four of these in the body of the paper. Depending on your paper, one toward the end may be labeled “Reflections”, but we hope to see evidence of reflection throughout most of the paper.
OK, HERE’S THE THIRD MAIN HEADING
You’ll have to copy and paste if you need a fourth. Note that for some of the papers in this volume, this will probably be a variant of the DISCUSSION section found in standard research papers.
CONCLUSION (or some other obvious signal that you’re ending, like FINAL REMARKS)
If you’ve done a good job explaining and providing your reflections throughout, then this should only be one or two paragraphs. It’s your opportunity to provide the readers with a useful “takeaway”.
REFERENCES
[Remember that you need at least five and no more than 15 of these. Use APA format indented as noted below. For information, see https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/06/. This site will also help you with in-text citations, like “as shown in Kern (1995)” or “can be particularly useful (Warschauer, 2000)”. See also https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/10for advice on citing online sources]
Kern, R. (1995). Restructuring classroom interaction with networked computers: Effects on quality and characteristics of language production. Modern Language Journal, 79(4), 457-476.
Warschauer, M. (2000). Online learning in second language classrooms: an ethnographic study. In M. Warschauer & R. Kern (Eds.), Network-based language teaching: Concepts and practice (pp. 41-58). New York: Cambridge University Press.
Given the nature of this book, many of you will be referring to online resources and tools. Try to be selective, mentioning the ones you refer to directly in your work rather than loading the paper up with dozens. For now, in the interest of being reader friendly (rather than following APA format), we will allow these to be incorporated into the text. Unless they are an actual reference (like a paper, blog, etc.), you do not need to repeat them in the reference list. Also, for now, when using very common references like Twitter, Facebook, PowerPoint, and so on, you do not need to include the TM for trademark or, in the case of software like PowerPoint, the source website. We can add these later if we need to.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Put your bio and contact information here (not indented, skip a line for multiple authors). For single authored papers, you may have a 75-word bio. For multiple authors, the limit is 50 words per person. Put your preferred email address at the end (this doesn’t count against your 50 or 75 words), e.g. Email: phubbard@stanford.edu.
APPENDIX, APPENDICES
Don’t plan on having these—we don’t have the space. If you want to make additional material available, either put it up on a website and give the URL, or tell the reader they can contact you and you’ll email it to them.
A WORD ABOUT FIGURES AND TABLES
OK, this isn’t a section…For now, just place figures and tables where you expect them to be in the final version. Be sure that they have a description and are referred to in the text. If you have screenshots (that you actually have permission for) you should also send us a bmp or other high quality format version. A lot of these things look really different when they’re printed. And they will not be in color in the print version, so please adjust accordingly. Don’t refer, for example, to items in blue or red on a chart—they’ll be in gray.