[PN] Calls and CALL (26 Sept. 2003)

[Steve McCarty]

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* Calls for Papers

SUPPORTING THE LEARNER IN DISTANCE EDUCATION AND E-LEARNING
European Distance Education Network
Carl von Ossietzky University, Oldenburg, GERMANY
4-6 March, 2004 -- Call for Papers deadline: October 13, 2003
http://www.eden.bme.hu/contents/r-net/Oldenburg/oldenburg5.html

IEEE International Workshop on Wireless and Mobile
Technologies in Education (WMTE), March 23-25, 2004
National Central University, JungLi, Taiwan
http://lttf.ieee.org/wmte2003/
The proceedings to be published by IEEE Computer Society Press.
Submissions due: October 15, 2003
Assoc. Prof. Kinshuk kinshuk@inspire.net.nz
Chair, IEEE Learning Technology Task Force http://lttf.ieee.org/
Information Systems Dept., Massey University, New Zealand

SAALT 2004 FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
"Reflecting on the Past and Projecting in the future
in Language Learning and Teaching"
University of Transkei, SOUTH AFRICA, 30 June - 2 July 2004
Closing date for submissions of abstracts: 30 April 2004
Sub-themes: CALL, Language and identity, Language policy and planning,
Applied Linguistics, Textual studies, Assessment, and Language Research
Please send all abstracts and direct enquiries to the organizer:
Ms. Nombulelo Monoana : saalt04@yahoo.co.uk, fax: 047-5022625 or 5022554

CALL Electronic Journal: CALL-EJ Online has temporarily moved to:
http://www.clec2.ritsumei.ac.jp/english/callejonline/index.html
Please change your links or favorites/bookmarks if necessary
Call for E-Papers & Reviews: Deadline for the next issue is October 30th
Kazunori Nozawa, CALL-EJ Online Co-editor and Web Administrator
Professor, Ritsumeikan University, Faculty of Economics &
Graduate School of Language Education and Information Science
email: nozawa@ec.ritsumei.ac.jp
HP: http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/ec/~nozawa/index-e.htm

* New pan-Asian TEFL association

Asian Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language
(Asia TEFL)
If you join before November 1st the first year is free:
http://www.asiatefl.org/membership/mem_2.html
Its conference will be held November 7-8th in Pusan, South Korea.
http://www.asiatefl.org/

* Periodical articles concerning technology and literacy

The Early Catastrophe: The 30 million word gap by age 3
Betty Hart and Todd R. Risley, American Educator, Spring 2003
"In four years ... an average child in a professional family would have
accumulated experience with almost 45 million words, an average child
in a working-class family would have accumulated experience with 26
million words, and an average child in a welfare family would have
accumulated experience with 13 million words." The poorer children
also heard a larger percentage of negative or discouraging words.
http://www.aft.org/american_educator/spring2003/catastrophe.html

Framing a Democratic Agenda
By George Lakoff, The American Prospect, September 24, 2003
[Blatantly political, but this well-known linguist always
provides deep insight into language and cognition - Ed.]
"As a cognitive scientist, I've found in my research that ...
political worldviews can be understood as opposing models
of an ideal family - a strict father family and a nurturant
parent family. These family models come with moral systems,
which in turn provide the deep framing of all political issues."
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=16828

The Challenge and Opportunity of Technology
Interview with Mark Warschauer in English Teaching Forum
http://exchanges.state.gov/forum/vols/vol40/no4/p2.pdf

Many thanks for all the submissions, some of which will appear later,
and for messages of encouragement or glad that PN is continuing :-)

Collegially, Steve McCarty, Professor, Kagawa JC, Japan
Online library: http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve_mc/epublist.html
Please submit resources, events, publications, opportunities, new books,
articles, enquiries or ideas for PN to: steve_mc@kagawa-jc.ac.jp