Professional Service Sessions

Professional Service Sessions

(1) Publishing in Applied Linguistics Journals
Organizer: Sally Sieloff Magnan, Editor, The Modern Language Journal
Affiliation: University of Wisconsin-Madison

Sunday, March 23, 2003, 6:30-8:00 PM
Room: Commonwealth North 3

The session invites editors of applied linguistics journals to present their journals and describe their publication policies and practices. Topics will include: scope and audience of the journals, type of articles and other material published, submission policies, what reviewers look for in manuscripts, acceptance rates, publication processes, and editorial policies. Questions welcome.
The following editors have been invited to participate in the session:

Mary McGroarty (Annual Review of Applied Linguistics)
Claire Kramsch & Martin Bygate (Applied Linguistics)
Ilona Leki & Tony Silva (Journal of Second Language Writing)
Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig (Language Learning)
Dorothy Chun (Language Learning & Technology)
Dan Douglas & John Read (Language Testing)
Robert Fischer (CALICO Journal)
Sharon Lapkin & Heather Lotherington (CMLR)
Albert Valdman (Studies in Second Language Acquistion)
Carol Chapelle (TESOL Quarterly)
Srikant Sarangi (TEXT)

(2) Federal Funding Sources for Research in Applied Linguistics
Organizers:
Peggy McCardle, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Donna Christian, Center for Applied Linguistics

Monday, March 24, 2003, 12:30-1:50 PM
Room: Commonwealth North 3

This session will provide AAAL members with relevant information about federal funding sources that support research in applied linguistics. Representatives of federal agencies including the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the Department of Education will discuss funding opportunities and priorities for the current year and prospects for the future. Resource materials will be distributed.

(3) North American Systemic Functional Linguistics Association
Organizer: Bernard Mohan (Chair, NASFLA)
bmohan@pop.interchange.ubc.ca

Monday, March 24, 2003, 5:15-7:15 PM
Room: East 3

All are welcome to join an informal information session on Halliday's systemic functional linguistics. Discussion topics and bibliographies will include multimedia, discourse analysis, ape language, language education/reading, phonology, child language, social semiotics, artificial intelligence and computational linguistics.

(4) "What's Your Sign For...?": An Introduction to Variation in ASL
Organizers:
Ceil Lucas, Gallaudet University, CeilLucas@aol.com
Robert Bayley, University of Texas at San Antonio, rbayley@utsa.edu

Monday, March 24, 2003, 7:30-9:00 pm
Room: Cavalier A-B

A videotape and accompanying guide on variation in American Sign Language (ASL) will be presented. These materials are designed to introduce members of the Deaf community and the general public to the nature of sociolinguistic variation in ASL. The content of the materials is based on videotaped data collected as part of a seven-year project in which 207 signers in 7 sites across the United States were videotaped in natural conversation. The materials focus on phonological, syntactic, and lexical variation, and take their departure from work done by Labov (1982, The Principle of Debt Incurred) and by Wolfram and Schilling-Estes on the responsibility that researchers have to "make a strong social commitment to the language communities that have provided them with data" (1995: 717). Wolfram and Schilling-Estes propose the Principle of Linguistic Gratuity, whereby "Investigators who have obtained linguistic data from members of a speech community should actively pursue positive ways in which they can return linguistic favors to the community" (1995:717). These principles are of direct relevance to the American Deaf community, both because the community has been the site of numerous research investigations since the 1960s and because of a distinct need to increase level of metalinguistic awareness within the Deaf community. These materials are designed for laypersons, teachers and administrators in residential and mainstream programs for the deaf, deaf studies programs, and interpreter training programs. Since the tape has both voice-over and open captioning, the materials are also completely accessible to hearing laypersons, linguists, and practitioners, and may provide a useful model for spoken language professionals. The session will last one hour, including the viewing of the 23-minute tape.

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