--- Forwarded Message from Julie Belz <[log in to unmask]> --- >Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 09:32:17 -0500 >To: [log in to unmask] >From: Julie Belz <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Call: Internet-mediated Intercultural Foreign Language Education >Cc: [log in to unmask] We seek submissions of original research on Internet-mediated intercultural foreign language education for the 2005 volume of the American Association of University Supervisors and Coordinators (AAUSC) published by Heinle & Heinle. An example of internet-mediated intercultural foreign language education would be email, chat, or videoconfereing projects between classes of language learners in France and the United States. (Partnerships can involve any languages, any countries.) The full call for papers can be accessed here: http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/j/a/jab63/2005aausccall.html We are particularly interested in receiving submissions involving learners of less commonly taught languages such as Arabic, Russian, Chinese, Korean, Greek, Vietnamese, etc. We would be very interested in submissions involving partnerships in which English is not one of the target languages, e.g. a Turkish-German exchange, an Arabic-Hebrew exchange. Send inquiries to Julie Belz ([log in to unmask]) and Steven L. Thorne ([log in to unmask]) asap. 400 word abstracts by June 1, 2004. Full manuscripts by Sept. 1 2004. blind peer review. -- Julie A. Belz http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/j/a/jab63/homepage.html Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics and German Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures Program in Linguistics and Applied Language Studies Center for Language Acquisition, Affiliate Penn State University 311 Burrowes Building University Park, PA 16803 814.865.5481