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>From: "Ross, Andrew" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: "'Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum'"     <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Reviewers needed for the IALL Journal of Language Learning Techno logies
>Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 15:09:31 -0500

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Dear LLTIers:

Samantha Earp, the new IALL Journal Editor-in-Chief, has asked me, the new
IALL Journal Associate Editor, to begin the process of recruiting peer
reviewers for the Journal.  I have written to the heads of the IALL regional
groups for suggestions and nominees, and now would like to open the call to
the IALL membership at large.

First, a big "Thank you!" is in order to those people who have reviewed
articles for publication in the Journal in the past year or so -- Jenise
Rowekamp, Claire Bradin Siskin, Bruce Parkhurst and Kate Granrose.  Without
their keen eyes and editorial sense, the Journal would serve the needs of
our profession much less well than it does.  The IALL Journal Editorial
Board and all of us who read and use the Journal appreciate your commitment
to our group and to our field.  I would like to invite all of our current
reviewers to renew their commitment to an IALL Journal that is
intellectually and technically innovative, that meets the needs of our
growing field, and that will serve as the flagship publication not only for
IALL, but for all language technology professionals.  We need your help to
take the Journal to its next stage of development.

Our range of reviewers needs to reflect the international status of the
Journal -- only with a broad spectrum of readerly input will we avoid
becoming a parochial publication that serves the needs of only a few.  The
Journal's commitment is not to a region, nor to a country, but to language
technology professionals worldwide.  That said, I would like to invite LLTI
list members to volunteer (or, if you're feeling puckish, to nominate a
friend) to become an IALL Journal reviewer.  The commitment in terms of time
and energy is not overwhelming -- as we put together a larger group of
reviewers, we will be able to spread the workload out so that a peer
reviewer, depending on his or her area of expertise, might be asked to
review one or two articles during a calendar year.

Again, please accept my thanks for all your efforts on behalf of IALL.  I
look forward to hearing from all of you soon, and to corresponding with you
further.

Best,

a.

Andrew F. Ross, Ph.D
Director, Multimedia Language Lab
G15 Puryear Hall
University of Richmond,  VA   23173
Tel: (804) 287-6838
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