New RF publications
I am pleased to have two book chapters out in quick succession:
Davcheva, L, Fay, R. and Byram M. (Dec 2011). Zones of interculturality in postgraduate doctorate supervision. In F. Derwin, A. Gajardo A. and Lavanchy, F. (eds.), Politics of interculturality,(pp.127-149). Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press.
Isbn13: 978-1-4438-3365-3 / Isbn: 1-4438-3365-7
http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/Politics-of-Interculturality1-4438-3365-7.htm
This volume also contains chapters by: Fred Dervin, Catherine Doherty, Roc=EDo Fuentes, Anahy Gajardo, Maria Kromidas, Anne Lavanchy, Anthony J. Liddicoat, Li Mu, Giusy Muzzopappa, Rafael Nieto, Pierluigi Taffon, Michael Wroblewski, Katrin Zotzman
For French readers, there is a sister volume also:
ANTHROPOLOGIES DE L’INTERCULTURALITE
Fred Dervin, Anahy Gajardo, Anne Lavanchy
Logiques sociales, L’Harmattan
Contributors: Martine A.-Pretceille, Laurent Bazin, Claudio Bolzman, Marc Debono, Fred Dervin, Doris Edelmann, Anahy Gajardo, Anne Lavanchy, Tania Ogay, Laurence Ossipow, Valerio Simoni.
http://www.editions-harmattan.fr/index.asp?navig=3Dcatalogue&obj=3Dlivre&no==3D35325=
The second chapter is as follows:
Sifakis, N. and Fay, R. (Nov, 2011). Integrating an ELF pedagogy in a changing world: the case of Greek state schooling. In A. Archibald, A. Cogo and J. Jenkins (eds.), Latest trends in ELF research. (pp.285-289). Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press. [cover pdf]
And the good news continues as the Abstract submitted for the Special Issue of Language Learning Journal has been accepted:
Dear Colleague, Thank you for submitting your abstract for the special issue of Language Learning Journal. We are pleased to invite you to develop this into an article. We have chosen articles which give the special issues – in fact there will probably be two – a range of approaches which we have categorised as follows:
Special issue I –
Introduction by editors
Articles which have an innovative theoretical dimension, based on empirical investigation ———————–
Stephanie Houghton — Competing values and multiple selves: Making identity-development visible for assessment purposes in foreign language education
Melina Porto — A model for describing, analyzing and investigating cultural understanding in EFL reading settings
Claudia Borghetti — Integrating Intercultural and Communicative Objectives in the Foreign Language Class. A proposal for the integration of two models
Cristina Ros i Solé — The Cosmopolitan language learner: perspectives from Lesser Taught Languages
Linda Hui Yang and Mike Fleming — An Empirical Investigation of How Chinese College Students Make Sense of Foreign Films and TV series: Implications for the Development of Intercultural Communicative Competence in ELT
Articles which demonstrate innovative curriculum change —————-:
María del Carmen Méndez García — The intercultural turn brought about by the implementation of CLIL programmes in Spanish monolingual areas: a case study of intercultural competence in Andalusian Primary and Secondary schools
Gillian Peiser and Marion Jones — The significance of Intercultural Understanding (IU) in the English Modern Foreign Languages curriculum: a pupil perspective
Karin Zotzmann – The Politics of Recognition versus the Politics of Redistribution: Intercultural Education after the ‘Cultural Turn’
Special issue II
Brief introduction
Teacher education —————————-:
Mónica Bastos & Mª Helena de Araújo e Sá — Pistes pour la formation des professeurs pour la Compétence de Communication Interculturelle – les voix des professeurs eux-mêmes (will be written in English)
Ana Sofia Pihno — Intercomprehension: A portal to teachers’ intercultural sensitivity
Courses and textbooks ————–:
Béatrice Cabau — Intercultural approach in a Hong Kong academic setting
Zia Tajeddin and Shohreh Teimournezhad — Hidden cultural agenda in L2 education: Representation of L1, L2, and cross-linguistic cultures in international and localized ELT textbooks
New technologies ——————-:
Robert O’Dowd — The Competences of the Telecollaborative Teacher
Paola Trejo & Richard Fay — Using wikis to develop generic cultural awareness amongst Mexican learners of English
We wish to stress that at this stage we do not guarantee inclusion until we have seen the first draft. Your article should be between 5500 and 7000 words – including references. Deadlines: First draft : 1 March 2012;
Comments and final decision by editors: 15 April 2012; Second draft : 30 June 2012. Given the larger number of articles than we anticipated it would help us if your drafts were submitted before the deadline. We look forward to working with you. Please confirm that you still wish to be included by return of email, Best wishes, Prue and Mike
I have been fortunately busy these last few months. With the rest of my CMIC colleagues, we submitted an abstract for a Special Issue of Intercultural Education journal and the abstract was accepted – meaning we now have to write it up by the end of March for the next stage of review.
More recently, and less advanced in the process, with Paola Trejo (MA alumnus), I submitted an abstract for a Special issue of language Learning Journal – still awaiting news on that one.
This week, as well as getting Narrative Matters submissions ready, I managed to submit my first ever ethnomusicology abstract (for a conference in Macedonia /FYROM) in April, news of acceptance or not comes on Jan 1st.
And finally, the Research Network funding bid for Doing Research Multilingually (DRM) has been successful. This was put in by Prue Holmes (Durham) and involves me, Jane, and other DRM-ists we hope. [Jane Andrews is leading on a DRM contribution for the BAAL 2011 Proceedings based on our DRM Panel in Bristol in September].
However, an abstract by Susan Brown and myself for a paper for the British Council’s Going Global 2012 event was unsuccessful. Also, the April trip with Elena Gomez and Mariam Attia to the Spanish Sahara refugee camps has had to be cancelled because of increasing dangers for foreigners in that region. So, you win some and you lose some 🙂
Meanwhile, with Ros Hawley I am working on a World Music Ensemble Methodology piece (similar to the above abstract for the ethnomusicology event) which brings my intercultural and TESOL-inspired concerns for appropriate methodology (as opposed to best method) and ethnographic study of our developing klezmer ensemble practices – this is my RAW work-in-progress right now.