Call for Papers For
one of next year's issues of JLLT, a documentation of new explorations into the
field of Contrastive Linguistics is planned. For this reason, our readers are
hereby asked to submit articles on Contrastive Linguistics or Error Analysis, respectively.
After
its creation in the 1950's, the failure of Ferguson's Contrastive
Structure Series in the US in
the 1950's and 1960's and a long academic discussion of potential outcomes of
Contrastive Linguistics (CL) in the 1970's and 1980's, CL presently seems to be
out-of-date. Is this impression, based on current research activities, true? Or
is there still more to CL than we think?
The
following guiding questions may be researched upon:
- Are there any new
research activities in your country which feature or refer to CL?
- Is there any evidence
which shows that CL has been treated unduly, i.e. does it have more
potential than what has been attributed to it?
- Are there any research
projects, such as PhD theses, going on which feature CL?
- Would it be promising
to restart and intensify research on CL?
- Is it possible for
researchers or language teachers to define language pairs which CL is
especially apt for, or others for which it is of not much use or even
detrimental?
- At which level of
linguistics can CL (still) be of help?
- What about vocabulary
acquisition via CL? Are there any new findings which would be worthwhile
being communicated to a broad public?
- What are your
experiences as teachers using some features of CL in your foreign language
classrooms? Are these features helpful to your students? If so, in what
way? Can this potential aid be described or even scientifically verified?
- Are there any
currently used or new language textbooks which, explicitly of implicitly,
are based on CL?
- Is there any possible
link between CL and learner motivation?
- Is CL a field of
linguistics which should be and remain forgotten in the future or should
it be revitalised?
- Any other question
which may be of interested in the context described.
Please
send your manuscripts for this special issue of JLLT to:
linguisticsandlanguageteaching@googlemail.com
by March 31st, 2011.
Of course, apart from this call for papers, we are happy to
continuously receive manuscripts on any other field covered by JLLT and
which can be found under: http://sites.google.com/site/linguisticsandlanguageteaching/scope .
Looking
forward to receiving, reading, and publishing your manuscripts,
Thomas
Tinnefeld
JLLT
Editor |