Pragmatics in Language Learning, Theory and Practice
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This volume is a collection of contemporary articles that delineate the role of pragmatics in the process of language learning, the on-going development of language/linguistic theory, and the innovations of pedagogical practice.
The goal of this volume is to demonstrate the ways in which pragmatics is an integral part of the development of communicative competence so that educators, learners and researchers will understand its importance. Contributions may focus on any target language but the submission must be written in English. The intended audience will be teachers, researchers and others interested in “how people do things with words”.
Article selection will be done by blind review using the same scoring criteria as other current JALT publications.
Original, unpublished submissions can be made to any of the following three sections:
Section 1)
Pragmatics in language learning and development: (15 pages, or 5000 words). Articles in this section will provide an overview of research on pragmatic development and will provide insight into how pragmatic development fits into language learning.
Section 2)
Pragmatic contributions to language theory: (15 pages, or 5000 words). Articles in this section will highlight some of the ways that pragmatics research is at the heart of developments in language theory.
Section 3)
Pedagogical innovations with a pragmatic focus (six pages, or 1500 words). These short articles will take some area of pragmatics such as turn taking, forms of address, implicature, conversational functions such as greetings and leaving takings, as well as speech acts within an activity that may focus on comprehension, awareness, or production. Each submission in this section should follow this format:
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Title
·Author and Affiliation
·Level
·Time (in minutes, or if a lesson sequence, number of lessons and minutes)
·Resources (materials, preparation needed by teachers or students)
·Goal (Brief statement of the goal of the particular learning activity). Keep this very short—two or three sentences at most, maybe in point form.
·Description of the activity (Help reader visualize the activity) Short.
·Procedure (Concise step-by-step outline of the activity—a lesson plan for the activity).
·Rationale (the reasoning behind the activity—the theoretical, empirical, or pedagogical explanation of the approach with one or two references if pertinent)。This part should be the longest part of the contribution.
·Variations, Caveats, or Reflections (Share your variations, caveats or reflections on using this activity)
·(optional) copy ready master sheet
·The total contribution should not exceed six pages, or 1500 words.
You may submit your contribution as attachments via email (MS Word documents or in rich text format) or as hard copy with a floppy disk via regular mail. In either case include your name, full mailing address, work, and home telephone, fax and email address in a cover letter/the email message AND on the first page of the document.
Contributors may submit more than one teaching activity for consideration. Manuscripts will be acknowledged upon receipt.
Send contributions to:
The Editors, Pragmatics in Language Learning, Theory and Practice
c/o Dr. Donna Tatsuki
Kobe City University of Foreign Studies, Department of Anglo/American Studies
9-1 Gakuen Higashimachi, Nishi-ku, Kobe-shi, 651-2187 JAPAN
Tel. 078-794-8208
Email: dhtatsuki@rapid.ocn.ne.jp
Deadline for submissions: August 30, 2004
