2014 Language Education Policy Studies(TAIWAN)

Language Education Policy Studies

Theme 1: The Language of Peace, Connectedness and Harmony, its Potentials and its Limits

Theme 2: Comparing Language Curricula in Various Countries

Theme 3: Multimedia and Foreign Language Education

Language Education Policy is a burgeoning field of scholarship that grounds its legitimation on broad frameworks such as Language Policy, Education Policy, Curriculum Studies and Critical Language Studies. It needs to define its conceptual and philosophical orientations and its foundational purposes to receive increasing recognition by educators and the public in response to growing societal interests in globalization and local forms of school violence that manifest in the way languages are treated.

This call for papers invites submissions that take an overview of the field of Language Education Policy Studies as it may inform Peace Education, analyzing the emergence and gradual formation of concepts such as Harmony, Connectedness and Peace that habe an impact on Language Education Policies, examine the potentials and limitations of such policies, review the state of the field and envision possible futures. It encourages submissions that utilize multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary approaches to study and research.

A conceptual orientation is proposed to motivate language education curricula that transform school cultures into constructive learning communities and cultures of connectedness, harmony and peace.  Language Education Policies can help repair the contextual, psychological, ideological and social fabric of human lives and societies impacted by misconceptions based on language ideologies and language status that lead to miscommunication, discrimination, social divisions and human struggle throughout both developed and developing countries.

Spring 2014 Inleps will be held in KAOHSIUNG, TAIWAN

In the 85 Sky Tower On the Port of Kaohsiung near a beach

June 14 - The first day of the INLEPS Conference will be foundational and documentary. MORNING: All three themes of the Conference will be developed from a foundational perspective.

The AFTERNOON will present documentary-based papers that propose historical or critical text analyses that provide a serious ground for a higher-level orientation of language education policies that could have an impact in the classroom.

June 15 - The second day of the INLEPS Conference will present empirical work from applied linguists, applied semioticians and educators researching field data related to language education policies aligned with the three themes of the Conference:

Theme 1: The Language of Peace, Connectedness and Harmony, its Potentials and its Limits;

Theme 2: Comparing Language Curricula in Various Countries;

Theme 3: Multimedia and Foreign Language Education Policies.

Applications for the Conference as well as electronic submissions should be sent on Word.doc, Word.docx, or Word.rtf files to the Editors: ftochon@education.wisc.edu   

To apply for the Spring 2014 Inleps Conference, please send us:

1) Your name, position, institution, address, email

2) The tentative title of your paper

3) A 50-word summary of your paper for the Conference website

4) A 200-word summary of your paper for the program

5) A 100-word biosketch presenting who you are and your achievements

Deadline for applying: March 1st, 2014

Deadline for web registration: April 1st, 2014

A webpage will be open for the registration process and hotel reservation through the

Spring 2014 Inleps Conference director, Professor Yuangshan (Mike) Chuang

The Fall 2014 Inleps Conference will be held in Brisbane, Australia, next October.

Deep University Press will publish the Conference Proceedings. In particular, it invites manuscripts for a refereed book on Language Education Policy Studies and Peace, edited by Dr. Francois V. Tochon, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Dr. Mei Deming, Shanghai International Studies University. The goal is to bring together approaches that provide a  thorough examination of the discourse on Peace, Connectedness and Harmony from the perspective of Language Education Policy Studies in the regional, national, and international arenas.  We would like to offer a reference volume that can be used by teachers, educators, instructors, graduate students and researchers who are looking for substantial reflections to ground their LEP work in deeper linguistic, philosophical, anthrop­ol­ogical, semiotic, political and educational perspectives. It is hoped that submitted chapters will report work from across a broad set of perspectives, including structural, superstructural, or post-structural; and with a wide variety of research orientations and methodologies.

The submission deadline for the full paper is June 1st, 2014.

Publishing Guidelines

Papers must present innovative ways to orient the field of Language Education Policy towards the transdisciplinary goal of peace building locally, nation-wide and internationally. New findings or theoretical integration relevant to the book topic are welcome.

The main text of each manuscript, exclusive of figures, tables, references, and/or appendices, should not exceed 30 double-spaced pages (approximately 9,000 words).

Please present your paper in such a way that its content is informative and self-contained and can be used in courses on Language Education Policy studies, Linguistic Human Rights, or Language-in-Education. The relevant literature should be reviewed thoroughly and each chapter should be well grounded theoretically with a clear and original conceptual framework, and the case exploration should be original, instructive and compelling. If you are not sure about whether your proposal would fit this format, please contact the Editors for advice.

Deep University Press is seeking original articles that provide deep new orientations to various fields of study on current topics of special interest to Applied Linguists, Applied Semioticians, Educators and Researchers. All manuscripts will be refereed with a rigorous evaluation process involving at least two blind reviews by qualified academic professionals. Submissions will be judged not only on the suitability of the content, but also on the readability and clarity of the prose. All chapters are peer reviewed.

Deep University Press solicits only original contributions that have not been previously published or submitted elsewhere for review/publication. Chapters awaiting presentation or already presented at conferences must be revised—taking advantage of feedback received at the conference—and have a modified title to receive consideration. In an effort to reduce the reviewing cycle time, we only accept electronic submissions of manuscripts. To submit electronically, please include a Word file of your submission as an e-mail attachment addressed to Francois Victor Tochon, editor.

In the body of your e-mail message include the author(s) name(s), contact information for the corresponding author, and the title of your submission. Your submission will be acknowledged promptly via return e-mail. All contributions must be submitted in English. Manuscripts should have as little formatting as possible -- it all needs to be removed before we can work with it. Please be sure to specify in the cover letter that your submission is intended for the LEP for Peace topic.

Page 1 of the Initial Submission: Page 1 of your submission should contain the title of the chapter and should identify all authors, including authors' names, mailing addresses, and e-mail addresses. Authors' names should not appear anywhere else in the manuscript, except possibly as part of the reference list.

Page 2 of the Initial Submission: Page 2 of your submission should contain the title of the paper, followed by an Abstract that does not exceed about 150 words. The Abstract is followed by the text of the chapter.

Other Information: For the review process, authors should not include any biography or picture. These will only be required if the manuscript is accepted for publication. Any photos or illustrations should be submitted in separate files and should be high resolution, black and white. Color will only work for the online version. We won't be able to do that with the print version. You can also submit figures as jpg files. Figures must be prepared on professional applications rather than Word, of which default-figures can’t get quality printing. Please avoid colors, 3D and shadows in your figures.  High quality black & white is preferable, while high quality 25-50% grey shade can exceptionally be used if really needed.