Paul Kei Matsuda
http://matsuda.jslw.org/

Job Ad: Assistant Professor in Historical/Comparative Linguistics

Assistant Professor in Historical/Comparative Linguistics

Required: Ph.D. in Linguistics or a related discipline; college-level teaching experience; and evidence of a compelling record of ongoing, high quality research and publication in Historical/Comparative linguistics. A demonstrated interest in the history of English.

Desired: Experience using historical and contemporary corpora in research and teaching; a demonstrated interest in non-European languages.

Teaching load is 2/2 for tenure-track faculty with a significant research agenda. Teaching opportunities are at undergraduate, Master’s, and PhD levels. Candidates will be expected to teach relevant courses on historical and comparative linguistics and typology.

The appointment will be in the Department of English (http://www.asu.edu/clas/english). Arizona State University is a large metropolitan university with programs in linguistics housed in various departments.

Applicants must send: Cover letter, vita, names and contact information for three professional references. Send to: Chair of Historical/Comparative Linguistics, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-0302. Application Deadline (no faxes or emails): postmarked by October 13, 2008; if not filled, then every Monday thereafter until the search is closed. A background check is required for employment. Arizona State University is an equal opportunity employer (AA/EOE).

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Job Ad: Assistant Professor: Second Language Acquisition Syntax

Assistant Professor: Second Language Acquisition Syntax

Required: Ph.D. in Linguistics or a related discipline; college level teaching experience; and a evidence of ability to maintain a compelling record of ongoing, high quality research and publication in Second Language Acquisition Syntax.

Teaching load is 2/2 for tenure-track faculty with a significant research agenda. Teaching opportunities are at undergraduate, Master’s, and PhD levels. The appointment will be in the Department of English. Arizona State University is a large metropolitan university with programs in linguistics housed in various departments.

Applicants must send: Cover letter, vita, three letters of recommendation, and a brief sample of relevant academic writing. Application Deadline (no faxes or emails): postmarked by October 9, 2008; if not filled, then every Monday thereafter until the search is closed. A background check is required for employment. Arizona State University is an equal employment employer (AA/EOE).

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DePalma, Ringer and Webber

"(Re)Charting the (Dis)Courses of Faith and Politics, or Rhetoric and Democracy in the Burkean Barnyard," an article co-authored by three of my former students at the University of New Hampshire, just appeared in the latest issue of Rhetoric Society Quarterly (38.3).

Congratulations to Mike DePalma, Jeff Ringer and Jim Webber!

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An Article on Asia TEFL 2007

Here is an article on Asia TEFL 2007, published in The Star, a newspaper in Malaysia.

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Interview

As I was searching for something else on the web, I found an interview that I had earlier this year with ESL Globe.

The title is: "What Strategies or Instructional Approaches are Particularly Effective for Second Language Writers?"

Because it happened at the busiest time of the year, I had almost forgotten that I had done this.

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L2 articles in the Journal of Basic Writing

The latest issue of the Journal of Basic Writing (27.1) includes two articles that focus substantially on second language writing:

"Assessment of Generation 1.5 Learners for Placement into College Writing Courses" by Kristen di Gennaro.

"Feedback on Feedback: Exploring Student Responses to Teachers' Written Commentary" by Maria Ornella Treglia.

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Graduate Junction

I received a message from Dan Colegate at University of Durham, UK, who has created an interesting new website for graduate student networking. I'm posting the following at his request:

The Graduate Junction is the first website to bring together Masters, Doctoral and Postdoctoral researchers and scholars from any discipline across the globe. The Graduate Junction’s aim is to provide an easy way of meeting and discussing research interests with others in a multi-disciplinary environment, alongside comprehensive listings of information relevant to the graduate research community.

The Graduate Junction is still very new so if you can't find lots of other researchers who share your interests straight away, simply leave some details on your profile page so that others can find you as the community grows.

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CFP: Special Issue on Corpus-Based Writing Research (Journalf of Writing Research)

Stephanie A. Schlitz
Assistant Professor, English and Linguistics
117B Bakeless Hall
Bloomsburg, PA 17815
sschlitz@bloomu.edu
570.389.4974

Journal of Writing Research
(JoWR, http://jowr.org/)

Special Issue: Exploring a Corpus-Informed Approach to Writing Research

Call for Proposals:

Since the development of the Brown Corpus in the 1960s, leveraging language corpora and corpus-based methods to analyze and to describe spoken and written language has become an established tradition within the broad field of linguistics.

Writing researchers as well have begun extending corpus methods to L1 and L2 writing research. Research teams in the U.K. and the U.S., for example, have begun designing large reference corpora of student writing. The developers of the British Academic Written English Corpus suggest that the corpus "has the potential to chart growth patterns such as whether students’ arguments became more complex as their education advanced, whether students learned to integrate material from different sources in formulating conclusions, and whether students’ vocabulary became more specialized and precise" (Nesi et al. 446). And the forthcoming Michigan Corpus of Upper-Level Student Papers aims to provide a corpus of 1.6 million words written by students and to offer researchers the opportunity to quantitatively and qualitatively examine student writing in areas as diverse as writing development, genre variation, and disciplinary differences ("MICUSP").

The trend toward a corpus-informed approach to writing research also continues on a smaller scale. Given the ease with which individual teachers and researchers can create and mine corpora using text analysis software such as TextSTAT or WordSmith Tools, the development of small corpora by writing teachers who adopt the role of compiler-analyst is providing another avenue for corpus-informed writing research.

Yet, because corpus methods are relatively new to the field of writing research, there have been very few comprehensive discussions of the work in this area. The aim of this special JoWR issue, therefore, is to bring together teachers and researchers from a myriad of perspectives in an effort to explore the emerging field of corpus-informed writing research.

We invite papers covering a range of related topics, including discussions of the development of large, small, and parallel writing corpora; papers exploring the kinds of questions examined via
corpus research (e.g. diction and style, citation practices, usage, stylistic variation and its relationship to author gender, etc.); papers examining corpus methods (e.g. frequency lists, concordancing, examination of sociolinguistic variables, etc.) in the context of writing research; explanations of current and ongoing research; as well as discussions of the critiques surrounding a corpus-informed approach to writing research and the corpus-inclined researcher’s response to them. Authors are asked to write papers for a broad audience including readers with little or no corpus study familiarity.

Deadline for proposals (500-750 words in abstract form) is October 15, 2008. Proposers will receive initial notification by November 15, 2008. Final papers will be due by February 15, 2009.

Prior to acceptance, all final papers will undergo peer review as defined by JoWR’s peer review policy.

Proposals should be sent to: TBA

References

"MICUSP." University of Michigan English Language Institute. 12 Nov. 2007. http://www.micusp.org/.

Nesi, Hilary, Gerard Sharpling, Lisa Ganobcsik-Williams. "Student papers across the curriculum: Designing and developing a corpus of British student writing." Computers and Composition 21 (2004): 439–450.

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Job Ad: Full Professor of English Language Development in Middle and High Schools

English Education

Full Professor: English Language Development in Middle and High Schools

Required: Ph.D. in English Education, Linguistics, English as a Second Language, Bilingual Studies, or a related discipline; teaching experience at the middle or high school level, evidence of successful college teaching; research and publications appropriate to rank, and evidence of a continuing research agenda related to the development of language skills in both native and non-native English speakers grades six through twelve.

Desired: Research and experience in teaching English to native speakers of Spanish; demonstrated success in advising and conducting research with doctoral students, and in extending research into local secondary schools.

Teaching load is 2/2 for tenure-track faculty with a significant research agenda. Teaching opportunities are at undergraduate, Master’s, and PhD levels. The appointment will be in the Department of English, which collaborates with the ASU College of Education in preparing English teachers for grades six through twelve.

Applicants must send: Cover letter, vita, three letters of reference and a list of three other referees who may be contacted via telephone to Chair, English Education Search Committee, Department of English, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-0302. Application Deadline (no faxes or e-mails): Postmarked by Nov. 3, 2008, if not filled, then every Monday thereafter until the search is closed. All applications acknowledged. A background check is required for employment. AA/EOE

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Job Ad: Associate or Full Professor of Rhetoric and Composition

Writing Programs Director/Advanced Associate or Full Professor of Rhetoric and Composition

The Department of English at Arizona State University (http://www.asu.edu/clas/english) seeks an experienced writing programs administrator and accomplished scholar-teacher with an established record of outstanding scholarship and professional contributions to any area of Rhetoric and Composition. ASU is a Research I institution with outstanding research facilities and infrastructure support, and is located within the rapidly growing and dynamic metropolitan Phoenix area. Our English department is a large and diverse unit of faculty committed to excellence in teaching, to new and exciting research, and to ongoing community engagement.

Required: Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition, or related discipline; experience as a lead writing programs administrator; college-level teaching experience appropriate to rank; evidence of ability to teach and develop graduate and undergraduate courses in Rhetoric and Composition; and a compelling record of ongoing, high-quality scholarship in any area of Rhetoric and Composition.

Desired: Outstanding record of scholarship and publications on topics related to writing program administration.

Applicants must send: Cover letter, curriculum vita, names of three references with contact information to Chair of Writing Programs Director/Rhetoric and Composition Search Committee, Department of English, Arizona State University, P.O. Box 870302, Tempe, AZ 85287-0302.

Application Deadline (no faxes or e-mails): Postmarked by September 26, 2008; if not filled, then every Monday thereafter until the search is closed. All applications acknowledged. ASU is an affirmative action/equal employment opportunity employer and is dedicated to recruiting a diverse faculty community. A background check is required for employment.

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Call for Nominations: The 2008 Advancement of People of Color Leadership Award

In response to a recommendation of the Task Force to Advance and Support Members of Color, the NCTE Executive Committee established the Advancement of People of Color Leadership Award. The NCTE Advancement of People of Color Leadership Award (APCL) is a special award given to an NCTE member of color who has made a significant contribution to NCTE and the development of our professional community. The award was established in 2007 and will be first presented in 2008.

The NCTE Executive Committee has asked that nominations be solicited. Council members may self-nominate or nominate any Council colleague.

Please send your nominations, with a brief commentary (maximum one page) on the qualities and services of the nominee to:

Diane Waff, Chair
Advancement of People of Color Leadership Award Subcommittee
NCTE
1111 W. Kenyon Road
Urbana, IL 61801-1096

Deadline for your nomination is September 15, 2008.

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Last update: January 6, 2008