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Call for Essay Proposals for Volume on Study AbroadEssay proposals are invited for a volume in the MLA Teaching Languages, Literatures, and Cultures series entitled Study Abroad: Traditions, Directions, and Innovations, to be edited by Miriam Fuchs, Yves Loiseau, and Sarita Rai. As a resource for both teachers and administrators, the volume will examine three distinct, related areas of study-abroad classes and programs: theories and practices of language-based curricula, theories and practices of thematic and content courses taught in English or the students’ first language, and program development and study abroad within the university structure. Specifically, part 1 will feature essays on and descriptions of language pedagogies and theories, languages of instruction, paradigms, and pilot programs in study-abroad language courses. Examples might include course descriptions of learning through social networks, student-learning blogs, multilingual Web sites, and real-time models; integrative language, culture, and literature methodologies; and syllabi that demonstrate various course formats, site locations and languages, durations of study and modes of visits abroad in new global contexts. Part 2 will have essays on study-abroad programs in which the host languages are not taught and the emphasis is on instruction of content-specific or cultural-specific materials taught in English or the students’ first language. Essays in this section might describe theories, practices, and syllabi used in different types of student engagement and learning in various fields; students’ use of technology; and opportunities for international service learning and internships. Part 3 will concern study abroad and the university. Essays in this category might examine the relations between academic personnel and university officials; the integration of study-abroad courses in university curricula; and the role of study-abroad teaching assignments to faculty scholarship, departmental responsibilities, and service. Please e-mail short summary proposals to Miriam Fuchs (miriam@hawaii.edu), Yves Loiseau (yloiseau@uco.fr), or Sarita Rai (sarita@hawaii.edu) by 30 November 2012. You may also send proposals by regular mail to Miriam Fuchs, Department of English, University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa, 1733 Donaghho Road, Honolulu, HI 96822.
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