LANGUAGE IN INDIA

CONTACT EDITOR

INSTITUTES & DEPARTMENTS OF LINGUISTICS, INDIAN LANGUAGES, SPEECH AND HEARING, AND ENGLISH LITERATURE! SEND YOUR ANNOUNCEMENTS TO APPEAR IN THIS PLACE!!

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CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF INDIAN LANGUAGES
DEPARTMENT OF SECONDARY AND HIGHER EDUCATION
Ministry of Human Resource Development Government of India
MANASAGANGOTRI, HUNSUR ROAD, MYSORE - 570006

A PROGRAMME ON DESIGNING AND PUBLISHING ONLINE RESEARCH JOURNALS (to Train Researchers in Linguistics, Indian Languages, English and Adjacent Sciences) July 5-9, 2005.

The Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL), Mysore is glad to announce holding a workshop on Designing and Publishing Online Research Journals to Train Researchers in Linguistics, Indian Languages, and English and Adjacent Sciences from July 5 to July 9, 2005. The workshop will be held at the Central Institute of Indian Languages.

Dr. M. S. Thirumalai, a former deputy director and professor of this Institute, will direct this workshop.

It is preferred that the participants of the workshop should have some previous knowledge and experience in using a computer, and in word processing, and drafting, sending and receiving e-mails. The medium of the Workshop is English. Please do not plan to attend this workshop if you do not have this pre-requisite qualification.

The participants will learn the following:

1. The characteristics and structure of a web page.
2. The use of Note Pad and Word Pad, as well as some introduction to a few HTML code formatting software.
3. The formatting codes needed to design a simple web page with running texts as well as linguistic symbols, etc.
4. The formatting codes to insert various links, including images.
5. The design of a simple online research journal in linguistics or adjacent sciences.
6. The internal stylistic characteristics of a journal, and how these characteristics can be adopted for the web page.
7. How to upload and download web pages.
8. How to maintain an online journal.
9. Other related issues.

This is an intensive, hands-on training workshop. The goal of the workshop is to enable the participants to produce at least one issue of their imaginary journal with at least five articles, and a home page. They will also link their journal issue with the journal issue prepared by another participant of the workshop. Time permitting, they will also prepare a web page giving the index of articles, etc. They will be trained to upload and maintain their issues.

Those who are really motivated to learn are welcome. They may bring with them at least two new articles of their own, and three articles of others in the electronic format. If they do not have their own laptop, they have to be prepared to work during the night or morning in the CIIL computer lab in order to finish their daily home work, which will be heavy.

Most of participants' time will be spent not on listening to lectures, but on actually working on your web pages! Strict discipline will be enforced.

Here is an opportunity to learn first hand from the person who has been publishing LANGUAGE IN INDIA http://www.languageinindia.com for the last 5 years. This journal receives 186,000 hits every month (currently a little over 200.000 hits) and is accessed in over 75 countries.

The university/college departments are encouraged to send their personnel for this training so that they can easily design, upload and run their journals. Contact

Dr. B. Mallikarjun, mallikarjun@ciil.stpmy.soft.net

for registration and for other details such as accommodation, etc.

Registration will be done on first come first serve basis.

There is no registration fee.

Seats are limited.

Prof. Udaya Narayana Singh, Ph.D.
Director, Central Institute of Indian Languages.

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Call for Papers

South Asia Language Review: Special Issue on `Second and Foreign Language Learning"
Guest Editor for this volume: Dr. A.R.Fatihi

South Asian Language Review (SALR), a bi-annual journal published by IILS in India invites contributions on the theme of Second and Foreign Language Learning. This special issue will focus on the fundamental theoretical issues in language learning such as child, second and foreign language acquisition, language education, bilingualism, literacy, language representation in mind and brain, culture, cognition, pragmatics and inter and intra group relations.

Papers are solicited in areas which include, but are not limited to the following topics:

1. Investigating Language Learning Theorie.:

2. Formal Instruction and Language Learning.

3. Attitudes, Orientations, and Motivations in Language Learning: Theory, Research, and Application.

4. Bilingualism: Motivational Orientations and Self-Determination.

5. Acculturation attitudes in Second Language Acquisition.

6. Second language acquisition and computer-assisted language learning.

7. Error Analysis 8. Lexical Approach to Second Language Teaching.

Submission Requirements:

Authors are requested to submit an original paper in not more than 3000 words (15 pages) by August 15, 2005. Format preferred: MS Word (doc or rtf files) and if possible a pdf/ps file too.

Style-sheet:

Refer to the style-sheet of `Language'

Email submissions: fatihi_ar@indiatimes.com or fatihi_ ar@yahoo.com.in, onkoul@sify.com, umarani@pitt.edu.

Notification of acceptance will be sent by September 30, 2005.

Revised versions of the paper should be ready by October 31, 2005.

Snail mail/disk submissions:

Dr. A.R Fatihi, Guest Editor, SALR.
Professor, Department of Linguistics,
Aligarh Muslim University
Aligarh (UP), INDIA.
Tel: 91-571 -2505259

Prof Omkar N. Koul, Editor, SALR
C-13 Greenview Apartments 33
Sector 9
Rohini
Delhi 110085, INDIA
Tel: 91-11-27556197