This is the announcement of the special edition of Academic Exchange Quarterly (ISSN 1096-1453) on Expanding the Language Teaching and Learning Knowledge Base. Feature editor: Anna Franca Plastina, University of Calabria, Italy.
Deadline: January 5, 2012
This issue will examine practical and theoretical approaches to language. Contributions are invited from Educators and researchers from all fields related to language.
Manuscripts may focus on language in a number of ways. These include:
- second language acquisition
- translation
- language for specific purposes (LSP)
- language for science and technology (LST)
- teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL)
- teacher development
- classroom research
- grammar
- applied linguistics
Papers are also welcome on language policy and planning, course and syllabus design, sociolinguistics, rhetoric and composition, semantics, pragmatics and lexical studies. This edition of the journal also hopes to include papers on languages other than English. Language also includes studies focusing on business, interpersonal, organizational and other forms of communication.
Papers may be in the form of research reports, case studies, research in progress, or theoretical papers.

For more detailed information about submitting your manuscripts, please visit
http://rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/rufen1.htm
http://rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/lang33.htm