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November 2013—How are our practices helping<br />
students learn?<br />
Focus on: INSTRUCTION<br />
Possible article topics include (but are not limited to):<br />
• High-leverage practices<br />
• Comprehensible input<br />
• “Flipping” the classroom<br />
• Do effective language teachers still teach grammar and<br />
if so, how?<br />
• Research-informed instruction<br />
• Thematic units<br />
• Project-based learning<br />
• 21 st century skills<br />
Article submissions due: August 1, 2013<br />
January 2014—How do encounters with cultures change<br />
our learners’ views of the world?<br />
Focus on: CULTURAL PROFICIENCY<br />
Possible article topics include (but are not limited to):<br />
• Interculturality<br />
• Study abroad and intercultural adjustment<br />
• Pragmatic competence<br />
• Service learning<br />
• International collaboration<br />
Article submissions due: October 1, 2013<br />
February 2014—What kinds of assessments improve<br />
learning and teaching?<br />
Focus on: ASSESSMENT <strong>AN</strong>D FEEDBACK<br />
Possible article topics include (but are not limited to):<br />
• Measuring what has been learned<br />
• Performance and authentic assessments<br />
• Backward Design<br />
• New Advanced Placement (AP) exams and revised<br />
frameworks<br />
• Modes and cultures<br />
• Linguafolio<br />
• Assessing proficiency<br />
• OPIs/OPIcs/WPT<br />
• Designing effective rubrics and feedback tools<br />
Article submissions due: November 1, 2013<br />
April 2014—How can educators improve their effectiveness?<br />
Focus on: PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT<br />
Possible article topics include (but are not limited to):<br />
• Teacher preparation and sustained improvement<br />
• Teacher effectiveness<br />
• Professional learning communities/communities<br />
of practice<br />
• Collaboration<br />
• Mentoring<br />
• Continual improvement as an educator<br />
Article submissions due: January 1, 2014<br />
We encourage you to begin submitting original, previously unpublished articles for these<br />
special theme issues directly on the ACTFL website at www.actfl.org/publications/all/thelanguage-educator.<br />
There will be a link there allowing you to upload your article directly to<br />
the site for a specific issue, as well as more information about formatting and content.<br />
NOTE: Articles for these theme issues, while peer-reviewed, should still follow The<br />
Language Educator Author Guidelines (available online) and should be written in the style<br />
of a magazine feature article, with direct quotes from multiple primary sources and intended<br />
to appeal to educators of all languages at all levels. They should not be narrowly focused<br />
research articles or dissertations with long lists of references, literature reviews, etc.<br />
The Language Educator n February 2013 63
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