Editor's Note, August 2007
Elizabeth Haller
PhD Candidate and Instructor, Kent State University
E-mail: editoraee@hotmail.com
A new semester begins, and with it we invite your continued perusal and encourage you to submit articles, poetry, and fiction for consideration in future issues of AEE. Please review our Call for Papers on this site for more details on submission requirements. If you are unsure whether your contribution would be suitable under the terms of our Call for Papers, please send along an inquiry, and I will be happy to respond forthwith. As always, do not forget to check out Grist for the Mill for possible submission ideas.
Columnist Lynne Fukuda returns with the third in a series of articles on her life lessons in travel. The current installment is titled: “Life Lessons in Traveling Part 3: What I Learned in Europe.” If you haven’t already done so, please read the introduction to this series (“Life Lessons in Air-Travel: What I Learned”) in the May 2007 issue of Academic Exchange Extra (AEE) and the second installment in the June/July 2007 issue.
Dan Lukiv starts off AEE’s feature articles with the final installment of his Haiku series in “Chapter Twelve”. Familiarize yourself with this series by referring to the March 2006 issue for both the “Introduction” and the “Forward” to this collection as well as the April 2006 through December 2006 issues for Chapters One through Eight and the March 2007 through June/July 2007 issues for Chapters Nine through Eleven.
With this issue we provide the “Forward” for Dan Lukiv’s children’s novel titled “Quibils and Quirks”. The original text of this work was serialized in The Cariboo Observer during 1997 through 1999. According to Lukiv, this project, consisting of 108 short chapters, is designed for serialization and works perfectly for teachers who like reading to their students daily. As such, we will be running this novel with eleven chapters per issue through the May 2008 issue of AEE. Included with the “Forward” is a listing of some reviews of this novel.
“When Grammar Competence Mirrors Career Opportunities: the Case of Italian Schools” is our next feature, authored by Emanuela Gutkowski. The author states:
Even if many Italian schools think about the teaching of EFL in terms of communicative approach, based more on a procedural than on a declarative knowledge, the author’s personal experience shows how a correct use of metalanguage and grammar rules can be necessary to acquire adequate language competence. Teaching English to students who already have a classical background can be easier, and job opportunities seem to be more relevant for those who have a strong systemic competence in a foreign language.
This article was previously published in the ATEG Journal, vol. 22, no. 3 (2007), and is published here with permission of the ATEG Journal.
The final feature of this issue, “Further Reflections on First-Year Teaching in the College Classroom” is an entry I wrote in a teaching journal kept during the first two years of my teaching experience. I shared this and another entry with an officemate, hoping to allay some of her first-year teaching fears. I am sharing both entries with you. The first appears in the combined June/July 2007 issue of Academic Exchange Extra, and the second appears here.
Stay tuned to the September issue for further selections from Poet’s Corner.
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Kent State University (e-mail: editoraee@hotmail.com)
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