Thank you for visiting SSLW interactive--an online forum sponsored by the Symposium on Second Language Writing. The purpose of SSLW interactive is to provide a centralized resource portal for second language writing teachers and researchers from around the world. Currently, SSLW interactive provides the following features:

The 2011 Symposium will be held June 9-11, 2011, in Taipei, Taiwan. Taiwan has long been a major site of second language writing research, and in recent years, it has emerged as one of the growth areas where increasing numbers of researchers and teachers from various disciplinary backgrounds--computer assisted language learning, English for Specific Purposes, literacy studies, rhetoric and composition, and TESOL, among others--are drawn to the topic of second language writing.

The editors of this collection (Siskanna Naynaha, Wendy Olson, and Victor Villanueva) invite scholars in composition, rhetoric, applied linguistics, and literacy to submit manuscripts for a collection focused on the ways in which language, literacy, and the teaching of writing are embedded within larger systems of economic and social relations. Following the social turn in composition and rhetoric, much theoretical and pedagogical discussion has centered on the politics of student identity.

For the next issue of SLW News (July-August 2008) we are particularly interested in write-ups from this year's conferences. If you gave a presentation or led a discussion group, please consider turning it into an article for the next issue. And, if you went to a presentation that you think would be of interest to our members, please consider writing up a summary or asking the presenters to do so.

In a special issue of SLW News and On CALL, the Second Language Writing (SLW) and Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) Interest Sections will focus on plagiarism. We are especially interested in articles, reports, book reviews, software reviews, classroom-based research, teaching techniques, and assessment that focus on plagiarism, writing, and computer-assisted instruction in a variety of academic and professional settings.

Deadline: August 31, 2008. Authors retain copyright.

For more information, visit http://sslw.asu.edu/2009/