Call for Submissions for ESL Book on Glb Topics

By Susan Carty

 Christopher Renner (whose glb ESL materials are included in our SIG’s web site) has asked us to circulate this call for submissions for a TESOL book on the topic of glbt issues in the ESL/EFL classroom.

The objectives of the book are to provide:

1) US and Western European teachers of English as a Second/Foreign Language a cultural background concerning the topic of homosexuality in Non-Western cultures.

2) ESL/EFL instructors with peda-gogical examples of addressing the topic of sexual identity within the context of the classroom in a Western cultural setting and awareness of cultural limits to such discussions in Non-Western cultures.

3) an opportunity to address the area of English for Sex Workers; including the issue of child prostitution, cultural differences in age of consent, and forced labor of children in the ever expanding sex market.

The book will be in three parts:

I. Understanding cultural differences. Contributions are sought which give an overview of how homosexuality is understood “officially”, in the sense of laws and regulations, and “socially/culturally”, what actually occurs within the society, particularly in Latin America, Africa, Asia and the Far East.

II. Pedagogical concerns/methods. Contributors are sought who have ad-dressed the issue in both US/Western and Non-Western settings. Contributions should be methodological in approach and non-academic in presentation. Materials, pedagogical essays and reports can address both adult educational set-tings as well as elementary/junior high/high school ESL settings.

III. English for Sex Workers. The development of a “sex trade” based primarily on Western tourism to under-developed countries has created concerns about human rights abuses, AIDS/STD education, negotiation skills, forced child prostitution and labor in the sex trade. Contributions to the section are sought which address these concerns.

This book proposal is targeted for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), Inc. and it’s publication division.

Following TESOL guidelines, a pub-lication proposal must include a complete table of contents with authors listed, and at least one completed chapter.

Deadline #1. by May 15. Hard copy and floppies, formatted in Word 5.1 for Macintosh, or Word for DOS, of submission proposals -- completed, in progress, or abstracts, RECEIVED, not mailed!  May-June, selection of proposals, presentation of publication proposal to TESOL. Two months after TESOL approval, all final copies must be received with hard copy graphics.