Draft agenda

ACLA Annual General Meeting / Assemblée générale annuelle de l’ACLA
Draft agenda / Ordre du jour provisoire
Tuesday May 31 / mardi 31 mai 2016, 9:00—10 :30
A light breakfast is offered / Un petit déjeuner léger est offert
Location: University of Calgary, room Science B-103
1. Welcome and approval of the agenda / Mot de bienvenue et adoption de l’ordre du jour
2. Approval of the minutes and business arising / Adoption du procès-verbal et affaires qui
en découlent (Appendix A)
3. President’s report / Rapport de la présidente (Appendix B) and report of the nominating
committee (Appendix C)
4. Treasurer’s report and financial statements / Rapport de la trésorière et états financiers
(Appendix D)
5. Communications Officer’s report / Rapport de l’Agente de communication (Appendix E)
6. Journal editors’ report (CJAL) / Rapport des rédacteurs de la revue RCLA (Appendix F)
7. Notice of motion: ACLA/CAAL’s response to the 2015 Calls for Action of Canada’s Truth
and Reconciliation Commission (see following page) / Avis de motion, réponse
d’ACLA/CAAL aux Appels à l’action 2015 de la Commission de la vérité et de la
reconciliation du Canada (voir page suivante)
 Congress 2017 will be at Ryerson University, Toronto, May 29-30-31 (dates to be
confirmed); check the call for papers on our website at http://www.aclacaal.org/ or go
directly to http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/acla2017 after July 1, 2016. Abstract
submission will be open from July 15 — November 15, 2016. /
 Congrès 2017 aura lieu à l’Université Ryerson, Toronto, 29-30-31 mai (dates à
confirmer); voir l’appel à communications sur notre site at http://www.aclacaal.org/, ou
aller directement à http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/acla2017 après le 1 juillet 2016. La
soumission des résumés sera ouverte du 15 juillet au 15 novembre 2016.
 2018: University of / Université de Regina
Notice of Motion, Annual General Meeting 2016
For voting by the membership at the 2016 Annual General Meeting: A motion to support the
following statement, drafted by incoming ACLA president Andrea Sterzuk with the support of the
Executive Committee. If approved by the membership, this statement will be incorporated into the
association website, through an addition to our stated Objectives (ACLA constitution, article 2)
and/or an additional page on the association website, and/or some other form to be approved at
the Annual General Meeting.
Statement in response to TRC Calls to Action:
The Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics recognizes the responsibility of our association to
respond to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Calls to Action. We do so by acknowledging
the words of the Honorable Justice Murray Sinclair, Truth and Reconciliation Commissioner, who
tells us, “Whatever it is that you do, make sure you never stop doing it. This is life’s work.”
Accordingly, we commit our efforts to work towards reconciliation by supporting:
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The development of Indigenous language teachers
Indigenous language degree and diploma programs at college and university level
The work of researchers, educators, and students in the maintenance, revitalization, and
strengthening of Indigenous languages
The development of language curricula with Aboriginal content and perspectives
The integration of education for reconciliation into teacher education programs (building
intercultural understanding, empathy, and respect; supporting language teaching that takes
into account residential schools and Aboriginal history).
Some of the ways we are currently planning to do this include:
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Keynote speakers at future conferences
2016 joint panel session with Canadian Linguistics Association and SSHRC on the languagerelated Truth and Reconciliation Commission Calls to Action (see next page)
Papers and panel on the topic of Indigenous languages at annual conferences
Funding initiatives specifically targeting professional activities to promote awarenessraising among our members
Avis de motion, assemblée générale annuelle
Soumise au vote auprès des membres de l’ACLA à l’assemblée générale annuelle de 2016 : Une
motion pour soutenir l’énoncé suivant, ébauché par la présidente entrante, Andrea Sterzuk, avec le
soutien du conseil d’administration. Si la motion est approuvée par nos membres, l’énoncé suivant
sera inséré sur le site web de l’association par le biais d’un ajout à nos objectifs établis (Constitution
de l’ACLA, article 2) et/ou une page additionnelle sur le site web de l’association, et/ou toutes
autres formes qui seront approuvées à l’assemblée générale annuelle.
Énoncé en réponse aux appels à l’action de la CVR :
L’Association canadienne de la linguistique appliquée reconnait sa responsabilité en tant
qu’association de répondre aux appels à l’action de la Commission de la vérité et de la
réconciliation. Nous le faisons en reconnaissant les mots de l’honorable juge Murray Sinclair, le
commissaire de la vérité et de la réconciliation, qui a affirmé : « Qu’importe ce que vous faites,
assurez-vous de ne pas cesser de le faire. Ceci est un travail de longue haleine. »
Par conséquent, nous engageons nos efforts envers la réconciliation en soutenant :
• La formation d’enseignantes et enseignants de langue indigène
• Un baccalauréat en langue indigène et des programmes avec diplômes aux niveaux collégial
et universitaire
• Le travail des chercheurs, éducateurs et étudiants dans le maintien, la revitalisation et le
renforcement des langues indigènes
• Le développement de programmes d’études de langue avec un contenu et des perspectives
aborigènes
• L’intégration de l’éducation pour la réconciliation dans les programmes de formation des
maitres (développer la compréhension interculturelle, l’empathie et le respect; soutenir
l’enseignement des langues qui tient compte des pensionnats et de l’histoire aborigène).
Des façons que nous planifions en ce moment d’inclure :
• Conférencières ou conférenciers principaux à des congrès futurs
• Table ronde conjointe 2016 avec l’Association canadienne de linguistique et le CRSH sur les
appels à l’action liés à la langue de la Commission de la vérité et de la réconciliation
• Communications et tables rondes au sujet des langues indigènes aux congrès annuels
• Des initiatives de financement qui ciblent spécifiquement les activités professionnelles qui
promeuvent la conscientisation de nos membres
Appendix A : ACLA/CAAL AGM 2015 draft minutes
Royal York Hotel, Toronto, Wednesday March 22nd, 12:35pm, Salon A
Present : Stephanie Arnott, Mehdi Babaei, Suzie Beaulieu, Lace Marie Brogden, Karla Culligan, Joe
Dicks, Farahnaz Faez, Jennifer Foote, Véronique Fortier, Sumanthra Govender, Martin Guardado,
Gladys Jean, Sarita Kennedy, Paula Kristmanson, Sharon Lapkin, Lei Lei, Callie Mady, Sara Marsh,
Nicole Marx, Janine Metallic, Murray Munro, Marie Nader, Bonny Norton, Leila Ranta, Sylvie Roy,
Mela Sarkar, Matt Schulze, Daphnée Simard, Andrea Sterzuk, Rika Tsushima, Meike Wernicke, Yue
Zhao
1. Welcome and approval of the agenda
• Mela introduced the executive
• Mela asked for a motion to approve the agenda
MOVED: Daphnée Simard
SECONDED: Lace Brogden
Unanimously passed.
2. Approval of the minutes and business arising
• Mela invited members to read and consider approving the minutes from the 2014
AGM.
MOVED: Leila Ranta
SECONDED: Matt Schultz
Unanimously passed.
3. Announcement: Fonds de bourse Danielle Guénette Scholarship Fund
• Sara Kennedy (Danielle Guénette Scholarship Fund)
• Sara gave a very moving presentation describing Danielle and the scholarship that has
been created in her memory (hosted at UQAM) to support students who have
completed their 3rd year and entering into their 4th year of B.Ed. studies.
• The link to the fund will appear on the ACLA website (i.e., information about the
scholarship, how to donate etc.)
4. Reports and approval: President/Vice-president/Communications Officer
• Mela presented her report
• Andrea presented her report
• Martin presented his report
-Martin added that the high number of Twitter followers is indicative of an
opportunity for dissemination of what the association is up to.
-Martin thanked the executive for their mentorship and patience over the course of
his term, and the membership and community at large for their support. He wishes
the new Communications Officer his best.
Mela prompted the membership to consider approving the three reports.
MOVED: Sharon Lapkin
SECONDED: Leila Ranta
Unanimously passed.
5. Secretary-Treasurer’s report and approval of financial statement
• Stephanie presented her report
• Mela prompted the membership to consider approving the financial statement
MOVED: Sharon Lapkin
SECONDED: Callie Mady
Unanimously passed.
6. Journal editors' report
• Paula and Joe presented their report
• They announced that CJAL successfully received funding from the SSHRC Aid to
Scholarly Journal Grant and presented details of the evaluation of their successful
application (see p.11 for details).
• Membership acknowledged hard work of Karla Culligan (Associate/Managing Editor)
• Leila Ranta asked whether the CJAL editors would prefer people to be registered
users as opposed to accessing the CJAL website? Would this increase your numbers?
• The editors responded affirmatively, to which Sarita Kennedy added that if you assign
a CJAL article in your classes, and direct them to the website to register to get it, that
is also a good way to increase our registration numbers (this is good for next SSHRC
grant)
• Daphnée Simard congratulated the executive for their hard work to maintain the
journal, as funding was a challenge just a few years ago.
MOVED: Gladys Jean
SECONDED: Daphnée Simard
7. Report of the Nominating Committee
• Mela a présenté le rapport du comité des nominations
• Mela moved to approve the nomination of Meike Wernicke
• Meike accepted (“I do” )
8. Any other business
• Stephanie presented the forthcoming change to the constitution that will be proposed
to the membership for the term of the Secretary-Treasurer to begin on January 1st
2015 as opposed to immediately following the AGM. This is being proposed in order to
ease the transition (i.e., to happen at the beginning of the financial year instead of at
the end). She added that the membership should expect an announcement and e-ballot
on this issue to be sent out in the coming months.
• Mela announced that next year’s ACLA conference will be held at the University of
Calgary with Congress. Sylvie Roy offered to help out if we need assistance (as a local
coordinator, for example). Her local chairship is now unofficially confirmed. Sylvie and
Mela will be in touch about this in the coming months.
• Move to adjourn: MOVED - Leila Ranta
Meeting Adjourned 
Appendix B: President's report/Rapport de la présidente
Between the 2015 and 2016 Annual General Meetings, the executive held six meetings by Skype, as
follows: June 18, September 11 and November 30, 2015; February 26, March 31 and April 29, 2016.
The final meeting of the current executive was held in person just before the start of this year’s
conference as usual on May 29, 2016.
Unusually for this association, this year's reports are on a 14-month reporting timeline because our
annual conference LAST year in 2015 was in late March, therefore our Annual General Meeting, was
two months earlier than usual.
Apart from our ongoing duties keeping track of membership, organizing the annual conference and
maintaining our membership in AILA (Association international de linguistique appliquée), notable
events of the past 14 months for our association were as follows.
1) The March 2015 joint conference with AAAL went well, but there are lessons learned that
future executives should take note of for next time we hold a joint conference (which will
presumably be the next time AAAL decides to have their annual conference in Canada).
These lessons are mostly about being proactive and ensuring a strong ACLA presence and
decision-making power at all planning stages (perhaps through a quota system for
abstracts and reviewers, which would have to be negotiated with the AAAL executive the
minute we learn about a joint conference possibility) (i) More Canadian content
throughout; (ii) More Canadian abstract reviewers, including for English abstracts (for
French abstracts it’s a given that all reviewers are Canadian); (iii) More up front
recognition of official bilingualism in Canada, so that translation, program information,
public recognition etc., can be planned in French as well as English without any friction
occurring
2) A new system for membership, now through the Federation for the Humanities and Social
Sciences, so far working smoothly; we have made a new retiree rate ($75 annually) part
of our membership process
3) The passing of Larry Vandergrift on 1 Nov 2015 and our executive decision to hold a
memorial symposium in his honour at ACLA 2017 in Toronto (see CfP in program)
4) Charlotte Della Jane’s arrival (14 December 2015) and Stephanie Arnott’s heroic
continued service as Secretary-Treasurer regardless, though on maternity leave! (with
the help of her assistant Amanda Cloutier, to whom, many thanks)
5) The TRC (Truth and Reconciliation Commission) Calls to Action were made public in June
2015; the ACLA executive decided that our association would do something concrete in
response. We have drafted a notice of motion about adding a specific ACLA “Response to
the TRC Calls to Action” to the ACLA website about this, on the homepage and/or as a
separate tab on the About page. This motion will be voted on at the 2016 AGM. We also
agreed to co-host a joint event with CLA at Congress, see below.
For this year’s ACLA/CAAL 2016 conference, held as usual at Congress (the “Congress of the
Humanities and Social Sciences”), special thanks go to the following people.
a) Our sponsors — contributions from 16 sources including two anonymous donors, for
a total of $5450 in donations toward our conference expenses (all non-anonymous
sources are clearly represented in the conference program)
b) Sylvie Roy, our tireless and resourceful University of Calgary-based Local Chair, who
with her team of volunteers worked very hard to make sure this year’s conference
would be a success
c) Carrie Dyck of Memorial University for spearheading the initiative that led to the
organizing of our special Monday evening joint event, “Indigenous languages and
reconciliation” hosted by CLA, SSHRC and ACLA on the language-related TRC Calls to
Action, with over a dozen Indigenous and non-Indigenous language activists and
scholars involved in submitting position statements, as well as representation from
SSHRC. Andrea Sterzuk, ACLA vice-president, was an abstract reviewer for this event.
d) Barbara Schmenk of the University of Waterloo for proposing David Block of the
University of Lleida, Spain, as a joint keynote with CAUTG, the Canadian Association of
University Teachers of German.
e) Beverly Baker of the Canadian Association of Language Assessment (CALA) for
proposing a collaboration with CALA that led to the organizing of a special invited
symposium. CALA will have their AGM after their symposium in space provided by
ACLA.
We encourage our members who are also members of other associations to propose other
collaborative ventures along these lines in future!
Further thanks go to the members of our hard-working executive:
Andrea Sterzuk, as vice-president, handled our abstract review process from start to finish
and bore the brunt of the work necessary to put together this year’s conference program, for which
we received 148 submissions (two symposia and 146 papers). Andrea wrote the call for papers; set
up the review website; solicited and secured reviewers; communicated with members about
abstract submissions; assigned proposals to reviewers; communicated with reviewers;
communicated decisions to members; and created the conference schedule. She also liaised with
other organizations (CLA in particular) and the Calgary conference chair. For the TRC session
jointly organized with CLA, she served as a reviewer for the submitted papers. Our final schedule
has 80 papers and three symposia in addition to our three keynotes and the TRC joint session.
Stephanie Arnott, as Secretary-Treasurer, handled all details related to membership and financing.
This was particularly complicated this year because of the change in our system for handling
memberships, now done through the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Meike Wernicke, our new Communications Officer (since March 2015), put in many hours of work
maintaining our mailing list, managing our website and tweeting. Advances in the technology of
social media have meant that the responsibilities associated with this position can change rapidly
and unpredictably. We are very grateful that Meike has been so good at keeping up with them.
Thanks go again to Joe Dicks and Paula Kristmanson and their team at UNB for their work on our
Journal, the Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics.
Sarita (Sara) Kennedy, our Member-at-Large, once again took on the other uncategorizable but
essential tasks that fall to the lot of a Member-at-Large.
I suggest that in future, ACLA presidents consider moving to a paperless system, as much as
possible, for the Agenda and Annual Reports that have in the past yielded such a weight of paper at
our Annual General Meetings!
Mela Sarkar
President, ACLA/CAAL
29 May 2016
Appendix C : Rapport du Comité de nominations
ACLA
Rapport du comité
le 13 mai 2016
Membres du comité : Callie Mady (Chair), Danièle Moore, Miles Turnbull
Un message a été envoyé aux membres le 11 mars 2016 afin de partager le nom d’un
candidat pour le poste de vice-président : Francis Bangou, et d’offrir l’occasion aux membres des
nominations de la part des membres pour ce poste.
Il n’y avait pas d’autres nominations. Francis Bangou de l’Université d’Ottawa a été invité à
remplir le poste de vice président qu’il a accepté.
Si les candidatures proposées par le comité des candidatures sont approuvées, les membres du
Bureau de direction de l’ACLA en 2016-2017 seront :
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Andrea Sterzuk, présidente
Francis Bangou, vice-président
Mela Sarkar, présidente sortante
Stéphanie Arnott, secrétaire-trésorière
Meike Wernicke, agent de communication
Sara Kennedy, membre associée
Joe Dicks and Paula Kristmanson, rédacteurs de la RCLA
Le comité présentera donc Francis Bangou pour le poste de vice-président de l’ACLA à l’AGA
en mai 2016.
Bien cordialement,
Callie Mady
Présidente du comité de nomination de l’ACLA
Appendix D: Treasurer’s report and financial statements
CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS: STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS
For the year ended December 31, 2015
Revenues
Grants
Sponsorship
Other
Expenses
Travel and meetings
Professional fees
Dues
Website
Administration and
Sundry
Excess (Deficiency)
of revenues over
expenses
MEMBER
DUES
JOURNAL
ROYALTIES
TRAVEL
GRANTS
SYMPOSIUM
FEES
TOTAL
2015
$
$
$
$
$
--8,460
--134
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--26,421
TOTAL
2014
-- $
--6,300
35,015
21,466
8,460
134
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26,421
35,015
27,766
4,615
2,529
2,475
280
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4,615
2,529
2,475
280
10,625
2,147
3,505
1,278
540
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540
683
10,439
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10,439
18,238
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$26,421
$(1,979)
$
134
$
$24,576 $ 9,528
Appendix E: Communication officer’s report/Rapport de l’agente de communications
1. ACLA Website
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The ACLA Website is currently focused on Congress.
This year has seen new content for the 2016 conference, job postings, new membership
procedures. To be added shortly: proposed statement in response to the TRC calls for action.
Outstanding content: AGM minutes for 2014 and 2015.
The conference page and the journal content ont he ACLA Website are the most visited
Between May 15th of 2015 and 2016 there have been a total of 25,141 page views. Page
views are the total number of pages viewed. Repeated views of a single page are counted.
The total number of sessions is 10,991. A session is the period time a user is actively engaged
with your website. See breakdown by country – the remaining 20.78% includes various
countries with 1% or less representation on the website.
Peak times for traffic to the website are in April/May during lead-up to the annual conference,
and in November around proposal submission.
Google Analytics of Average ACLA Site Stats
Period
15 May 2015 –
15 May 2016
Page views
25,141
Sessions
10,991
CDN: 41.97%
US: 14,98%
(not set): 8.02%
China: 3.83%
UK: 2.15%
Brazil: 2.11%
Japan: 2.11%
France: 1.65%
Germany: 1.25%
Russia: 1.15%
Visitors
25,141
new: 24.2%
returning: 75.8%
2. Mailing Lists
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Our general mailing list has remained stable in the past year and currently contains 775 email
addresses.
The ACLA member list currently contains 170 addresses. It is being updated based on reports
from the Federation Accounts website. The Secretary and Communications Officer have direct
access to the accounts now and are supported by the Federation in all membership matters.
3. Social Media
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The Twitter account, created in June 2012, had 772 followers in March 19, 2015. Since then it
has surpassed the 1000 followers mark and as of May 27, 2016 has 1289 followers.
Submissions and retweets from the Board and from the membership are welcome. This will
help continue to expand the ACLA networks, relationships, and its overall online presence,
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with the potential to increase its membership base. Periodically new followers are reviewed
for potential following. At this point we follow organizations and individuals known to ACLA
members or publically known.
Submitted by Meike Wernicke,
ACLA Communications Officer,
North Vancouver,
May 29, 2016
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Appendix F: Journal editors’ report (CJAL)/Rapport des rédacteurs de la revue RCLA
1. Issue 18, 1 (2015) and Issue 18, 2 (2015)
The editorial team completed two issues in 2015: 18, 1 (2015) and 18, 2 (2015). A total of 12
articles (four in French; eight in English) and one book review have been published. In Issue 18, 1
(2015) there were six articles (two in French; four in English) and in issue 18, 2 (2015) there were
six articles (two in French; four in English). There was one book review in issue 18, 1 (2015). One of
the articles in issue 18, 2 (2015) was based on the 2013 ACLA keynote address by Sylvie Roy.
The following table summarizes the publication statistics in 2015 (with comparisons to 2014).
YEAR
2015
2014
Issue number
18, 1 (2015)
18, 2 (2015)
(Edited by Joseph Dicks
and Paula Kristmanson)
17, 1 (2014)
17, 2 (2014)
(Edited by Joseph
Dicks and Paula
Kristmanson)
Number of submissions
61
69
Number of submissions
declined in house
20 (32.8%)
30 (43.5%)
Number of articles
published (breakdown in
French and English)
12 (English = 8; French =
4)
12 (English = 7; French
= 5)
Acceptance rate*
15%
24.6%
Number of submissions sent 41 (67.2%)
for review
Number of book reviews
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39 (56.5%)
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* Explanatory note: The acceptance rate is based on the number of articles
submitted and accepted for publication for that calendar year (according to OJS
stats). On average, based on typical numbers of submissions (approx. 60) and
typical numbers of publications (approx. 12), our acceptance rate is
approximately 20%.
The total number of submissions in 2015 decreased slightly from 2014. However, more
submissions were sent out for peer review in 2015 (67.2%, up from 56.5% in 2014). Of the
submissions screened by the editorial team and/or advisory board members, 32.8% were deemed
not suitable for review. Many of these were out of the scope of the journal or did not correspond to
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the journal’s guidelines with respect to length. Others were simply not of a sufficient quality to
merit full review. We were pleased to be able to publish four articles in French. This represents one
third of articles published in 2015. We also published one book review in the 18, 1 (2015) issue.
Regarding country of origin of published manuscripts in 2015, there were 15 authors affiliated with
11 different Canadian institutions, nine authors from outside Canada (one from Turkey, three from
USA, one from France, one from Qatar, one from Portugal, one from Taiwan, and one from Japan),
and one independent researcher. This compares to 22 authors affiliated with 10 different Canadian
institutions and six authors from outside Canada (three from USA, one from Japan, one from the
United Kingdom, and one from Saudi Arabia) in 2014.
2. Journal Production
• Layout and copyediting. We would like to thank our Editorial Team: Leif French, Book
Review Editor; Josée Le Bouthillier, French Linguistic Editor; and in particular, our PhD
student and Associate/Managing Editor, Karla Culligan. In 2015, Karla did all layout and
PDF creation as well as all copyediting in English.
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Online publishing. All manuscripts are housed at the UNB OJS site at www.cjal-rcla.ca.
Journal visibility/impact. We continue to be indexed in ERIC; EBSCO; ProQuest; Repère;
Cabell’s; Linguistics Abstracts; Linguistics, Language and Behavior Abstracts; MLA
Bibliography; Social Planning Policy Development Abstracts; Sociological Abstracts; Viniti
(All Russian Institute of Scientific and Technical Information); Directory of Online Journals
(DOAJ); OpenJgate. CJAL is a member of CALJ (Canadian Association of Learned Journals).
There is no cost associated with these affiliations with the exception of CALJ which costs
$145 a year.
Registered users and Website usage report. At the time of this report there were 1168
registered users on CJAL website (there were 1044 last year at this time). According to
Google Analytics, from January 1 to December 31, 2015, there were 6,726 users of the CJAL
website and 28,395 page views.
3. Journal finances
We are pleased that the CJAL is able to operate smoothly from a financial perspective due to the 3year SSHRC Aid to Scholarly Journals funding grant for February 2015-February 2018.
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The SSHRC is valued at $16,750 per year for a total of $50,250.
o Most of this is used as salary for the part-time Associate/Managing Editor.
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A small amount is also allocated for French linguistic editing.
A small amount is also used to pay for membership to CALJ and professional
meetings related to the journal.
A financial update was submitted to the ACLA executive at the executive meeting on May 29,
2016 and a full financial statement was provided to SSHRC on April 29, 2016.
4. Notes:
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In addition to regular on-going individual work on the journal, the editorial team at UNB
meets once a week to work on journal-related business. We want to again thank our
Associate/Managing Editor, Karla Culligan, who in addition to the detailed and thorough
work with manuscripts, participates in these weekly meetings, handles the day to day
communication with authors and potential authors in a most efficient and professional
manner, and so carefully reminds the editors of their ‘CJAL homework’.
We would like to thank our Editorial Advisory Board for their input and advice (see list of
members attached). We also greatly appreciate the support of the ACLA Executive.
The editorial team continues to work hard to attract new reviewers and to seek out
reviewers in particular discipline areas. We continue to add high profile and international
reviewers to our database. When appropriate, graduate students are also invited to review
manuscripts (SSHRC student training).
Issue 19, 1 (2016) is underway. There are currently three articles published with two more
currently in copyediting.
The CJAL Special Issue for 2015, “The Culture of Study Abroad” with guest editor Dr. John
Plews of Saint Mary’s University, is reaching completion. There are nine potential articles
for publication and the first two are currently in copyediting. The Call for Papers for our
next Special Issue closed on May 15, 2016. The guest editors of this issue are Dr. Suzie
Beaulieu and Dr. Leif French. The theme of this Special Issue is “Current Perspectives on
Oral Communicative Competence of French Second Language Speakers.”
Editorial Team:
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Joseph Dicks and Paula Lee Kristmanson (Co-editors)
Karla Culligan (Associate/Managing Editor)
Josée Le Bouthillier (French Linguistic Editor)
Leif French (Book Review Editor)
Editorial Advisory Board:
• Katy Arnett (St. Mary’s College of
Maryland, USA)
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Monique Bournot-Trites (University
of British Columbia)
Gisèle Chevalier (Université de
Moncton)
Marianne Cormier (Université de
Moncton)
Bill Dunn (University of Alberta)
Françoise Gadet (Université de Paris
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Martin Guardado (University of
Alberta)
Diane Huot (Université Laval)
Sara Kennedy (Concordia)
Callie Mady (Nipissing University)
Leila Ranta (University of Alberta)
Mela Sarkar (McGill University)
Shelley Taylor (University of Western
Ontario)
Miles Turnbull (Bishop’s University)
Submitted by Joseph Dicks and Paula Kristmanson, May 29, 2016.
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