Newcastle University

At the recent highly successful BAAL (British Association of Applied Linguistics) conference held here at Newcastle University, and jointly organised by SECLS and CRILLS, a new journal was launched. The journal, 'Classroom Discourse', will be published by Routledge and edited by Steve Walsh. The first issue will be May 2010 and it will appear twice a year in the first instance. The journal aims to bring together research from language and education disciplines which focus on discourse and interaction in settings where activity is deliberately organised to promote learning. While most papers focus on the discourse of classrooms, others report research in more informal, naturalistic settings, such as online tutorials, peer-peer interactions of work-in-progress, and dialogues between ‘trainer and trainee’ in a workplace context.

For further information about the journal, please contact Steve Walsh at steve.walsh@ncl.ac.uk.