Conference Proceedings

Integrating Content and Language:
Meeting the challenge of a multilingual higher education
Maastricht, 23-25 October 2003

General information
With the support of the European Union’s Socrates programme, the Conference Organization will be publishing proceedings of the conference in 2004. To facilitate editorial and/or peer reviewing and editing it is essential that contributors adhere to the guidelines presented below. Papers that do not adhere to these guidelines may be returned to you or even excluded from the proceedings. A template document can be downloaded from here (MS-Word).

Submitting your paper:
Deadline for submission: 5 January 2004. Papers that are late risk being excluded.

Format: IBM-PC Windows-compatible word processor files, using Word for Windows. To ensure compatibility Macintosh users are required to save their Word documents with the .doc ending.

Length: Maximum 10 pages of text, 1.5 line spacing.

Filing and sending your paper
File your paper under your family name (or names) only followed by “-v1-icl”. “-v1” stands for version 1 or subsequent, depending on which version you are submitting. For example, “Hawthorne-Grimes-v1-icl”, depending on the number of authors. This enables us to keep track of revised versions.
Send your paper as an e-mail attachment to:
b.wilkinson@languages.unimaas.nl

Manuscript requirements:
Cover page: On the cover page include the title, your name, your affiliation, address, and e-mail contact address. Font: Times Roman 12 point. Title in bold.

First page of the text: Place the title at the top of the page. Left-justified. Title in bold. Do not include your name, affiliation or other identifying marks.

Layout and spacing: Use headings where appropriate. Do not indent the first paragraph, or the first paragraph after a section or subsection heading. Do indent subsequent paragraphs in the sections (one tab).
Use 1_ line spacing. Use double that space between sections and between subsections (i.e. click <ENTER> twice). Use bold only for the title and the main section headings. Use italics for subsection headings. Use italics for emphasizing words in paragraphs.

Title and headings. Only capitalize the first word and proper names. Otherwise use lower case.
Justification: use only left justification. Do not right-justify. Disable the automatic hyphenation.
Number all text main sections sequentially. Do not number the subsections.

Endnotes: use endnotes, numbered sequentially, if necessary. Endnotes should be in Times New Roman 10 point, and single-spaced.
Do not use footnotes.

Tables, diagrams and figures: do not include tables and figures in the text. Include each table or figure on a separate page. Table legends must be placed above the table; diagram or figure legends below the diagram or figure. The maximum number of tables and figures is six. If you feel you must use more, please contact the Conference Organizers first.
In the text include the line: “Insert table 1 about here” (change number or to figure accordingly) at the approximate point where you wish your table or figure to be inserted. Centre this instruction on the page. Leave one extra blank line before and one blank line after the instruction.

Photographs: we cannot guarantee the inclusion of photographs. Please contact the conference organizers if you wish to include photographs. We reserve the right to omit photographs.

Quotes. Use double inverted commas for short quotes. Use single inverted commas for quotes within quotes. Longer quotes (3 lines or more) should be indented one tab, leaving one extra blank line before and one blank line after the longer quote. Give names of authors, date of publication, and page number.

Use italics to highlight key information. Use single inverted commas to highlight a key word within an italicized expression.

Page numbers: Centre page numbers at the bottom of each page, including the cover page.
Do not include any headers or footers.

Citations/References:
Include all the sources cited in your text, and do not include any that you have not cited in the text.
Ensure that your references are in alphabetical order.

Sources must be indicated according to the American Psychology Association (APA) Manual (see 5th edition) (see http://www.apastyle.org/). We reserve the right to deviate from the style guide.

Citations: Sources in the text must be cited by giving the authors’ names and date of publication. In the case of a quote, give the page number as well.
Examples:

Hawthorne and Grimes (2002) claim that foreign-language instruction results in lower student achievement.

Several studies have investigated student achievement in multilingual instruction (Hawthorne & Grimes, 2002; Pimminger, 1998; Wanabe, Tanayaki, & Temishi, 2000).

One study concluded that content learning through the foreign language “led to a 5% improvement in achievement on content tests” (Lefrançois, 2001: 171).

Sources with two authors require mention of both authors each time they are referenced. For sources with three or more authors, give all the authors on first mention, e.g. Joh, Goldstone, El-Almaty, and Henri, 1999. On subsequent mention, give only the first author followed by “et al.”: Joh et al., 1999.

Book references:
Hawthorne, J.P., and Grimes, S.A. (2002). The Foreign Language in Instruction. New York: Prentice Hall.

Journal articles:
Pimminger, G. (1998). Student learning in multilingual environments. Journal of Higher Education Learning, 14, 2: 214-225.
Wanabe, I., Tanayaki, A., and Temishi, S. (2000). The impact of foreign-language instructors on physics achievement. Japanese Journal of Higher Education, 16, 5: 46-71.

Articles or chapters in edited volumes:
Lefrançois, J.-C. (2001). Organizing biomedical instruction in English in a French teaching hospital. In: Palmer, J. and Martin, J.P. (eds.). Novel Approaches to Professional Instruction. Amsterdam: Elsevier, pp. 293-305.

Electronic sources:
Malmsbury, B.A. (2003). A case-study of 24 knowledge engineering students studying in a bilingual environment. Retrieved October 29, 2003, from: http://www.unimaas.nl/know-engin/~malsbury/papers03.htm

Note: If a website address is longer than your line length, insert a soft-return after a forward slash.

For more details, see the guidelines for citing electronic sources: http://www.apastyle.org/elecref.html

Bob Wilkinson
Conference Chair
b.wilkinson@languages.unimaas.nl