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Kimberly Vinall and William Heidenfeldt are guest editing a special issue of Language Acquisition/L2 Journal dedicated to symbolic competence. “Initially described in terms of gameplay--as an ability to position oneself to one's benefit in a symbolic power game through the manipulation and interpretation of symbolic systems, practices, and relationships therein (Kramsch, 2006; Kramsch & Whiteside, 2008), symbolic competence has come to include the potentiality of L2 users to ''recognize and transgress the multiple borders of the contact zone, through and between many meaning-making systems, between the self and the other, among various timescales and contexts, and, ultimately, across power structures'' (Vinall, 2010).”

This special issue will include theoretical, empirical, as well as pedagogically focused articles that explore the critical potentials of symbolic competence in relationship to L2 and TESOL/ESL researchers, teachers, and learners. Contexts may range from the scale of a single language classroom--K-12, university, adult education; second language, foreign language, heritage language--to the scale of national or international language learning contexts.

Call Deadline: 30-Apr-2016

View the full call for papers at http://www.linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-1513.html