To		L1 Education researchers in South America, & Ana Atorresi.
From		Gert Rijlaarsdam & Mary Kooy, Editors
Date		7/23/08
Ref.		Special issue L1 Educational studies in Language and Literature

Dear all,

We got your names and addresses via Ana Atoressi, who represent with some others South America in the editorial board of L1 Educational Studies in Language and Literature since 2000. This journal tries to bring together research on L1-education throughout the world. Please visit the website, and read our aims and scope, and our decision to publish an open access journal, with free access for all, with articles that have abstracts in many languages. 
This journal is a publication of the IAIMTE, an international association on language and literature education that organizes since 1997 an international conference every two years. Next year the conference will be held in Toronto, Canada. With the help of Ana Atorresi we would like to try to have our 2011 conference in South America.

This letter is to inform you about this journal, and to invite you to propose special issues on topics relevant for South America and/or special issues on the status of L1-education research in your country. We have had a special issue on research in Greece, and now papers for a special issue on Portugal and on Brazil are under review. We would like to continue this series of issues with special issue proposed by you. Please feel free to contact us and propose issues.

We hope to meet you in some international context, maybe in Toronto next year, or have energizing email conversations instead. 

Kind regards,

Gert Rijlaarsdam, for the editorial team of L1

NB this message is sent to
Argentina
Elvira Narvaja de Arnoux: elvira@filo.uba.ar
Guiomar Ciaspuscio: coteca@caicyt.gov.ar and gciapusc@filo.uba.ar
Inés Kuguel: ikuguel@ungs.edu.ar
Mariana Distéfano: marianadis99@yahoo.com
Cecilia Pereira: ceciliape@sinectis.com.ar
Gustavo Bombini: gbombini@mail.retina.ar

Uruguay
Ivanna Centanino: ivannacentanino@gmail.com

Chile
Ricardo Martínez: ricardomartinezg@gmail.com

Colombia
Fabio Jurado: fabiojuradovalencia@cable.net.co
María Elvira Rodríguez: mrodlun@yahoo.com
Raquel Pinilla Vázquez: plengua@udistrital.edu.co

Perú: 
Jéssica Tapia: jessicatap@gmail.com
Raúl Llaque Minguillo: pchuplla@upc.edu.pe 
Eugenio Chang-Rodríguez: acadnorteamerica@aol.com

Venezuela
María Alejandra Romero: aleromerog@cantnv.net
Zulaima Osuna: zulaima.osuna@gmail.com