Scripta Manent

I got a message today from the National University Library. Scripta Manent, the new peer-reviewed journal of the Slovene Association of LSP Teachers, has received its ISSN assignment! So what, you might say.
I’m editor of this journal and I spent months with the editorial board devising the journal’s aims and policies. And we are reasonably satisfied with the results so far. Time has now come to make the next step and go public.
The name of the journal comes from the Latin saying “Verba volant, scripta manent” (spoken words fly away, written words remain). On the one hand, we’d like to encourage LSP teachers to record and share their observations and reflections on the practical aspects of LSP teaching and this way contribute to the development of the discipline as well as help teachers gain respect for what they’re doing. On the other, we’d like to open up a much needed dialogue between LSP teachers.
I’m not sure we’ll manage to reach our aims. That depends now on LSP teachers in Slovenia and elsewhere.
Well, whatever the outcome, I’ll know that I’ve done my best to make an idea that I felt passionate about come true. And that counts too.