National Seminar on “ELT Methods and Materials: How Can We Make Them Interesting?” – University of Hyderabad, March 3
This two-day seminar aims at discussing newer resources and methods for teaching Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing, Vocabulary and Grammar. These methods and materials need to be interesting to the students, original and practical. Textbooks do not find a place here.
The resources can range from using music, newspapers, movies, short literary passages, internet to group discussions among others. The programme will focus on the use and production of language teaching materials for the teaching of English while making them interesting, practical and novel.
The attempt will be to look at new and creative ways of tapping lesser used resources. Selected limited number of outstation participants with outstanding and original papers will be paid T.A. as per rules.
Accommodation for other outstation candidates can be arranged if the need is communicated by 22 February, 2009.
There is no registration fee.
For further details please write: shreedeepaoak@yahoo.com; hymajyothi@yahoo.in; eltcuoh@yahoo.in
Wales IATEFL Conference – Cardiff, March 31
IATEFL holds its International Annual Conference & Exhibition every spring, which is attended by around 1500 ELT professionals from 70+ countries. It involves a 3.5 -4-day programme of over 300 talks, workshops and symposiums and, in addition to giving delegates a chance to meet leading theorists and writers, and exchange ideas with fellow professionals from all sectors of ELT, it enables them to see the latest ELT publications and services in a large resources exhibition involving around 70 ELT-related exhibitors.
For further details and pre-registration please visit: http://www.iatefl.org/content/conferences/2009/index.php
The 7th International TELLSI Conference, Yazd University, Iran, October 20-22
The 7th TELLSI Conference will take place on October 20-22, 2009. The conference will be innovative, reflective, and stimulating based on the theme “New Horizons in Language Education”. It will be jointly organized by Teaching English Language and Literature Society of Iran (TELLSI) and Yazd University and will be hosted by English Department at Yazd University, IRAN. We are looking forward to an interesting program and invite abstracts for papers, posters, as well as workshops and colloquia covering different aspects of Language education and English Literature as outlined below.
Abstracts are invited for talks or posters on the following major (but not limited to) themes of the Conference:
- Language Teaching & Learning/ Second Language Acquisition
- Teacher Education
- Sociolinguistics/ Discourse analysis
- Curriculum and Materials Development/ English for Specific Purposes
- Language Testing and Assessment
- CALL/ Multimedia and ICT in Language Classroom
- Language and Literature
- English Translation
Featured Speakers:
A group of renowned scholars will give a 50-minute plenary presentation as well as a 30-minute concurrent session presentation. They are being contacted and will be introduced soon.
For further details and pre-registration please visit: http://www.tellsi7.com/
The 4th Lancaster University Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics and Language Teaching, Lancaster, UK, July 2009
The Lancaster University Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics and Language Teaching is organized by postgraduate students under the auspices of the Department of Linguistic and English Language, Lancaster University. The postgraduate conference aims to offer the opportunity for postgraduate students from various areas in linguistics and language teaching/assessment to come together to present papers related to their research and to exchange ideas.
Date and Venue
The conference will be held at the George Fox Building, Lancaster University, on Thursday, 02 July 2009.
Important Dates
Abstract submission deadline: 15 March 2009
Notification of acceptance: 20 April 2009
Regular registration deadline: 22 May 2009
Late registration deadline: 07 June 2009
Conference date: 02 July 2009
For further details and pre-registration please visit: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/events/laelpgconference/