IATEFL YL & LT SIG March 2009
This conference is jointly organised by the British Council and IATEFL’s Young Learner & Learning Technologies Special Interest Groups. Sponsored by Cambridge ESOL, it is for all teachers of English and focuses on three of the most important topics in the rapidly changing world of English Teaching.
The conference agenda features over 90 speakers with differing backgrounds and a wide range of geographies. We hope the varied sessions will address some of the global issues in teaching young learners and demonstrate innovations around Assessment and Testing, Learning Technologies and CLIL.
For more information about the conference itself, including registration, go to the YL SIG pages.
For further details and pre-registration, please visit: http://www.countryschool.com/ylsig2/index.php
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New Trends in CALL: Working Together, 9-12 September, Spain
After 13 years EUROCALL returns to Valencia. Some of the more senior members of EUROCALL will recall the 1995 Conference which took place in September that year, hosted by the Department of Modern Languages. Although e-mail was only slowly emerging at the time, EUROCALL ’95 was one of the first conferences in Spain to digitise and publish the abstracts of all the presentations on the web. An emerging world wide web that seemed revolutionary at the time. For anybody who might be nostalgic, the 1995 abstracts can still be accessed athttp://eurocall.webs.upv.es/euro95/home.htm. The proceedings of the ’95 conference are also a valuable witness of what was prominent at the time in relation to CALL and TELL. Looking back we can see that some of the concerns in the mid nineties are still valid today, for example issues such as integrating CALL into the language curriculum, incorporating speech recognition tools into language courseware, parser analysers, interactive learning environments and so forth.
The 2009 EUROCALL conference will focus on New Trends in Computer Assisted Language Learning with a special emphasis on innovative ways of collaborating and working together in the advancement of language learning and teaching. The conference sub-themes are an example of the numerous branches that have grown out of the CALL tree and is an illustration, we think, of the roots that this area has planted in a collective will to actively contribute towards better understanding and improving language learning with the assistance of information and communications technologies. CALL researchers, developers and practitioners are therefore invited to submit proposals relating to any of the following subthemes which, we think, summarise current interests and concerns in CALL:
- Curriculum development for CALL
- Assessment, testing, feedback and guidance in CALL
- Pedagogical change in technology integration
- Catering for Less Widely Used and Taught Languages in CALL
- Research in new language learning environments
- Innovative e-learning solutions for languages
- Building national/international partnerships for networked language learning
- New role of writing as a tool for communication
- New developments in multimedia courseware design
- Networked language learning in adult education
- Learning Management Systems
- Mobile Learning
- Virtual Worlds
- Corpora
- CALL supported Content Integrated Language Learning (CLIL)
- Computer Mediated Communication (CMC)
- Computer Assisted Translation
- Formal and informal language learning
The 2009 EAQUALS AGM and Conference will take place between 23rd and 25th April in Istanbul. The event will be hosted by one of the Turkish Accredited members of EAQUALS, Istanbul Bilgi University’s English Language Programs Department who are actively involved in the planning and preparations as well.
Venue: santralistanbul® Campus, Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey
The theme of the conference: Quality in Language Teacher Training and Development.
The provisional programme for the meeting is as follows:
Thursday 23rd April:
From 9.15: Inspection Subcommittee meeting, and later other committee meetings
11.00 – 17.00: Inspector training and inspector meetings
20.00: Informal dinner
Friday 24th April:
09.15-12.30: Member discussion groups
14.00-16.15: EAQUALS Annual General Meeting
16.30-17.30: Meetings of SIP groups
20.00: Conference dinner
Saturday 25th April:
09.15-17.15: Conference Day – open to non-members
Click here to download the poster of the event
Click here to register on-line for the Inspector training day, AGM and Conference(for EAQUALS member – 23rd – 25th April 2009)
Click here to register on-line for the Public Conference on 25th April 2009
Draft programme of the Public Conference on 25th April 2009
Click here for the Accommodation information and for the booking form of The Peak/Yenisehir Palace hotel.
Additional information
Istanbul is an ancient but up-to-date city. The old versus the new, the traditional versus the modern – these are contrasts a visitor often observes. The city is full of diversity and colourful views. It is also one of the world’s largest cities, and the only metropolis to straddle two continents. It’s location on the slopes around the Bosphorus Straits and the Golden Horn makes it a particularly spectacular place.
Further useful information about the city can be found at:http://www.istanbulcityguide.com/
For further details and pre-registration, please visit: http://www.eaquals.org/news/item.asp?n=2967
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