ELTWeekly Issue#18, Worldwide ELT events
By Tarun Patel
*** 2009 EUROCALL: New Trends in Computer Assisted Language Learning, Gandia, September 9-12 ***
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.
EUROCALL 2009 will also be hosted by the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, but this time it will take place at the Higher Polytechnic School of Gandia, also known as the UPV Gandia Campus site. The Gandia campus is located in one of the most privileged Valencian regions known as “La Safor” where the Mediterranean Sea and a historical agricultural tradition meet. Well known for its wide golden beaches, Gandia is also historically renowned for its 14th Century Palacio Ducal, house to the Borgia family.
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 keynote speakers for the conference are (alphabetically arranged):
Professor Guy Cook, The Open University
Professor Hossein Farhady, American University of Armenia
Professor Alastair Pennycook, University of Technology Sydney
Professor Barbara Seidlhofer, University of Vienna
Professor Henry Widdowson, University of Vienna
Pre-conference workshop (September 25):
Alternative assessment, by Dr.Christine Coombe, Higher College of Technology, UAE
The deadline for abstract submission is June 14, 2009. Notification of acceptance will be sent by July 10. Early registration deadline is August 5.
For submitting an abstract, click here.
For further details and pre-registration, please visit: http://www.appliedlinguistics.ir/
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*** Language policy and learning: University of Limerick, June 2009 ***
The Irish Association for Applied Linguistics / Cumann na Teangeolaíochta Feidhmí will host this large international conference immediately after a meeting of the AILA Executive Board and International Committee in the university.
The conference is concerned with all aspects of language policy and the learning of languages. It will address the status and form of languages as well as acquisition policies pertaining to their teaching and learning. It will welcome papers, posters and panels on promoting and managing language policy and research on the development, implementation and effects of language policy in all regions of the world. The organisers will particularly welcome studies that contribute to language policy theory, both in regard to language learning and other domains.
The organising committee looks forward to welcoming delegates to the University of Limerick, which is located on extensive scenic parkland spanning the two banks of the River Shannon in western Ireland. The plenary speakers will be:
- Jennifer Jenkins, University of Southampton
- Kendall King, University of Minnesota
- Muiris Ó Laoire, Institute of Technology Tralee
- Mark Sebba, Lancaster University
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The conference will be innovative, reflective, and stimulating based on the theme “New Horizons in Language Education”. It will be jointly organized byTeaching 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/ Psycholinguistics
- Curriculum and Materials Development/ English for Specific Purposes
- Language Testing and Assessment
- CALL/ Multimedia and ICT in Language Classroom
- Language and Literature
- English Translation.
For further details and pre-registration, please visit: http://tellsi7.com/english/
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FAAPI 2009 IN BAHÍA BLANCA, September 24-26
April 28th, 2009
ELTWeekly Issue#17, Worldwide ELT events
By Tarun Patel
***Creating an English Language Teaching Hub, Philippines ESL Journal & Asian EFL Journal, Philippines, August 7-8***
The First TESOL Philippines International EFL ESL Conferencewill be held at the Crown Regency Hotel, Cebu, Philippines, from August 7th-8th 2009.
The aim of this conference is to bring together EFL practitioners across Asia to exchange views on a wide range of issues in EFL ESL practice and research. Through this exchange, it is hoped that participants will gain better insights into the world of EFL ESL and the challenges it faces. TESOL Philippines and Asian EFL Journal are proud to co-host this inaugural special event .
Keynote speakers will include:-
- Professor Rod Ellis (New Zealand)
- Asst Professor Phyllis Chew (Singapore)
- Professor Carlo Magno (Philippines)
- Professor Z.N. Patil (India)
- Professor Rob Dickey (Korea – USA)
Proposals (up to 250 words) for 30 minute presentations should be related to research and practice into EFL ESL teaching and the teaching of ESL EFL in Asian contexts or with Asian students. Papers are invited:-
Suggested topics are but not limited to:-
- Teaching EFL students in an ESL zone
- Cultural impact of teaching EFL students
- Teaching English in the Philippines
- A Global hub for English language teaching
- Teaching teachers to teach EFL students
- Teaching English grammar to Koreans & Japanese
- Setting standards for English language schools in Philippines
Workshops
Abstracts in English should be sent to asianefl@gmail.com byJune 30th, 2009 and should include the following information:
- Author’s full name and title.
- Author’s affiliation and address.
- E-mail contact address.
- Title of the paper
- Abstract (up to 250 words)
Notification of acceptance will be given by July 4th, 2009
A Conference Proceedings edition will be published in 2009 and for this purpose full papers should be submitted by October 2009 to
asianefl@gmail.com
Enquiries concerning the conference should be directed toasianefl@gmail.com
Fees:
- Conference participation:
- Local Speakers fees Peso 2500
- International Speakers fees. U.S. $150
- Attendance 2,000 Pesos (U.S. $42.00)
- Membership in TESOL Philippines (1,000 pesos) (Sign Up at Conference)
***ELT in India Today and Tomorrow, Udaipur, India, November 5-6-7***
The First International EFL ESL Conference will be held at in Udaipur in November 2009.
The aim of this conference is to bring together EFL practitioners from across the Globe to exchange views on a wide range of issues in ELT EFL ESL practice and research. Through this exchange, it is hoped that participants will gain better insights into the world of ELT EFL ESL and the challenges it faces. The Department of English, Janardan Rai Nagar Rajasthan Vidyapeeth University, Udaipur is the primary host. The Rajasthan Association of English Studies, India TESOL and Asian EFL Journal are proud to co-host this inaugural special event .
Keynote speakers will include:-
- Prof. Z.N. Patil
- Professor S. N. Joshi
- Professor R. P. Bhatnagar
- Dr. Paul Robertson
- Prof. Phyllis Chew
- Prof. Rod Ellis
Over 90 other presenters will present papers and workshops
Proposals (up to 350 words) for 30 minute presentations should be related to research and practice into EFL ESL teaching and the teaching of ESL EFL in Asian contexts or with Asian students. Papers are invited:-
Suggested topics are but not limited to:-
- The changing face of ELT in India
- Indian Englishes
- Cultural impact of teaching EFL students
- Teaching English in India
- Teaching teachers to teach EFL students
- Teaching English grammar to other EFL nations
- Workshops
- Poster sessions
Abstracts in English should be sent to asianefl@gmail.com by 31st September 2009 and should include the following information:
- Author’s full name and title.
- Author’s affiliation and address.
- E-mail contact address.
- Title of the paper
- Abstract (up to 350 words)
Notification of acceptance will be given from August 31st onwards until all speakers positions (110) are filled.
A Conference Proceedings edition will be published in early 2010 and for this purpose full papers should be submitted by October 30th 2009 to
asianefl@gmail.com
Enquiries concerning the conference should be directed to Dr. Robertson asianefl@gmail.com
Fees:
- Conference participation:
- Local presenters. 1,000 Indian Rupee
- International Speakers fees. U.S. $150
- Attendance 500 Rupees. Indian
- Attendance non India U.S.$60.00
- Membership in TESOL India (250 Rupees’s)
For further details and pre-registration, please visit: http://www.asian-efl-journal.com/Call-for-Papers-India-2009.php
***11th Latin American Colloquium of English for Specific Purposes, November 9-13***
The first Latin American English for Specific Purposes (ESP) Colloquium, held in Sao Paulo (Brazil) in 1988, aimed at providing a forum for sharing teaching experience and research results in the fields of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) and/or English for Academic Purposes (EAP) at secondary and university levels.
Since then, similar colloquia have taken place in other Latin American countries, such as Chile (Santiago: 1990), Mexico (Mexico DF: 1992, 2004), Brazil again (Natal: 1994), Venezuela (Mérida: 1996), Colombia (Barranquilla: 2000) and Argentina (Catamarca in 1998, Salta en 2003, and Río Cuarto in 2007). It is thus the second time it will be held at the University of the Andes (Mérida, Venezuela).
For the first time, though, this Colloquium is also called “1st Latin American Language for Specific Purposes (LSP) Colloquium” so as to represent and honor other languages taught for specific and/or academic purposes, such as Spanish, French, German, Italian, etc. We therefore encourage teachers/researchers to submit proposals dealing with research conducted not only on English for specific purposes but also on other languages for specific purposes, both in oral and written contexts.
IMPORTANT DATES
- Colloquium Dates: November 9th – 13th, 2009
- Deadline for Submission of Abstracts: June 30th, 2009
- Notification of Acceptance: August 31st, 2009
- Submission for Proceedings: if possible, November 13th, 2009
***2009 ACTFL ANNUAL CONVENTION AND WORLD LANGUAGES EXPO, San Diego, California, November 20-22***
Submission Deadline: January 9th
Theme: Speaking Up for Languages… The Power of Many Voices
The Annual Convention and World Languages Expo of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) will be held Friday, November 20 through Sunday, November 22, 2009 in San Diego, CA with Pre-Convention Workshops scheduled on Thursday, November 19. The ACTFL Convention features over 500 educational sessions and events covering the whole spectrum of the foreign language profession. The entire selection of sessions is designed to provide attendees with an exciting array of sessions and events to further their knowledge and help them be better teachers or administrators. We welcome you to submit a proposal for consideration. When you login, please read carefully the Submission Guidelines before proceeding to complete your online submission.
The convention draws approximately 6,000 attendees and is the only national event bringing together all languages, levels and assignments within the profession. Please note: Presenters whose proposals are selected for presentation MUST be available to present any day during the Convention.
For further details and pre-registration, please visit: http://convention3.allacademic.com
ELTWeekly Issue#16, Worldwide ELT events
By Tarun Patel
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