ELTWeekly Issue#12, Worldwide ELT events

British Council (Colombia) 12th National ELT Conference 2009, Sede Chapinero, April 23-25

The British Council, in collaboration with several universities in Bogotá, a group of British publishers, the Centro Colombo Americano and ASOCOPI, is organising the NATIONAL ELT CONFERENCE 2009 with the theme: “Perspectives in Bilingualism: Current views and trends”. The topic of the Conference was chosen in response to the suggestions made by participants in 2008.

The Conference will be held in Bogotá, Colombia, from April 23 to 25 2009 at the Universidad de La Salle, Sede Chapinero.

This event seeks to be a forum for researchers, teacher educators, academic coordinators, practitioners and decision makers, to share a critical and constructive assessment of current research and practice on the teaching of English.Registration for the 12th National ELT Conference is now open.

Registration Instructions:

1.    Please deposit the exact amount in DAVIVIENDA (see payment options below).

2.    Once you have made the payment, please go to andcomplete the online registration form with your contact information; please include the electronic transfer number or deposit slip number, checking that all the information has been entered correctly. Please note that your deposit slip number will be required for the registration form.

3.    If you are invited by any of the sponsors of the 12th National ELT Conference, please specify that in the appropriate field.

Dates and Fees:

Individual Registration: $ 227,000 EACH

Groups of 5-9 people: $ 200,000 EACH (23 February – 29 March)

Groups of more than 10 people Or Individual fee for members of ASOCOPI: $ 185,000 EACH (30 March – 13 April)

Late Registration: $ 280,000 EACH

Second Presenter: $ 114,000 EACH

The cost of registration includes the National ELT Conference proceedings on CD.

For further details and pre-registration, please visit: http://www.britishcouncil.org/colombia-eltconference.htm

Preparing Language Teachers for the 21st Century: Sixth International Conference on Language Teacher Education, The George Washington University, May 28 – 30

Designed for practitioners and researchers involved in the preparation and ongoing professional development of language teachers, LTE 2009 will address the education of teachers of all languages, at all instructional and institutional levels, and in many national and international contexts in which this takes place including: English as a Second or Foreign Language (ESL/EFL) instruction; foreign/modern/world language teaching; bilingual education; immersion education; indigenous and minority language education; and the teaching of less commonly taught languages.

Pre-Conference Workshops have been reduced to $50 each (before April 1) and take place on Thursday, May 28, 2009. The fee will go up to $75 for registrations after April 1.

Plenary Speakers:

• Second Language Teacher Education in Times of Change: Jack Richards, The Regional Language Center
• Teacher Cognition and Communicative Language Teaching: Simon Borg, University of Leeds
• The Moral Lives of Teacher Educators: Bill Johnston, Indiana University
• A Sociocultural Perspective on Language Teacher Education: Karen E. Johnson, The Pennsylvania State University

For further details and pre-registration, please visit: http://nclrc.org/lte2009/

‘Tasks: context, purpose and use’ – 3rd Biennial International Conference on Task-Based Language Teaching, Lancaster, September 13-16

Under the auspices of the International TBLT Consortium and the Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University

The first international TBLT conference was hosted in 2005 at the University of Leuven in Belgium and the second international conference on TBLT was hosted in 2007 at the University of Hawaii, Honolulu. As in the two previous conferences, we look forward to bringing together researchers and educators from around the world to share and learn from one another’s innovations and research in task-based language teaching.

The conference will be held in the university’s well-equipped conference suite. The nearby city of Lancaster has a distinguished historic castle and boasts several jewels of Georgian architecture. It is within 30 minutes of the Lake District, beloved of walkers, fell runners, rock climbers, painters, poets and writers. The campus is also close to a spectacular coastline stretching from Glasson Dock, a couple of miles away, through Morecambe Bay to the coast of the Southern Lakes, and also lies within easy reach of the Pennines and the Yorkshire Dales.

Plenary Speakers

Geoff Brindley 

(Macquarie University, Australia)

Zoltán Dörnyei 
(University of Nottingham, UK)

Bernard Mohan 
(University of British Columbia, Canada)

Lourdes Ortega 
(University of Hawaii, USA)

For further details and pre-registration, please visit: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/events/tblt2009/index.htm