ELTWeekly Issue#15, Worldwide ELT events

The 2009 Asia TEFL International Conference, Thailand, August 7-9

The Asia TEFL International Conference Committee is now accepting presentation proposals for its7th conference to be held in Bangkok, Thailand. The official language for the conference, including presentations and submissions, is English. Under the Conference theme of “Collaboration and Creativity in English Language Teaching and Learning in Asia,” proposals are being accepted in the following content areas:

Subtopics (Content Areas)

The Conference Organizing Committee invites abstracts and presentation proposals on the following subtopics (content areas):

• Approaches and Methodologies
• Curriculum / Materials
• Distance Education
• Education / Language Policy
• International / Intercultural Communication
• Language Acquisition
• Material Writing and Design
• Multiple Intelligences and Learning Styles
• Teacher Education
• Teaching Young Learners
• Testing, Assessment, and Evaluation
• The Use of IT in Language Teaching
• Using Local Literatures in English or translations for teaching English

Types of Presentations

Presentations may be made in one of four forms:

• Colloquium (60 min.): Panelists (and audience) participate in the discussion.
• Workshop (60.): Audience actively participates in the presentation.
• Demonstration (30 min.): Presenter shows a technique to the audience.
• Research Paper Presentation (30 min.): Presenter reports research and results.

Speakers

Invited Speakers: Six to eight internationally renowned scholars will each give a 50-minute plenary presentation as well as a 30-minute concurrent session presentation. The Conference will also feature six or eight well-known speakers from the Asian region. These featured speakers will give 40-minute presentations on topics related to the Conference theme.

Registration Fees

Thailand TESOL members: US $100

Asia TEFL members:      US $100

Non-members:           US $110

For further details and pre-registration, please visit: http://www.asiatefl.org/2009conference/conference2.html

C/ESL 2009, Taiwan, May 16-17

The Language Center of National Central University has held the “Chinese/English as a Second Language Conference on Reading and Writing Instruction” bi-annually since 2003. We are pleased to announce that this, the 4th C/ESL Reading and Writing Conference (or C/ESL 2009), is the first to be an international conference. The invited and keynote speakers will be leading international scholars, and anyone who is interested in Teaching Chinese/English as a Second Language is cordially invited to the meeting.

Keynote Speaker: Carol A. Chapelle

Carol Chapelle is Professor of TESL/Applied Linguistics and Chair of the Cross-disciplinary Linguistics Program at Iowa State University. She has served as President of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Editor of TESOL Quarterly, and Chair of the TOEFL Committee of Examiners. She is current Co-Editor of the Cambridge Applied Linguistics Series of Cambridge University Press. She is widely recognized as the pre-eminent scholar in the field of CALL.

Registration Dates:

from 2009/03/12 to 2009/05/01
*Due to the complicated application procedures to visit Taiwan, attendees from Mainland China, Hong Kong and Macao should complete their registrations before April 15, 2009.

Registration Rates:

• Early Registration (3/12-4/15): Regular NT$1500, Student NT$600
• Registration between 4/16-5/01: Regular NT$2000, Student NT$800

LANGUAGE AND CULTURE: NEW CHALLENGES FOR THE TEACHERS OF EUROPE, Vilnius, Lithuania, October 8-9

THEMES: 

• LANGUAGE TEACHING
• TEACHER TRAINING
• LINGUISTIC STUDIES
• INTERCULTURAL STUDIES
• LANGUAGE PROJECTS

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

• MARIO RINVOLUCRI
  EFL teacher, teacher trainer and writer at PILGRIMS, UK
  mario@pilgrims.co.uk; www.pilgrims.co.uk; www.hltmag.co.uk
• Dr. EMILIJA SAKADOLSKIS
  Vice-president of the Lithuanian Education Council
• Prof. Dr. ANNELIESE FEARNS
  Expert in teaching foreign languages for specific purposes, co-author of „Handbuch des Fachsprachenunterrichts“
  University of Applied Sciences, Konstanz, Germany
• Prof. Dr. THIERRY LEBEAUPIN
  Centre of Applied Linguistics, Besançon