*** 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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