ELTWeekly Issue#25, Worldwide ELT events

THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND LANGUAGE TEACHING (ICLLT-1), Padang, October 16 – 17

As a world-wide language, the great need for the teaching-learning of Ednglish as an L2 and/or an FL has been increasing significantly. However, the teaching-learning process of English as an FL in Indonesia has not been fairly successful yet. Natural, cultural, psychological, theoretical, and practical problems are still in crucial issues which need to be discussed seriously. In order to have significant success in the teaching-learning of English, professionalism in English Language Teaching (ELT) should be stimulated and promoted by means of various ways. Having conference on ELT is one way which can be held to obtain the intended professionalism.

Being inspired by the experiences in organizing and holding national and international seminars so far, the English Department of Faculty of Language Literature and Art, the State University of Padang would like to organize the scientific discussions and workshops into regular conferences which are labeled as Conference on Language and Language Teaching (CLLT). It is planned that CLLT is held annually in the level of national and international one with various focuses. In accordance with the planning, this is the first international level of CLLT, and this year it is focused on the English language teaching. This conference is held with the theme: “Promoting Professionalism in ELT”. Researchers, lecturers, teachers, or students of English are kindly invited to participate in this valuable conference.

Those who are interested in ELT may write paper(s) related to one of the following topics:

(1)   ICT-based ELT

(2)   Media in ELT

(3)   Curriculum and Material Development in ELT

(4)   Evaluation and Assessment in ELT

(5)   School-based Curriculum of ELT

(6)   English for Young Learners

(7)   Researches and Methods in ELT

(8)   English for Specific Purposes (ESP)

(9)   Literature in ELT

For further details and pre-registration, please visit: http://callhavid.wordpress.com/2009/05/31/international-conference-on-language-and-language-teaching/

16th Annual iEARN International Conference, Ifrane, July 19-25

iEARN is a non-profit network that supports over 25,000 teachers and 2 million youth in more than 125 countries to collaboratethrough a global telecommunications network on projects designed to make a difference in the world. Since 1988.

In July 2009, iEARN-Morocco (MEARN) will be hosting the 16th Annual iEARN International Conference and 13th Annual Youth Summit. This is a gathering open to all, which typically brings together teachers and students from over 70 countries. It builds upon previous conferences in Argentina (1994), Australia (1995), Hungary(1996), Spain (1997), USA (1998), Puerto Rico (1999), China (2000), South Africa (2001), Russia (2002), Japan(2003), Slovakia (2004), Senegal (2005), the Netherlands (2006), and Egypt (2007).

Conference Goals

To facilitate communication and develop partnership between educators and youth locally, regionally and globally.
To use communication technology in education to improve health and welfare among communities.
To improve skills for better quality in education.
To establish institutional links among all partners of education.
To strengthen understanding of people for better education .
To support E-learning and professional development.
To promote inter cultural dialogue
To develop and prospect Pedagogical contents in countries around the world
To share models for how educational telecommunications can be used to affect positive social, political and economic change, and address unmet human and environmental needs.
To share successful classroom project examples that make a meaningful difference, and ideas/models of curriculum/classroom learning enhancement.
To demonstrate and provide hands-on experience in leading technology.
To encourage cross-cultural understanding through the use of different languages in project work, making place for voices which are not usually heard, and exploring other ways of breaking down barriers.
To enlarge the iEARN community to expand its global community of educators and youth leaders using telecommunications.
To share innovative educational resources from different centres, countries and organizations.
To identify steps toward enhancing and sustaining on-line project participation.
To create environment for new collaborative project ideas to be developed, and enable participants to return home with specific action steps to create and/or expand educational telecommunications project work.
To build on the highly successful inaugural teachers and students’ previous meetings and conferences in different countries. Open to educators from outside the iEARN Network.
To discuss and demonstrate of the latest developments in educational practice utilising telecommunications and associated technology will be the key focus of the workshop sessions.

For further details and pre-registration, please visit: http://www.iearn2009.ma/spip.php?article214?lang=en

The 2009 Asia TEFLInternational Conference, Bangkok, 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.