ELTWeekly Vol. 4 Issue#40 | October 1, 2012 | ISSN 0975-3036
The International Academic Forum in conjunction with its global partners has announced the Third Annual Asian Conference on Language Learning, to be held from April 25-28 2013 in Osaka, Japan.
Message from the ACLL 2013 team
Dear Colleagues,
Over the past years, education has seen many shifts in the areas of teaching methodology, assessment, and use of technology; to mention a few. Learner centered classrooms, collaboration, and transformative education focus on process in addition to content. These are just a few of the changes that have occurred. Education reform is everywhere as teachers and administrators attempt to create schools and classes for the 21st century. To do our jobs properly, we need to be aware of these changes. And as language educators we need to show how language learning and teaching can help achieve the goals of the future. We invite language educators, administrators, policy makers, and others to join us at ACLL 2013 as we share what we are doing in our classrooms and at our schools to respond to the shifts happening around us.The aim of this International Conference is to encourage academics, scholars and practitioners representing a exciting diversity of countries, cultures, and religion to meet and exchange ideas and views in a forum encouraging respectful dialogue. By bringing together a number of university scholars working throughout Japan, Asia, and beyond to share ideas, ACLL 2013 will afford the opportunity for renewing old acquaintances, making new contacts, and networking across higher education and beyond.
We hope you can join us in Osaka in 2013!
Professor Steve Cornwell,
Conference Chairman, ACLL/ACTC 2013
Professor, Department of International and English Interdisciplinary Studies, Osaka Women’s University, Japan
Director of Programs, and Member of the Board of Directors, Japan Association of Language Teachers (JALT)
IAFOR International IAB Member
CALL FOR PAPERS: SUBMISSIONS SYSTEM NOW OPEN – DEADLINE = JANUARY 1, 2013
The conference theme is “Shifting Paradigms: Informed Responses” and the organizers encourage submissions that approach this theme from a variety of perspectives. However, the submission of other topics for consideration is welcome and we also encourage sessions within and across a variety of disciplines and fields related to Language Learning and Teaching, including the following streams:
- Alternative assessment
- Anxiety and Motivation
- Bilingualism
- Blended learning
- Constructivist approaches
- Conversation analysis
- Cross-Cultural Communication
- Design
- First language acquisition
- Gaming and Simulation
- Individual differences
- Innovative language teaching and learning methodologies
- Interactional competence
- Inter-group relations
- Knowledge management/LMS
- Language education
- Learner and teacher autonomy
- Learning Environments
- Learning Strategies
- Learning third languages
- Life long learning
- Literacy
- Linguistics
- Methodology
- Open Learning Initiative (OLI)
- Phonetics and Phonology
- Pragmatics
- Sociolinguistics
- World Englishes
- Teacher training
- Testing and evaluation
- The good language learner
- Translation and Interpretation.
Publishing Opportunities
Authors of Accepted Abstracts will have the opportunity of publishing their associated paper in the official conference proceedings, and a selection of papers will be considered for inclusion in the IAFOR Journal of Language Learning. For more information about the journal, please go to the website.
If you have any questions, please send an email to acll@iafor.org
Visit the conference website: http://acll.iafor.org/index.