Vol. 4 Issue 45 – Conference: International Conference on Empowering the English Language Classroom, January 18-19, Jaipur, India

CONCEPT NOTE

English Language Teaching poses many challenges to the language teacher. The diversity of the students’ socio-cultural background, motivation and interest, multiple intelligences and learning styles, differing personalities and behaviour patterns, makes the language teaching task a particularly intricate one. The interests of individual learners vary: they are motivated to learn English to meet their academic, professional or personal needs and may want to focus exclusively on developing a proficiency in writing or a fluency in speech. In order to meet the needs and requirements of individual learners, language teachers need to choose between prescribed language teaching methods and alternative methods keeping in view the wider sociocultural context in which the instruction takes place. In the modern technological age, the transformation in the teaching methodology with the adoption of online teaching resources and multimedia in the language classroom has led to the need for more careful planning and preparation on the part of the teacher. Combined with these are the academic guidelines which specify the expected level of language proficiency of students after they have taken a particular English language course, the integration of the role of English as both a social skill and as a professional requirement, and the pressure on the learner to develop all four language skills simultaneously. This conference aims to focus on the
emerging trends and methodologies in English language teaching which can empower the language class room and enable the learner to use English adeptly and effectively.

OBJECTIVES

• To take up different issues related to ELT in the rapidly changing, technology-dominated academic and professional environment
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  To promote result oriented research in the effective teaching of English
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  To promote interaction among ELT professionals from India and abroad, scholars and aspiring teachers to enable them to understand the major concerns, challenges and issues related to ELT in different cultural contexts
• To identify areas in ELT which require attention and research in the near future.

This International Conference will provide a forum to the international academic community engaged in teaching English language to share their research, experience and views on modern pedagogical approaches and issues and concerns related to English Language teaching and learning in the present context.

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, India, invites English language teachers, professionals and research scholars to submit proposals for individual papers and workshops on the following, or related themes:

• Multiple intelligences and learning styles
• The use of the internet and multimedia in language teaching
• Modern pedagogical approaches and methodologies
• English for fieldwork
• English for media
• English for special purposes
• Vocabulary development
• Using literature for language teaching
• English for professional purposes
• Developing learning material for the teaching of English
• Intercultural communication
• Soft skills and personality development
• Developing translation skills
• Curriculum and syllabus design
• Testing and evaluation
• Interdisciplinarity in English language programmes.

For more information on the conference, please visit www.mnit.ac.in.