ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#15 | April 29, 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036
From the conference home page.
Teaching and learning English today is changing in a world that has become more diverse in its cultures and contexts. Teachers, learners, researchers, and administrators find themselves in a period of genuine conversation and dialogue among themselves. They are confronted not only by the challenges of diversity in cultures and contexts, but also by the reality of a language that is dynamic and changing. Today, we do not talk of just one English, but of Englishes.
What are the opportunities and challenges of teaching and learning Englishes across Asian contexts? How do we view the relevance of Englishes today in a classroom of many voices? What roles do Englishes play in educational systems that accommodate a plurality of identities? This conference aims to provide a venue for a critical rethinking and discussion of these relevant concerns.
In particular, the presentations at this conference seek to raise a more informed awareness of Englishes in Asian contexts and facilitate the negotiation of more appropriate classroom practices and research endeavors for more effective policies and pedagogies through the following topics:
· Assessing English language proficiency
· Intelligibility, comprehensibility, interpretability
· Native speaker vs non-native speaker models
· Teaching approaches and methodologies
· ELT curriculum and syllabus design
· Education and language policy
· Second language acquisition
· Materials writing and design
· International/ intercultural communication
· Using literature for teaching English
· Translations in English language teaching
· IT in English language teaching
· Teacher education
· Distance education
· ELT in basic education
· ELT in higher education
· Teaching young learners
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