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Sarolta · Joined: 25 Nov 2007 Posts: 75 Location: Izola

43rd ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL IATEFL CONFERNCE AND EXHIBITION
CARDIFF 31ST MARCH - 4TH APRIL 2009

The conference will bring together ELT professionals from around the world to discuss, reflect on and develop their ideas. The conference programme will offer many opportunities for professional contact and development. It involves a four-day programme of over 300 talks, poster presentations, workshops, panel discussions and symposiums. It also gives delegates a chance to meet leading theorists and writers, and exchange ideas with fellow professionals from all sectors of ELT, as well as enabling them to see the latest ELT publications and services in the resources exhibition.

Dates to note
22 September 2008 - deadline for speaker proposals and scholarship applications
30 January 2009 - deadline for other delegates to benefit from the earlybird registration fee
31st March 2009 - Pre-Conference Events and Associates' Day
1-4 April 2009 - Conference and Exhibition

URL: http://www.iatefl.org/content/conferences/2009/index.php

Sarolta · Joined: 25 Nov 2007 Posts: 75 Location: Izola

English for Specific Purposes
English for the Workplace (E4WP) in the 21st Century

The purpose of the 2009 Pre-Conference Event (PCE) of the ESP SIG is to provide a cutting-edge international survey of the current approaches to English for the Workplace as a sub-area of ESP (English for Specific Purposes) and EOP (English for Occupational Purposes).

The last three years have witnessed an unprecedented level of interest in the developments in E4WP which seems to be a topical issue impacting on the employment scene where English is used as a medium of professional communication. Recent examples of the importance of E4WP include, inter alia, British immediate plans to require all non-British football players to take a special occupational English test in order to work in the UK, the Chinese initiative to ensure that all Beijing taxi drivers speak some work-related English for the 2008 Olympic Games, and the Omani tourist industry doing its best to provide English-speaking services to visitors throughout the country. E4WP is also very important for the higher education sector, and at present there is an ‘explosion’ of professional university courses related to English for Engineering, English for Law and English for Architecture.

The interest in E4WP has resurfaced, and is now at the top of the agenda for educators, academics, ELT professionals, ministry decision makers, course providers and publishers. This event will be a forum for exchange of state-of-the-art expertise in the area. In addition to the talks provided by key international experts who specialize in the topic, there will be presentations prepared by other professionals who take an interest in the theme.

We welcome additional contributions from any ESP/EAP colleagues who would like to present a talk and share their experience in connection with the theme of the PCE, and will do our best to ensure that the final selection of the approved papers is officially published for the benefit of all EAP and ESP practitioners worldwide.

URL: http://www.iatefl.org/downloads/Preliminary%20Conference%20Brochure.pdf

Sarolta · Joined: 25 Nov 2007 Posts: 75 Location: Izola

Asia-Pacific Rim LSP and Professional Communication Association
8-10 December 2008, Hong Kong

The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers and practitioners in Languages for Specific Purposes (LSP) and Professional Communication in the broad Asia-Pacific Rim region to contribute to a stimulating and dynamic exchange of ideas in communication research, practice, training, and assessment. It also marks the inauguration of the Asia-Pacific Rim LSP and Professional Communication Association. The primary aim of the proposed Association will be to promote transdisciplinary and collaborative research and training, and to facilitate sharing of resources in LSP and Professional Communication in the Asia-Pacific Rim region.

The conference is jointly organised by Department of English and Communication, City University of Hong Kong and Research Centre for Professional Communication in English, Department of English, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

We invite papers or posters that explore communication research, practice and training in any of the following areas:

Research
* Discourse studies of academic, professional, institutional and other workplace contexts
* Approaches and methodologies in LSP and professional communication research
* Information and document design
* Studies in identity and the construction of the work force
* Multimodalities
* Discursive competence and professional expertise

Practice
* Language in the workplace
* Curriculum design for professional development
* On-line and virtual learning of LSP and professional communication
* Learning at the workplace
* Transdisciplinary practices

Training
* Professional communication in corporate training
* Assessment and appraisal
* Recruitment and training
* Staff development
* Consultancy
* Quality assurance

Deadline extended: 15th September 2008
URL: http://www.engl.polyu.edu.hk/lsp/APacLSP08/

Violeta · Joined: 25 Nov 2007 Posts: 28

Vabilo na mednarodno konferenco

JEZIKI V IZOBRAŽEVANJU,

ki bo 25. in 26. septembra 2008 v Ljubljani.

Vstop Slovenije v Evropsko unijo, globalizacija in oblikovanje družbe znanja pomeni za vlogo
slovenšcine.in vseh drugih jezikov veliko spremembo na intelektualnem, kulturnem, ekonomskem
in družbenem. podrocju. Uvid v tokove razvoja jezikov v vecjezicni družbi znanja terja nov
razmislek, tehtno strokovno presojo in ne nazadnje strokovna izhodišca za razvoj jezikovne politike
v izobraževanju.
Namen konference je odpreti strokovni dialog med nacrtovalci jezikovne politike v svetovnem,
evropskem, nacionalnem merilu ter strokovnjaki na podrocju jezikovne politike, znanstvenega
koncepta in prakse v izobraževanju od predšolskega obdobja do univerze in vseživljenjskega
ucenja.
Cilji konference
1. Vpogled v smeri razvoja jezikovne politike v Evropi in RS ter njen vpliv na oblikovanje
jezikovne politike v izobraževanju.
2. Repertoar sporazumevalnih kompetenc posameznika oziroma družbe.
3. Vloge slovenšcine v izobraževanju na Slovenskem.
Konferenca je zasnovana na ekspertni ravni. O plurilingvizmu/vecjezicnosti, svetovni, evropski in
nacionalnijezikovni politiki ter jezikovni politiki v izobraževanju bodo spregovorili
slovenski strokovnjaki (20) - za slovenšcino (kot prvi jezik, kot drugi jezik, kot tuji jezik, kot
uradni jezik), tuje jezike, slovenšcino kot ucni jezik (didaktiki s fakultet za razlicne ucne
predmete - matematika, kemija, geografija) in
strokovnjaki iz tujine (5) - Joseph Lo Bianco (Avstralija), Michael Byram (Velika Britanija),
Helmut Johannes Vollmer (Nemcija), Pirjo Sinko (Finska) in Laila Aase (Norveška).
Metoda dela .
Delo bo potekalo v obliki plenarnih predavanj, delavnic, panelnih diskusij in okrogle mize.
Udeleženci bodo na posvetu aktivno sodelovali in tako prispevali s svojim strokovnim znanjem in z
izkušnjami k
razmisleku o povezanosti jezikovne politike na svetovni, evropski, nacionalni in
formalnoizobraževalni ravni,
razumevanju spremenjene vloge jezikov v vecjezikovni skupnosti doma in po svetu,
ozavešcanju vloge slovenšcine v razmerju do drugih jezikov (tistih, ki se v šoli poucujejo, in
tistih, ki se v šoli ne poucujejo)in drugihucnihpredmetovv izobraževanju. .
K sodelovanju na konferenci vabimo strokovnjake z vseh slovenskih univerz, ministrstev, obeh
zbornic, clane strokovnih svetov, predstavnike javnih zavodov na podrocju vzgoje in izobraževanja.

Prijave pricakujemo do vkljucno 30. 8. 2008 na naslov Zavod RS za šolstvo, za Mileno Ivšek,
Poljanska 28, 1000 Ljubljana oziroma na elektronska naslova: milena.ivsek@zrss.si in
veronika.kaitna@zrss.si ali prek elektronske prijavnice na spletni strani
http://www.zrss.si/multi/prijavnicajeziki.asp

Program dela bodo prijavljeni prejeli v zacetku septembra 2008.

Sarolta · Joined: 25 Nov 2007 Posts: 75 Location: Izola

30th GERAS Conference

12th-14th March 2009

SCELVA – University of Rennes 1

"From non-specialised to specialised: routes towards specialised English"

The 30th GERAS Conference will pursue the discussion begun in 2008 concerning the unity and diversity of English for Specific Purposes (ESP). The distinctive approach in 2009 will examine one of our fields of discipline's defining phenomena: the progression from non-specialised English to specialisation. Suggestions for contributions may approach this question in accordance with the research principles underlying the GERAS.

November 30th, 2008: deadline for submissions

January 15th, 2008: announcement of reviewed papers

URL: http://www.geras.fr/dossiers/dossiers.php?val=129_30th+geras+conference

Sarolta · Joined: 25 Nov 2007 Posts: 75 Location: Izola

eLexicography in the 21st century: new challenges, new applications
Centre for English Corpus Linguistics (CECL)

The conference aims to explore innovative developments in the field of electronic lexicography. It will be held in Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium) from 22 to 24 October 2009.

Deadline for abstract submission: 15 December 2008
Notifications of acceptance / rejection: 27 February 2009

URL: http://www.uclouvain.be/en-cecl-elexicography.html

Sarolta · Joined: 25 Nov 2007 Posts: 75 Location: Izola

CORPUS LINGUISTICS IN PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS
13-14th October 2008

Jezikovni center Univerze v Tuscii v Viterbu (v bližini Rima) organizira dvo-dnevno delavnico o rabi korpusov pri prevajanju in analizi besedil. Avtorji so priznani strokovnjaki in res dajo veliko. Delavnica je primerna za tiste, ki so na tem področju še neizkušeni. Iskreno priporočam.

URL: http://moodle.unitus.it/moodle/course/category.php?id=17
Maksimalno število udeležencev: 30
Registracija do 30.9.2008
Cena: 150 evrov