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European Second Language Association (EuroSLA) 18
Annual Conference
10-13 Septembre 2008
Aix-en-Provence, France

Conference theme:
Second Language Acquisition research in context

The conference will address issues related to Second Language Acquisition in context, understood both in terms of contextual effects on (the) acquisition (process) and in terms of practical issues such as language testing and curriculum design.

Plenary speakers:
Simona Pekarek Universit� de Neuch�tel
Alex Housen, V.U.B, Bruxelles
Marianne Gullberg, Max Planck Institut f�r Psycholinguistik, Nijmegen
Monika S. Schmid, Rijksuniversiteit, Groningen
Cheryl Frenck-Mestre, CNRS (UMR LPL, U. de Provence)

Thematic Panels (Organizers):
Advanced/Near-native Varieties � Acquisition and Use (Inge Bartning, Stockholm University)
Creole Studies and Second Language Acquisition (Daniel V�ronique, U. de Provence)
The Information Structure of Learner Language (Christine Dimroth, Max Planck Institut f�r Psycholinguistik, Nijmegen)
New tendencies in pragmatics research in SLA (Istvan Kecskes, State University of New York, Albany)

Papers
Papers are invited on every aspect of empirical and theoretical Second Language Acquisition research. However, priority will be given to papers that address issues related to the theme of the conference.
Individual papers will be allotted 20 minutes of presentation plus 10 minutes for discussion. Submissions should adhere to the requirements specified below in sections A and B.

URL: http://eurosla.org/EUROSLA18_callforpapers.html
http://eurosla.org/home.html

2009 LTTC International Conference on English Language Teaching and Testing
March 5-7, 2009 at The Language Training and Testing Center, Taipei, Taiwan

We welcome all areas of second/foreign language research, including, but not limited to:

* Social and educational impact of language testing and assessment
* Review of current language tests
* Teaching, testing, and language policy
* The local and the global in teaching and testing
* Curriculum design and materials development
* Interfacing: teaching English language through literature
* Information technology and ELT
* Corpora in language teaching and testing
* Teaching and testing English for specific purposes
* English, globalization, and the world today
URL: http://www.lttc.ntu.edu.tw/

Department of English, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Rijeka, Croatia
Alpine-Adriatic Anglistics 2008 (AAA 08)
The Global and Local Dimensions of English Language and Literature
25-26 April Rijeka

Deadline: 31 January 2008
Notification of acceptance 10 February 2008

Send a 300-word abstract to mbrala at ffr dot hr and Cc to neliv at ffri dot hr.

Prava zakladnica informacij. Hvala.

Ve kdo mogoče, kdaj bo letos konferenca HDPL? Na njihovi spletni strani še ni nobene informacije.
Hvala in lep pozdrav!

7th Annual International Conference of the European Association of Languages for Specific Purposes (AELFE).

Researching and Teaching Specialized Languages: New Contexts, New Challenges.

Hotel Galúa. La Manga, Murcia, Spain.
18-20 September 2008.

www.um.es/aelfe2008

Deadline for abstracts: 1st March 2008.


P.S. Škoda, da bo istočasno z ESSE.

Seznam konferenc s področja jezikoslovja boste lahko našli tudi tu:

http://www.confabb.com/conferences/list/385?page=1

IATEFL Hungary
”Thinking outside the Box”
Current Approaches and Future Trends in English Language Education

The last three decades in ELT have produced a variety of methods and approaches that have been espoused with various degrees of enthusiasm and success - but how much closer are we to really knowing what makes a successful learner... and a successful teacher? What have we learnt over this period, and how should we approach the future?

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

The organizing committee of the 18th annual IATEFL-Hungary Conference welcome speaker proposal forms for talks and workshops on efficient methodologies and approaches in practice as well as on new developments in materials design, applications of ICT and other innovations in the field of
v the methodology of TEFL and ESP;
v curriculum, syllabus and materials design;
v teacher education (pre- and in-service) and professional development;
v language education related research;
v intercultural communication, multicultural challenges;
v information and communication technology
for educators working in pre-school, primary, secondary and tertiary institutions.

Deadline for sending speaker proposal forms: 31 March 2008

Več o konferenci na http://www.iatefl.hu/

ECEL 2008

7th European Conference on e-Learning

Grecian Bay Hotel, Agia Napa, Cyprus
6-7 November 2008

http://academic-conferences.org/ecel/ec ... papers.htm


This is the second call for papers for the 7th European Conference on
e-Learning, which will be held at the Grecian Bay Hotel, Agia Napa,
Cyprus. on the 6-7 November 2008.

Over the last ten years, the way in which education is delivered has
changed considerably with the advent of new technologies. e-Learning is
one such development, so much so that it is now regarded as a field in
it?s own right. Thus, the 7th European Conference on e-Learning (ECEL
2008), offers an opportunity for those involved in the study,
implementation and delivery of e-learning to meet and exchange ideas and
experiences.

The conference, to be held in November 2008, invites qualitative,
experience-based and quantitative papers, case studies and reports of
work in progress on both the theory and practice of all aspects of
web-enabled technology in learning and teaching. Submissions are
welcomed from academics, teachers, practitioners, vendors and
government departments.

Topics may include, but are not limited to: e-Learning platforms,
portals and Virtual learning environments; Course design; Emerging
and best practices; Partnerships in e-Learning; Evaluation of
e-Learning; Cross-cultural education; e-Learning strategies;
Social benefits of e-Learning; e-Learning effectiveness and
outcomes; Web-based learning, including Wikis and Blogs;
Academic participation and freedom; Learner autonomy;
Security and confidentiality; Self-learning integrated methodology;
Ambient intelligence; Assertive and assistive educational
technology; Computer-aided assessment; Learning content management
systems; AV-communication and other media; Digital classrooms; Blended
learning; Collaborative on-line learning; Content repositories; Data
envelopment analysis; Meta data standards; Ontologies; Pedagogical
models; Needs analysis; Global trends in e-Learning; Corporate training;
Managing quality in e-Learning; Synchronic software; Educating the
educators; Web 2.0 technologies; Mobile learning; Simulated communities;
Online mentoring; e-Benchmarking; Cultural, social and gender issues;
Personalisation; National/international strategies.

Abstracts are required in the first instance and should be submitted
by 22nd of May 2008 via the online form at
http://academic-conferences.org/ecel/ec ... ission.htm

LINGUISTICS OF PUBLIC COMMUNICATION
22nd International Conference
May, 22– 24, 2008
Osijek (Croatia)

Key-note speakers:
Jef Verschueren (Antwerpen, Belgium)
Erich Prunč (Graz, Austria)
Piotr Cap (Łodż, Poland)

Theme sessions:

DISTINCTIVE PHENOMENOLOGICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL FEATURES OF THE LANGUAGE OF PUBLIC COMMUNICATION
T.1.1. Domains of public communication
T.1.2. Communication spaces
T.1.3. The relationship of public and private communication
T.1.4. Public communication and functional styles
T.1.5. Public communication and social status
T.1.6. Types of public discourse
T.1.7. Monologic and dialogic public communication
T.1.8. Formal and informal public communication
T.1.9. Conversational strategies in public communication
T.1.10. Stylization of public communication (colloquialization, intimiziation, internationalization, archaization)
T.1.11. Rhetorical devices in public communication
T.1.12. Political correctness

POLITICAL DISCOURSE
T.2.1. Political discourse as a model of public and private
communication
T.2.2. Language of manipulation
T.2.3. Ideologization of language

PUBLIC COMMUNICATION AND MASS MEDIA
T.5.1. The language of print media
T.5.2. The language of e-media
T.5.3. The language of advertising and campaigns

PUBLIC COMMUNICATION IN THE CORPORATE AND INSTITUTIONAL WORLD
T.6.1. Marketing and communication
T.6.2. Linguistic aspects of PR
T.6.3. Communication within a corporation
T.6.4. Business communication
T.6.6. Public communication in science
T.6.7. Religious discourse

BETWEEN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COMMUNICATION
T.7.1. New technologies and new language uses and forms (instant messaging, telephone communication, e-mail, chatrooms, blogosphere, video-conferencing)
T.7.2. Personal elements in public communication

COMMUNICATION IN TEACHING SITUATIONS (TEACHING OF MOTHER
TONGUE/TEACHING OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE/INSTRUCTION IN MOTHER
TONGUE
T.8.1. Types of communicative situations in language teaching
T.8.2. Teaching communicative competence
T.8.3. Communication studies: academic field of study and career
prospects
T.8.4. (Multi)language policy
T.8.5. Individual differences and communicative competence
T.8.6. Communicative strategies
T.8.7. Types of classroom discourse

INTERPRETING AND INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION
T.10.1. Interpreting as a special discourse type
T.10.2. Interpreting as asymmetric communication
T.10.3. Norms in interpreting
T.10.4. The role and status of the speaker in the communication act of
interpreting

COMMUNICATION DISORDERS AND SPECIAL FORMS OF COMMUNICATION
T.11.1. Autism and communication
T.11.2. Speech pathology and public communication
T.11.3. Communication and sign languages
T.13. ASPECTS OF PUBLIC COMMUNICATION IN MULTILINGUAL AND
MULTICULTURAL COMMUNITIES
T.14. THE RELATIONSHIP OF VERBAL AND NON-VERBAL PUBLIC
COMMUNICATION

Abstracts: April 10, 2008

URL: http://www.hdpl.hr/znanstveni_skupovi.html

LSP 2009. CRETE

The University of Crete Language Instructors are pleased to invite you to the International Language for Specific Purposes Conference in Heraklion, Crete, held on February 7th and 8th, 2009 at the premises of the University of Crete, in Heraklion.

This conference will provide an opportunity for language teachers to share experiences and contribute their expertise to their counterparts in Europe. It will allow us to establish a network between L.S.P.
practitioners working in Universities, Polytechnics, Colleges or Vocational Schools.

We encourage authors to submit papers pertaining to the scope of the conference, describing original work, reporting research results and/or indicating future directions. Accepted papers will be presented at the conference by one of the authors and published in the proceedings. Acceptance will be based on quality, relevance and originality. The deadline for Abstract Submission is 29th June 2008.

Topics of interest include but they are not limited to:
Needs analysis
Top-down and Bottom-up Approaches
Content-based learning
Skills development
Team-teaching (co-operating with content teachers) Input-based methodologies Consciousness raising activities Output-based methodologies Syllabus and Materials design Fostering Critical awareness The use of Technology Testing and Evaluation

We invite all professionals or academics who work or have an interest in Languages for Specific Academic Purposes to submit an abstract.
Practicing teachers of English, French or German are especially invited to participate.

You may also visit the conference site http://LSPcrete.wordpress.com.

Slovensko društvo za jezikovne tehnologije
Informacijska družba - IS 2008
Šesta konferenca
JEZIKOVNE TEHNOLOGIJE
IS-LTC 2008
15. - 17. oktobra 2008, Ljubljana

V sklopu meta-konference Informacijska družba - IS 2008, ki bo potekala od 13. do 17. oktobra 2008 na Institutu "Jožef Stefan" v Ljubljani vabi Slovensko društvo za jezikovne tehnologije na konferenco o jezikovnih tehnologijah.

To srečanje je šesto v vrsti konferenc o jezikovnih tehnologijah ('98, '00, '02, '04, '06) in organizirano kot mednarodna konferenca z mednarodnim programskim odborom.

Uradna jezika konferenca sta slovenski in angleški. Konferenca bo potekala v dveh delih: v prvem bodo predstavljeni prispevki v angleščini, v drugem pa v slovenščini. Sprejeti prispevki bodo objavljeni v zborniku, ki ga bodo prejeli udeleženci konference ob registraciji. Prispevki bodo objavljeni tudi na spletnih straneh konference.

URL: http://nl.ijs.si/is-ltc08/index-sl.html

Conference "Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice" 26 - 28 February 2009, at University of Vienna, Department of English, Campus Altes AKH, 1090 Vienna Programme The conference will focus on two areas of interest
 EFL teacher education
 Issues and developments in EFL
Papers, poster session, plenary lectures and workshops Plenary Speakers Prof. Amy Tsui (University of Hong Kong) Prof. Penny Ur (University of Haifa) Prof. Henry Widdowson (University of Vienna) Call for contributions If you wish to make a presentation (paper or poster), please send us your abstract (200 words) by 31 October 2008 following the guidelines attached. Conference Fee Regular Participants: € 35.- Students: free attendance Registration
Preliminary registration: Please send an e-mail whether you are planning to attend to barbara.schiftner@univie.ac.at Final registration: on-line from 1 October 2008

CALL FOR PAPERS
Types of presentations available:
1) Paper (20 + 5 mins discussion)
2) Poster (time will be reserved for poster presentations)
If you wish to make a presentation please submit an abstract according to the guidelines below by 31 October 2008.
 Title (up to 100 characters)
 Name, email address of the presenter(s), and institutional affiliation
 The type of the proposal: paper OR poster
 Classification of the proposal in one of the two conference strands:
o Teacher education
o Issues and developments in EFL
Thank You! Please send to barbara.schiftner@univie.ac.at by 31 October 2008

1st INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CORPUS LINGUISTICS
CILC-09
7-9 May, 2009, University of Murcia


CILC-09 is the first event of a conference series launched by AELINCO, the Spanish Association of Corpus Linguistics (the registration of the association is being processed). The conference will be held from Thursday 7th to Saturday 9th May 2009 in the premises of Campus La Merced, University of Murcia, Spain.

We are pleased to announce that the following scholars have confirmed participation as plenary speakers:

-Michael Barlow, University of Auckland (New Zealand)
-Adam Kilgarriff, Lexicography MasterClass (United Kingdom)
-Ramesh Krishnamurthy, University of Aston, Birmingham (United Kingdom)

Researchers are invited to submit paper proposals in English or Spanish for 20-minute presentations or for poster sessions. Papers are welcome from a range of subfields, including applied corpus linguistics, corpus-based and corpus-driven language research, corpus creation and annotation, software development, or any other aspect of corpus linguistics.

The submission deadline is 31st January 2009. Further details in the submission guidelines following the link 'proposals' in the main menu.

GENERAL GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION

20-minute presentations and poster sessions are welcome from a range of subfields, including:

- corpus-based computational linguistics
- corpus-based historical linguistics
- corpus linguistics and linguistic theory
- corpus creation: software development, annotation, tagging and parsing
- corpus-based language research: semantics, lexicology and phraseology
- corpus-based language research: orthography and phonology
- corpus-based language research: morphology and syntax
- corpus-based language research: stylistics and sociolinguistics
- corpus-based language research: discourse analysis and pragmatics
- applications of corpora in language teaching
- applications of corpora in translation
- applications of corpora in lexicography .

URL: http://www.um.es/congresos/cilc09/cilceng.html