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    ACLL 2017 - The Asian Conference on Language Learning 2017 (ACLL2017)

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    Category Education; Language Learning

    Deadline: December 28, 2016 | Date: May 11, 2017-May 14, 2017

    Venue/Country: Art Center Kobe, Japan

    Updated: 2016-09-15 12:59:15 (GMT+9)

    Call For Papers - CFP

    The International Academic Forum (IAFOR), in conjunction with its global university and institutional partners, is proud to announce The Asian Conference on Language Learning 2017 (ACLL2017).

    This international and interdisciplinary conference will act as a centre for academics, practitioners and professionals to discuss new research in Language Learning. ACLL2017 will create opportunities for the internationalisation of higher education and sharing of expertise. We invite professionals from all corners of the world to develop policies, exchange ideas, and promote new partnerships with organisations and peers.

    The Asian Conference on Language Learning 2017 will be held alongside The Asian Conference on Technology in the Classroom (ACTC2017). Registration for either of these conferences will allow participants to attend sessions in the other.

    Conference Theme: “Educating for Change”

    Whether we are looking at why we must change, or how education has changed or even how education will change, change affects all of us involved in language education in many ways. Administrators, teacher trainers, teachers, students: we all wear many hats and we all come face-to-face with change, sometimes on a daily basis. Positive change is about improvement: improving proficiency, improving lives, helping learners achieve their goals and dreams and ultimately, broadening horizons.

    In our work as educators we are often asked to effect change – that we are change-makers can be seen in the new curriculums, new material, and even new techniques or methods that we develop. For those of us who conduct research, our research is often focused on finding “better” or more effective ways of teaching often measured in outcomes such as students entered with an average of X and improved to an average of Y. In such a case, improvement = change! But change is also an area of research as can be seen by looking at journals such as the Journal of Educational Change, Changes in Higher Education, Culture and Change, and Educational Research for Social Change, to mention four. It is a serious area of study, and one worth our attention.

    The focus of the last journal mentioned above is worth looking at. Change is not only about test scores or proficiency going up. It is also about lasting change in one’s life, life choices, and looking beyond us as individuals, the society we live in. Social change and a focus on improving the societies we live in is another outcome of education. In recent years, there has been a focus on language and identity. And there has been an embrace of sociocultural theory and language development.

    At the same time change for the sake of change is not a good reason for change. There is often a tension between the status quo (which is not always bad) and the desire to change. As invested members of our field, we need to be able to examine change, identifying and applying that which is appropriate and will further our goals while also having the wisdom and gumption to reject change that does not make sense. As Dewey said, “reforms which rest simply upon the enactment of law, or the threatening of certain penalties, or upon changes in mechanical or outward arrangements are transitory and futile.”

    And so we welcome you to this year’s conferences, where we can examine change in ways that are important to each of us. What are its challenges, its complexities, and its constraints? It is electrifying to think about the wide-ranging conversations we will have as we consider how we can go about educating for change the world over.

    In conjunction with our global partners, we look forward to extending a warm welcome to you in 2017.

    Submissions are organised into the following thematic streams:

    Alternative assessment

    Anxiety & 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

    Submit your research and join the discussion. Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be submitted by December 28, 2016.

    To submit an abstract, please log into the IAFOR Submission System:

    http://iafor.org/iafor/iafor-submission-system/login.php

    For more information on ACLL2017, please visit the conference website:

    http://iafor.org/conferences/acll2017/

    We look forward to seeing you in Kobe!


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