TEFL 2011 - 2011 International Conference and Workshop on TEFL and Applied Linguistics

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Category TEFL 2011

Deadline: November 26, 2010 | Date: March 10, 2011-March 12, 2011

Venue/Country: Taoyuan, Taiwan

Updated: 2010-10-12 07:27:22 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

TEFL & Applied Linguistics

10-12 March 2011

Conference Themes:

Education for English Professions and Other

Uses: Teaching Decisions & Educational Policies

on all Levels

* Teaching Strategies & Techniques

* English for Specific Purposes

* English Teaching: Teacher Training and

Cultivation, Beliefs in Teaching, and

Professional Ethics

* The Trends and Challenges in English

Teaching: Analysis of Goals and outcomes across

different disciplines

* Language Teaching & Assessment

* Second Language Acquisition: Theory

and Application

* ALL and Web in Language Teaching

* Discourse Analysis, Corpus Linguistics, Applied

Psycholinguistics and Applied Socialinguistics

* Cultural Dynamics in English Education:

Literary Studies and Social Praxis

Other relevant topics are also welcome (e.g.,

one-day tour, translation, business etc.)

Plenary Speakers

1. Jack Richards, Professor of Regional Language

Centre, (RELC), Singapore: Competence and

Performance in Language Teaching: Implications

for Teacher Education

2. Rose Senior, Senior Research Fellow in the

Graduate School of Education at the University

of Western Australia: Connectivity:

A Guiding Principle for Effective Classroom

Teaching

3. Simon Borg, Reader in TESOL at the University

of Leeds, UK: Teacher Cognition and Teacher

Autonomy

4. Leo Van Lier, Professor of Educational

Linguistics in the Graduate School of

Translation, Interpretation and Language

Education of the Monterey Institute of

International Studies: Ecological linguistics

and action-based teaching and learning

5. Claire Kramsch, Professor of German and

Foreign Language Education, University of

California, Berkeley: Language and Culture in

Foreign Language Education

6. Gu,Yue-Guo, a research professor of

linguistics and head of the Contemporary

Linguistics Dept., the Chinese Academy of Social

Sciences, China

7. Wei, Zhi-Cheng, Professor and

Director of International Languages Department,

Xiamen University of Technology, China. On

Comparative Methodology in Translation

Teaching

8. Dr. Ervin F. Sparapani, Professor of College

of Education, Department of Middle School &

Secondary Education, Saginaw Valley State

University, University Center, Michigan: A

Perspective on the 'One Size Fits all'

Curriculum and Its Effect on Teaching and

Learning

Colloquiums

1. Wen-Ta Tseng, Associate Professor of National

Taiwan Normal U.: An application of the Latent

Trait Model to validating the English

Achievement Tests of a Campaign

2. Chaochang Wang, Hui-Wen Vivian Tang and

Howard Cheng: Graduation papers/ projects: NSC

Student grants

3. Yih-Lan Chen, Chiang-Kang Liu: College-level

English: English Education Policy and

Pedagogical Decision

4. TBA

Talks and Activities

1. Invited speeches, papers, workshops, and

colloquiums (3-4 persons as a team preferred)

2. Drama Performance

3. Banquet: Golden Words Award

MCU

Important dates

Abstract due: November 26th, 2010 (abstract of

no more than 350 words plus CV via email:

mcuae.daegmail.com)

Please check website for more details.

Acceptance notification: December 14th, 2010

Full paper deadline: February 2nd , 2010. 10

pages.

Conference convener: Dr. Chaochang Wang

Conference organizer: Dr. Maggie Su

Contact person: Muse Lin (mcuae.daegmail.com )

Tel: 886-3 350-7001 ext. 3211~3

Fax: 886-3-359-3870

Website: http://www.ae.mcu.edu.tw/modules/tinyd2/