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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000">Please see attached or below our call for abstracts for presentations at our upcoming Conference on Teaching Additional Languages
Online, which will be held via Zoom on 5-6 March 2021. <br>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip-ink:none">Call for Proposals: Conference on Teaching Additional
Languages Online (5-6 March 2021, via Zoom)</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000">The past year has brought many changes to pedagogical contexts and ways of teaching in diverse educational settings. The shift
to online and remote learning has spurred on efforts to learn about, and implement, best practices for teaching from afar. Online and remote language teaching pose special challenges and opportunities. This conference seeks to address these challenges with
particular attention to bridging theory with practice and bringing research findings to the classroom. We invite submissions of proposals to present on topics related to online language teaching. The conference will take place over two days (5-6 March), and
a total of four panels will be held, one devoted to each of these topics:</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span>Issues of equity and inclusion in online language teaching</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span>Innovative techniques for teaching languages remotely</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span>Teaching culture using online tools</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span>Assessment of language skills online</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000">Abstracts 250 words maximum, plus references. Presentations will be allocated 15 minutes plus time for questions. The deadline
for submission is </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700">1 February 2021</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000">. Participants will be notified of the outcome of their submission by
</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700">8 February 2021</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000">. Please include the following information: </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span>Your name</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span>Your position (e.g. PhD student, Assistant professor, Grade 9 Spanish teacher)</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span>The title of the panel in which you envision presenting (choose from above) </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span>Type of talk (research-based, teaching-based, etc.)</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span>Title and up to 250 word abstract followed by references cited in the abstract</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span>Up to 3 keywords/phrases</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span>Send the above information in a PDF to
</span><a href="mailto:conference.talo@gmail.com"><span style="text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip-ink:none">conference.talo@gmail.com</span></a></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000">Abstracts will be blind peer-reviewed. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000">Information about registering to attend the conference via Zoom will be circulated in the coming weeks. Conference registration
will be free, but the number of attendees at each panel will be limited based on Zoom meeting capacity.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><i>Associate Professor of Spanish <br>
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<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px">Faculty of Arts</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><span style="font-size:12.5pt">Phone: 403-220-6734<br>
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<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><span style="font-size:12.5pt">angela.george@ucalgary.ca<br>
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<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><span style="font-size:12.5pt"><a href="http://angelageorge.ucalgaryblogs.ca/">http://angelageorge.ucalgaryblogs.ca/</a><br>
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