<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Dear Colleagues,</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">Enclosed please find the conference call for Poland's first CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning) conference - PL-CALL, which is to be held in Warsaw, Poland, 9-10 May 2013.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">We will be thrilled if you yourselves attend the conference. You may also - at will - spread the word about this event to whoever you think may be interested.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">Please note - as specified in the call - that registration for the conference is possible online at <a href="http://pl-call.pl/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://pl-call.pl/</a></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB">University of Social Sciences in
Warsaw, School of English</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB">is happy to announce a call for
papers for </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span lang="EN-GB">the first PL-CALL conference</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB">to be held on 9-10 May 2013</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB">The new media have long become an
essential part of the foreign language classroom, and Computer Assisted
Language Learning (CALL), once a rarity – if not an oddity – is now becoming a
standard in schools. What follows is a growing interest in the research into
the effectiveness of CALL as well as building bridges between the new media and
traditional methodology. Such efforts, both on the part of ongoing teachers as
well as academics, which have become increasingly popular worldwide, seem to be
rare and dispersed in Poland. Our conference is an attempt to amend the
situation in the realm of research by bringing together the results of CALL
studies carried out in Poland as well as shedding light at foreign research
into the new media in language education.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><b>Keynote speakers: </b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB">Melinda Dooly, Universitat
Autònoma de Barcelona </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB">Mirjam Hauck, Department of
Languages, Open University, United Kingdom </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB">Andreas Müller-Hartman,
Pädagogische Hochschule, Heidelberg, Germany </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB">Włodzimierz Sobkowiak, English Faculty,
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB">In addition, we are planning a
number of online plenary lectures by outstanding CALL scholars and
practitioners.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><b>Areas of interest include, but are
not limited to: </b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB">Theoretical perspectives in CALL </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB">Individual differences and CALL </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB">Social media and networking;
telecollaboration; building and sustaining online LL communities</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB"> Project work in CALL </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB">Teachers and learners of the new
millennium </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB">New techniques - new contexts -
new methodologies? </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB">Mobile learning </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB">Virtual learning environments
(VLEs) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB">Computer-Mediated-Communication
(CMC) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB">Personal learning environments
(PLEs) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB">Virtual worlds in language
education </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB">E-course design; e-material
writing </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB">Corpora in language learning</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><b>Additionally, </b>the conference will
proudly host Poland’s first Telecollaboration Workshop facilitated by Andreas
Müller-Hartman (Pädagogische Hochschule, Heidelberg, Germany) and Małgorzata
Kurek (College of Foreign Languages, Częstochowa, Poland).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><b>Registration online</b>: <a href="http://pl-call.pl/" target="_blank">http://pl-call.pl/</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><b>Important dates:</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB">15 Dec 2012 – abstract submission
deadline</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB">30 Jan 2013 – paper acceptance
notification</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB">31 March 2013 – Second Circular /
early-bird registration deadline</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB">30 April 2013 – registration
deadline</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB">9-10 May 2013 – PL-CALL Conference</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB">15 Sept 2013 – article submission
deadline</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB">2014 – monograph publication*</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB">*The book will be published by
Peter Lang, Frankfurt</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><b>Organising Committee: </b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB">Anna Turula (University of Social
Sciences) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB">Przemysław Stencel (EuroCALL
representative for Poland) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB">Beata Mikolajewska (University of
Social Sciences / University of Warsaw)</span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
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<span lang="EN-GB"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB"><br>
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">Kind regards,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">Beata Mikolajewska</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span lang="EN-GB">PL CALL Secretary</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">School of English</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">University of Social Sciences</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">Warsaw, </span>Poland</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<a href="http://pl-call.pl/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://pl-call.pl/</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
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