<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Dear Friends and Colleagues, </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><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>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.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Owing to the generosity of the
University of Social Sciences in Warsaw (PL-CALL host institution), we have
been subsidised and are happy to announce the new, <b>lower conference fee</b>. Consequently,
the conference registration is extended <b>until
31 January 2013</b>. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">For more information about
registration and payment, go to <a href="http://pl-call.pl/registration-and-payment/">http://pl-call.pl/registration-and-payment/</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">PL-CALL CONFERENCE</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify">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.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">TOPICS</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Theoretical perspectives in CALL</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Individual differences and CALL</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Social media and networking;
telecollaboration; building and sustaining online LL communities</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Project work in CALL</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Teachers and learners of the new
millennium</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">New techniques – new contexts – new
methodologies?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Mobile learning</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Virtual learning environments (VLEs)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Computer-Mediated-Communication
(CMC)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Personal learning environments
(PLEs)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Virtual worlds in language education</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">E-course design; e-material writing</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Corpora in language learning</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Additionally, 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).</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">KEYNOTE SPEAKERS</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Melinda Dooly, Universitat Autònoma
de Barcelona</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Mirjam Hauck, Department of
Languages, Open University, United Kingdom</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Andreas Müller-Hartman, Pädagogische
Hochschule, Heidelberg, Germany</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Włodzimierz Sobkowiak, English
Faculty, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">In addition, we are planning a
number of online plenary lectures by outstanding CALL scholars and
practitioners.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">IMPORTANT DATES</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b>31 Jan 2013 – abstract submission deadline</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">28 Feb 2013 – paper acceptance
notification / Second Circular</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">31 March 2013 – early-bird
registration deadline</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">30 April 2013 – registration
deadline</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">9-10 May 2013 – PL-CALL Conference</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">15 Sept 2013 – article submission
deadline</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">2014 – monograph publication*</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">*The book will be published by Peter
Lang, Frankfurt</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB">PL-CALL Conference Organisers</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB">University of Social Sciences</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB">Warsaw</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB">Poland</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://pl-call.pl/">http://pl-call.pl/</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/PlCallConference">https://www.facebook.com/PlCallConference</a></span></p>