[EDLING:1088] CFP: Pragmatics in the CJK Classroom: The State of the Art

[Tamara Warhol]

Date: 15-Nov-2005
From: Dina Yoshimi <dinarhawaii.edu>
Subject: Pragmatics in the CJK Classroom: The State of the Art



Full Title: Pragmatics in the CJK Classroom: The State of the Art

Date: 05-Jun-2006 - 07-Jun-2006
Location: Honolulu, HI, USA
Contact Person: Christopher Bondy
Meeting Email: < click here to access email >
Web Site: http://www.hawaii.edu/nrcea/CJKCallforPapers.htm

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Pragmatics

Subject Language(s): Chinese, Mandarin; Japanese; Korean

Call Deadline: 05-Jan-2006

Meeting Description:

The University of Hawai'i-Manoa National Resource Center East Asia in 
conjunction with the National Foreign Language Resource Center at the 
University of Hawai'i-Manoa is pleased to announce a forum on teaching 
and learning pragmatics in the Chinese, Japanese and Korean as a Foreign 
Language classrooms.

This forum has been organized to foster the fruitful interchange of 
research results and instructional innovations pertaining to the 
teaching and learning of the pragmatics of these East Asian Languages at 
the high school, college/university, and professional levels.

Over the course of the three-day forum morning sessions will be 
dedicated to the presentation of refereed papers in three areas: 1) 
Instruction and/or Assessment of L2 Pragmatics, 2) L2 Learner Pragmatic 
Development, and 3) Pragmatics and L2 Business Language. Afternoon 
sessions will consist of both invited and refereed workshops on various 
dimensions of pragmatics-focused L2 pedagogy (i.e., materials 
development, instructional approaches, learner assessment, etc.).



Two types of proposals are invited:

1) Conference papers

Presentations of unpublished research in the following areas are welcome:

-Pragmatics-focused L2 instruction (including on-line courses)

-Developing instructional materials for pragmatics-focused L2 instruction

-Assessment of pragmatics in the L2 classroom

-L2 learner pragmatic development

-L2 teacher/learner classroom talk (pragmatics-focused)

2) Pedagogical Workshops

Proposals may address instructional approaches, materials development, 
assessment methods, or some other practical aspect of pragmatics-focused 
foreign/second language instruction.

The deadline for receipt of proposals is January 5, 2006. Submissions 
are by email only. Please visit our website for further information and 
proposal submission guidelines:

http://www.hawaii.edu/nrcea/CJKCallforPapers.htm