[Edling] Call for Proposals - Conference on Language, Learning, & Culture - Making Research Matter

Mon Nov 27 22:41:09 UTC 2017

Dear EDLING Members,

Registration is now open and we are still accepting proposals for the 2018 Conference on Language, Learning, and Culture<https://conference.viu.edu/cllc/>!

Making Research Matter:
Motivated Inquiry for Actionable Insights

Conference Dates:
April 6-7, 2018

Location:
Virginia International University
4401 Village Drive, Fairfax, VA, 22030 USA

Registration:
http://conference.viu.edu/cllc/content/registration

Proposal Submission:
http://conference.viu.edu/cllc/content/call-for-proposals

Proposal Submission Deadlines:
For early notification (in mid-January): December 4, 2017
For regular notification (in late January): December 18, 2017

In focusing on "Making Research Matter," CLLC 2018 seeks to stimulate conversations on how research and its uses in society might be transformed if more of us were to make a point of asking for what, for whom, and by whom research is being conducted at the outset of every investigation.

Our aim is to involve a diverse group of educators, language learners, researchers, assessment specialists, instructional designers, administrators, policy-makers, community members, and other stakeholders in a multidirectional sharing of values and expertise. We especially welcome proposals involving projects in which the investigators considered the users and uses of their research from the very beginning and made decisions accordingly-from action-research projects conducted by individual teachers in their classrooms to larger-scale funded endeavors where collaborative teams had an eye toward wider public engagement and policy impacts, and everything in between.

We hope that conference participants' experiences at CLLC 2018 will yield insights, tools, and connections that improve all groups' abilities to formulate meaningful research questions; identify collaborators and establish research-practice partnerships; recruit and involve research participants in ways that maximize their benefits; make the results accessible to a variety of audiences; and ensure that findings are not misinterpreted in public conversations and policy debates. By working together to promote Motivated Inquiry for Actionable Insights, we may be even better equipped to improve educational policies and practices related to language, learning, and culture.

Proposal Types:

Paper presentation

  *   20-minute presentation, followed by 10 minutes for Q&A
  *   Suitable for reports of projects whose results are (nearly) ready for publication

Poster

  *   1-hour block, with presenters standing by their posters to engage in small-group conversations
  *   Suitable for projects that are in progress or smaller in scale (e.g., pilot studies), or for in-depth descriptions of data (more detailed than might be possible in 20 minutes)

Practice-oriented session

  *   45 minutes for hands-on activities, 15 minutes for follow-up Q&A
  *   A carefully structured practice-oriented professional development session involving a demonstration, guided problem-solving or creative activity, and reflections on practice

Workshop

  *   2 hours: 100 minutes for the workshop activities, 20 minutes for follow-up Q&A
  *   A carefully structured, hands-on workshop involving a demonstration, guided problem-solving or creative activity, and reflections on practice

Colloquium

  *   Can be held in a 1-hour, 1.5-hour, or 2-hour block (As part of the submission, please specify which is intended and how much time will be devoted to audience Q&A)
  *   A set of presentations on related topics
  *   The organizer introduces the topic, presenters, and schedule; provides a framework; and mediates the Q&A
  *   An optional discussant can synthesize and interpret the presentations before the Q&A and/or draw larger conclusions following the Q&A

Panel

  *   45 minutes for the panel discussion, 15 minutes for audience Q&A
  *   Panelists share their perspectives on a topic, then respond to one another's positions
  *   The organizer introduces the topic, panelists, and procedures, then mediates a Q&A

Guidelines:
For workshops, posters, and paper presentations, abstracts should be no more than 400 words in length. For a colloquium or panel discussion, the organizer should submit a single abstract on behalf of the group, devoting 300 words to the overall theme and intended outcomes and 200 words to each paper or panelist included. All submissions should include a 50-word summary of each presentation for inclusion in the conference program. Titles of presentations should be no more than 15 words.

In addition to the usual components of an abstract (e.g., review of previous work, rationale, participants, methods, results, conclusions, implications), each proposal should indicate its relevance to the conference theme and explicitly outline 3-5 intended outcomes for the audience addressing the following question: What will attendees understand and/or be able to do by the completion of the session?
Each proposal will be reviewed (double-blind) by at least 2 raters using this rubric:  https://conference.viu.edu/cllc/content/Proposal-Review-Rubric

With questions, please contact Kevin Martin at kevin at viu.edu<mailto:kevin at viu.edu>. To volunteer, please contact Rebecca Sachs at rsachs at viu.edu<mailto:rsachs at viu.edu>.

We look forward to receiving your proposal submissions and welcoming you to CLLC 2018!

Kevin Martin and Rebecca Sachs
Organizers, Conference on Language, Learning, and Culture

Kevin J. Martin
Associate Dean, School of Education
Conference on Language, Learning, and Culture Organizer
Kappa Delta Pi Liaison

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