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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Dear Shannon and Francis, </span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Hope all is well at your end; no doubt you are both busy. Spring is
now on its way here, and they say that next week we will degrees
around +15 C. </span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Below, I paste the call for papers for a conference in November that I
am organising with some colleagues. First, there is a Swedish
version, which is then followed by an English version.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Marie</span></font></div>
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<p align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="6"><span style="font-size:24pt"><b>ASLAs höstsymposium i
Lund 8-9 november 2007</b></span></font></p>
<p align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5"><span style="font-size:18pt"><b><i>Språkinlärning, språkdidaktik och
teknologi</i></b></span></font><font face="ËÎÌå" size="5"><span style="font-size:18pt"><b> </b></span></font><font face="Times New Roman" size="5"><span style="font-size:18pt"><b> </b></span></font></p>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">På ASLAs höstsymposium 2007 presenteras forskning, utvärderingar
och exempel inom områdena språkinlärning och språkdidaktik.
Vi inbjuder särskilt, men inte endast, bidrag som kopplar dessa två
områden till användandet av ny teknologi. Symposiet syftar till att bli
en tvärvetenskaplig mötesplats för forskare, lärare och utvecklare
som från olika perspektiv arbetar med språkinlärning och
språkundervisning. </span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Vi välkomnar bidrag inom följande områden: </span></font></div>
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<li style="margin-left=8mm; margin-right=0mm; padding-left=0mm; color= #010101; ">
<p><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">språkinlärning, utveckling eller inlärning av modersmål,
andraspråk eller främmande språk. </span></font></p>
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<li style="margin-left=8mm; margin-right=0mm; padding-left=0mm; color= #010101; "><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">språkdidaktik, bedömning, testning
och diagnos </span></font></li>
<li style="margin-left=8mm; margin-right=0mm; padding-left=0mm; color= #010101; "><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">kopplingar mellan teknologi och
språkinlärning och
språkdidaktik. </span></font></li>
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<font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Programmet kommer att inkludera tre plenarföredrag av: </span></font>
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<li style="margin-left=8mm; margin-right=0mm; padding-left=0mm; color= #010101; ">
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Skolminister Jan Björklund, Utbildningsdepartementet</span></font></div>
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<li style="margin-left=8mm; margin-right=0mm; padding-left=0mm; color= #010101; "><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Professor Sylviane Granger, Université
catholique de
Louvain, Belgien</span></font></li>
<li style="margin-left=8mm; margin-right=0mm; padding-left=0mm; color= #010101; "><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Professor Sven Strömqvist, Lunds universitet</span></font></li>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Välkomna till Språk- och litteraturcentrum i Lund. Konferensen
organiseras i samarbete med </span></font><a href="http://www.sol.lu.se/humlab/?expand_menu=7"><font face="Arial">
<u>Humanistlaboratoriet</u></font></a><font face="Arial">
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<div align="left"><a href="http://asla2007.sol.lu.se/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><u>Sista dag för att skicka
in abstracts är den 15 augusti 2007</u></span></font></a><br/>
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<div align="left"><a href="http://asla2007.sol.lu.se/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6&Itemid=12"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><u>Sista dag för
anmälan till konferensen är den 15 september 2007</u></span></font></a><font face="Arial">
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Organisationskommittée vid Språk- och litteraturcentrum, Lunds
universitet</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Jonas Granfeldt, franska</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Gisela Håkansson, lingvistik</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Marie Källkvist, engelska</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Suzanne Schlyter, franska</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">För ytterligare information se konferenshemsidan
</span></font><a href="http://asla2007.sol.lu.se/"><font face="Arial">
<u>http://asla2007.sol.lu.se/</u></font></a></div>
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<p align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="6"><span style="font-size:24pt"><b>ASLA's annual conference</b></span></font></p>
<p align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="6"><span style="font-size:24pt"><b> Lund University, 8-9
November 2007 </b></span></font></p>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">ASLA’s annual conference will be held at the Centre for Languages
and Literature, Lund University, 8-9 November, 2007:</span></font><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"> </span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5"><span style="font-size:18pt"><b><i>Language Learning, Language
Teaching and Technology</i></b></span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">ASLA’s 2007 conference at Lund University aims to serve as an
interdisciplinary forum for researchers, teachers/lecturers and
technology developers who study language learning and language
teaching from a range of different perspectives. We invite
contributions within the following general areas: <br/>
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<li style="margin-left=8mm; margin-right=0mm; padding-left=0mm; color= #010101; ">
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Language learning (mother tongue, second languages,
foreign languages etc)</span></font><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"> </span></font></div>
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<li style="margin-left=8mm; margin-right=0mm; padding-left=0mm; color= #010101; "><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Language teaching, assessment, testing and
diagnosis</span></font><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"> </span></font></li>
<li style="margin-left=8mm; margin-right=0mm; padding-left=0mm; color= #010101; "><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">The use of technology in language learning
research and in
language teaching</span></font><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"> <br/>
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<font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Presentations which link language learning and/or teaching to the
use of new technologies are particularly welcome. <br/>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">The programme will include three plenary lectures by:</span></font></div>
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<li style="margin-left=8mm; margin-right=0mm; padding-left=0mm; color= #010101; ">
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Minister for Schools, Jan Björklund, Ministry of Education
and Research</span></font></div>
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<li style="margin-left=8mm; margin-right=0mm; padding-left=0mm; color= #010101; "><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Professor Sylviane Granger, Université
catholique de
Louvain, Belgium </span></font></li>
<li style="margin-left=8mm; margin-right=0mm; padding-left=0mm; color= #010101; "><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Professor Sven Strömqvist, Lund University</span></font></li>
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<p><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">We are pleased to welcome you to the Centre for Languages and
Literature. The conference will be organised in collaboration with the
</span></font><a href="http://www.sol.lu.se/humlab/?expand_menu=7&language=EN"><font face="Arial">
<u>Humanties Lab</u></font></a><font face="Arial">
at the Centre for Languages and Literature. </font></p>
<p><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Organising Committee at the Centre for Languages and Literature,
Lund University:</span></font></p>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Jonas Granfeldt, French</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Gisela Håkansson, Linguistics</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Marie Källkvist, English</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Suzanne Schlyter, French</span></font></div>
<p><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Deadline for abstract submissions is 15 August, 2007. </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Deadline for registration is 15 September, 2007.</span></font></p>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">For more information please refer to the conference webpage:
</span></font><a href="http://asla2007.sol.lu.se/"><font face="Arial">
<u>http://asla2007.sol.lu.se/</u></font></a></div>
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