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<P class=MsoNormal style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3><FONT face=Arial><STRONG>8th</STRONG> <B>TALGS</B> <STRONG>(TESOL/ Applied Linguistic Graduate Students) Conference</STRONG> </FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><FONT size=3><FONT face=Calibri><SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d">* TALGS HAS BEEN CO-SPONSORED BY CAROLINA TESOL. INFORMATION/LINK IS ON THE CAROLINA TESOL WEBSITE AS WELL.</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><FONT size=3><FONT face=Calibri><SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d">* PLEASE CONSIDER SUBMITTING A PROPOSAL. CONTINUING EDUCATION UNITS WILL BE AVAILABLE.</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><FONT size=3><SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d"><FONT face=Calibri>* ALL information you can possibly need is on our website</FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"> </SPAN></FONT><A href="https://ruby1604.utsa.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.ecu.edu/cs-cas/engl/talgs" target=_blank><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><FONT face=Calibri size=3>http://www.ecu.edu/cs-cas/engl/talgs</FONT></SPAN></A><FONT size=3><FONT face=Calibri><SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d">. And more below!</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><FONT size=3><FONT face=Calibri><SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d">* The TALGS 2011 advertisement will appear in the brochure of the Carolina TESOL’s fall conference.</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d"><FONT face=Calibri size=3> * If you have any questions, please email </FONT></SPAN><A href="mailto:talgs@ecu.edu" target=_blank><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><FONT face=Calibri size=3>talgs@ecu.edu</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d"><FONT face=Calibri size=3> or </FONT></SPAN><A href="mailto:copel@ecu.edu" target=_blank><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><FONT face=Calibri size=3>copel@ecu.edu</FONT></SPAN></A><FONT size=3><FONT face=Calibri><SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d">. </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">The<B> 8th</B> <B>TALGS</B> <B>(TESOL/ Applied Linguistic Graduate Students) </B>conference will be held at East Carolina University on Saturday, <B>February 19, 2011.</B> Organized by the Linguistics and TESOL graduate students and faculty, TALGS aims to provide a serious yet relaxed environment for graduate students and professionals working in TESL/TEFL/FL and a variety of applied linguistics fields to present their work, receive feedback, and network. The TALGS Conference provides graduate students as well as TESOL and other Foreign Language professionals (including ESOL, TESL, EFL, ESL, TEFL, Spanish, French, German, DLI, etc.) a forum to showcase their research and successful teaching practices. TALGS is committed to bettering the educational experiences of language learners in the community by providing a comfortable environment where an interaction between theory/ research and practice/ teaching is possible.</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 26.25pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">This year’s plenary speaker will be a distinguished scholar and educator, <B>Dr. Ofélia García, Professor of Urban Education at the City University of New York.</B></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 26.25pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">We encourage submission from a variety of fields that can contribute to an understanding of language use, language teaching and/or language learning. We welcome cross-disciplinary proposal submissions. For instance, proposals with relevance to language learning from the fields of sociolinguistics, sociology, education, foreign languages, and psychology will be considered. Proposals grounded in action research (inside and outside the classroom), works in progress, and pilot research are also welcome. </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 26.25pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Continuing Education Units will be offered.</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 26.25pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Presentation proposals should be submitted via the conference website </SPAN><A href="https://ruby1604.utsa.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.ecu.edu/cs-cas/engl/talgs/proposals.cfm" target=_blank><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: purple; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">http://www.ecu.edu/cs-cas/engl/talgs/proposals.cfm</SPAN></B></A><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> </SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">and received no later than <B>Sunday, November 21, 2010. </B></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Conference preregistration at </SPAN><A href="https://ruby1604.utsa.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.ecu.edu/cs-cas/engl/talgs/registration.cfm" target=_blank><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: purple; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">http://www.ecu.edu/cs-cas/engl/talgs/registration.cfm</SPAN></B></A><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> <BR>is now open. Early (very inexpensive) preregistration ends <B>January 19, 2011</B>; preregistration ends <B>February 1, 2011</B>. Registration on site will be available. </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">The TALGS team</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Graduate student organizers:<B> </B></SPAN><A href="mailto:talgs@ecu.edu" target=_blank><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">talgs@ecu.edu</SPAN></B></A><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"></SPAN></P>
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