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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">1st Conference on Applying (Putonghua/English) Language Arts<BR><?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:place w:st="on">Hong Kong</st1:place>, June 4-5 2011 </P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Call for Papers </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">The 1st Conference on Applying (Putonghua / English) Language Arts (APELA) invites papers exploring and rethinking these areas and relations, applications and interpretations in the contemporary context. We encourage papers adopting a variety of themes, perspectives, and approaches. We invite papers treating, but not limited to, the following topics: </P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">* contributions of linguistics to the study of literature, and of literature to the study of linguistics </P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">* language-arts-related academic and action research studies in areas such as literature, drama, popular culture, and the oral language arts </P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">* specific methods relating to the delivery of language arts in the English Medium of Instruction classroom </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">role-play, scenario and simulation in the classroom </P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">* literature and language-related subjects raised by the use of playable media and applications as teaching tools, including interactivity, immersivity, ludology and narrativity in games, MMORPGs, cyberdrama, telephony and other playable media </P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">* professional challenges and opportunities presented by the new Language Arts curricula and approaches </P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Presentation Arrangement <BR>Oral presentation: 20 minutes for each oral presentation, plus 10 minutes for Q&As<BR><BR>Conference Languages<BR>English and Putonghua (Mandarin)<BR><BR>Abstract Submission Deadline<BR>31 January 2011 (Notices of acceptance will be sent out by 28 February, 2011.)<BR><BR>Abstract Requirements</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Abstracts should be written either in English or in Chinese. </P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Each submission should be an abstract of two pages, excluding references. Template of the abstract can be downloaded from here: http://www.engl.polyu.edu.hk/apela2011/call4paper.html<SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Format: 1 inch margin using 12-point font, Times New Roman (English), 新細明體 (traditional Chinese), or SimSun (simplified Chinese). </P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Submission Requirements</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Submissions are limited to a maximum of one individual or one joint abstract per author. </P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Please send two SOFT copies as e-mail attachments to egapela@inet.polyu.edu.hk, one with the title of the paper, name(s) of the author(s) as well as affiliation(s), and the other without the author's information. Please name your file the same as the title of your paper. </P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Please list (1) title of the paper, (2) name(s) of the author(s), (3) affiliation(s), (4) mailing address(es) and (5) email address(es) in the e-mail. </P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Further Enquiries<BR>Dr Christina DeCoursey, Programme Leader, MA in English Language Arts (Email: egdecour@inet.polyu.edu.hk; Tel: (852) 2766-7352)</P></DIV></BODY></HTML>