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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="IS" style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><font face="Calibri">PRISEAL 4 2018</font></span></b></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><font face="Calibri">This is a reminder that the deadline for abstracts for the PRISEAL 4 conference at the University
of Iceland is January 15th, 2018. </font></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><font face="Calibri">The conference theme –
<i><span style="padding: 0cm; border: 1pt windowtext; border-image: none; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm;">Research and Practice: Moving Forward</span></i>– is designed to encourage contributions from the widest possible range of scholars and practitioners
involved in EAL/ERPP.</font></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><font face="Calibri">Conference dates: 14 – 16. September, 2018.</font></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><font face="Calibri">Submissions are open for 20-minute papers or colloquia with 3-6 papers in the form of 300-word abstracts
per presentation. For submission and registration information, please see the conference website:</font></span></p>
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<span lang="IS"><a href="http://vigdis.hi.is/priseal_2018"><span lang="EN-US" style="padding: 0cm; border: 1pt windowtext; border-image: none; color: rgb(10, 60, 102); text-decoration: none; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; text-underline: none;"><font face="Calibri">http://vigdis.hi.is/priseal_2018</font></span></a></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><font face="Calibri">Aiming at a better understanding of how research supports practice of users of English as an Additional
Language, we invite submissions from journal publishers, editors and reviewers; authors and translators; teachers, materials writers and course designers for English for Research Publication Purposes; and scholars within humanities and social science fields
including applied linguistics.</font></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><font face="Calibri">Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:</font></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">academic publishing issues (e.g. advantages and limitations of open-access vs. commercial publishers; predatory journals
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">the geopolitics of academic writing (e.g. dominance of English, English as a Lingua Franca)</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">academic ethics from a cross-cultural perspective (e.g. plagiarism and academic integrity)</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">the process of writing for publication</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">translation and editing in the academic context</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">assessing and teaching English for research and publication purposes</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">peer-review in intercultural and multilingual contexts</span><br>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="padding: 0cm; border: 1pt windowtext; border-image: none; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm;">Confirmed Plenary Speakers:</span></b><br>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Karen Englander, York University, Ontario.<br>
</span><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: SV;">Anne Kristina Hultgren, Open University.<br>
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Hafdís Ingvarsdóttir, University of Iceland.</span><br>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Invited colloquia hosted by:</span></b><br>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Margaret Cargill and Sally Burgess</span><br>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">MJ. Curry and Theresa Lillis</span><br>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Karen Englander, James Corcoran and Laura Muresan
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Kristina Hultgren and Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir</span></p>
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