21.2905, Calls: Applied Ling, Discipline of Ling, Lang Acq, English/Macau

[linguist at LINGUISTLIST.ORG]

LINGUIST List: Vol-21-2905. Wed Jul 14 2010. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 21.2905, Calls: Applied Ling, Discipline of Ling, Lang Acq, English/Macau

Moderators: Anthony Aristar, Eastern Michigan U <aristar at linguistlist.org>
            Helen Aristar-Dry, Eastern Michigan U <hdry at linguistlist.org>
 
Reviews: Monica Macaulay, U of Wisconsin-Madison  
Eric Raimy, U of Wisconsin-Madison  
Joseph Salmons, U of Wisconsin-Madison  
Anja Wanner, U of Wisconsin-Madison  
       <reviews at linguistlist.org> 

Homepage: http://linguistlist.org/

The LINGUIST List is funded by Eastern Michigan University, 
and donations from subscribers and publishers.

Editor for this issue: Di Wdzenczny <di at linguistlist.org>
================================================================  

LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature:  
Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility 
designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process 
abstracts online.  Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, 
and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, 
submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3!

===========================Directory==============================  

1)
Date: 13-Jul-2010
From: Andrew Moody < amoody at umac.mo >
Subject: 15th English in South East Asia Conference
 

	
-------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:33:22
From: Andrew Moody [amoody at umac.mo]
Subject: 15th English in South East Asia Conference

E-mail this message to a friend:
http://linguistlist.org/issues/emailmessage/verification.cfm?iss=21-2905.html&submissionid=2640954&topicid=3&msgnumber=1
  

Full Title: 15th English in South East Asia Conference 
Short Title: ESEA 2010 

Date: 09-Dec-2010 - 11-Dec-2010
Location: Taipa, Macau 
Contact Person: Andrew Moody
Meeting Email: esea2010 at umac.mo
Web Site: http://www.umac.mo/fsh/de/esea2010.htm 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Discipline of Linguistics; Language 
Acquisition 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 15-Sep-2010 

Meeting Description:

The ESEA organisation and annual conference is the result of a 
collaboration between the following member institutions:
Ateneo De Manila University (Philippines)
Curtin University (Australia)
Hong Kong Institute of Education (Hong Kong)
King Mongkut's University of Technology (Thailand)
National Institute of Education (Singapore)
Sanata Dharma University (Indonesia)
University of Brunei Darussalam (Brunei)
University of Macau (Macao)
University of Malaya (Malaysia)
University of Waikato (New Zealand)
Zhejiang University (China)

The annual ESEA conference celebrates the linguistic and creative diversity 
of English across the region of South East Asia and confronts challenges 
that are typically presented in the teaching of English. 

2nd Call For Papers

ESEA 2010

Dates: 9-11 December 2010
Location: University of Macau, Macao SAR
Contact Person: Andrew Moody
Contact Email: esea2010 at umac.mo
Web Site: http://www.umac.mo/fsh/de/esea2010.htm

The ESEA organisation and annual conference is the result of a 
collaboration between the following member institutions:
-Ateneo De Manila University (Philippines)
-Curtin University (Australia)
-Hong Kong Institute of Education (Hong Kong)
-King Mongkut's University of Technology (Thailand)
-National Institute of Education (Singapore)
-Sanata Dharma University (Indonesia)
-University of Brunei Darussalam (Brunei)
-University of Macau (Macao)
-University of Malaya (Malaysia)
-University of Waikato (New Zealand)
-Zhejiang University (China)
The annual ESEA conference celebrates the linguistic and creative diversity 
of English across the region of South East Asia and confronts challenges 
that are typically presented in the teaching of English.

The conference theme of 2010 is:

Our Diverse Communities

Like ESEA conferences in the past, the 2010 conference in Macau will 
provide a valuable forum for faculty and students engaging in research and 
teaching in English language and literature. Recognizing that South East 
Asia is a large and diverse region, the conference organizers welcome a 
variety of proposals related to research and teaching in linguistics, 
literature, cultural studies and language pedagogy. General areas of 
interest include:
 
-International and regional trends in research
-Important new findings
-Theoretical approaches
-Methodologies
-Professional concerns
-Discipline and interdisciplinarity
-Publication: careers, venues, evaluation
-Institutional expectations and fulfilment
-Service
-Technology and the profession
-Research tools
-Communications and networks
-Pedagogy
-Programs and curricula
-Forms of learning
-Technology and learning
-Creativity
-Creative writing and other industries in English
-English in the media

Plenary Speakers:

The ESEA 2010 Organising Committee has invited the following 
internationally recognised scholars and speakers to address the conference 
in plenary sessions:

Rod Ellis (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Rod Ellis is currently Professor in the Department of Applied Language 
Studies and Linguistics, University of Auckland, where he teaches 
postgraduate courses on second language acquisition, individual 
differences in language learning and task-based teaching. He is also a 
professor in the MA in TESOL program in Anaheim University and a visiting 
professor at Shanghai International Studies University (SISU) as part of 
China's Chang Jiang Scholars Program. His published work includes articles 
and books on second language acquisition, language teaching and teacher 
education. His books include Understanding Second Language Acquisition 
(BAAL Prize 1986), The Study of Second Language Acquisition (Duke of 
Edinburgh prize 1995), Task-Based Learning and Teaching (2003), 
Analyzing Learner Language (with Gary Barkhuizen) in (2005) and a 
second edition of The Study of Second Language Acquisition (2008), all 
published by Oxford University Press. He also co-authored Implicit and 
Explicit Knowledge in Language Learning, Testing and Teaching (2009) 
published by Multilingual Matters. In addition, he has published several 
English language textbooks, including Impact Grammar (Pearson: 
Longman). He is currently editor of the journal Language Teaching 
Research. In addition to his current position in New Zealand, he has worked 
in schools in Spain and Zambia and in universities in the United Kingdom, 
Japan and the United States.

Salikoko S. Mufwene (University of Chicago, USA)
Native of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Salikoko S. Mufwene is the 
Frank J. McLoraine Distinguished Service Professor of Linguistics and the 
College at the University of Chicago, where he also serves as Professor on 
the Committee on Evolutionary Biology and on the Committee on the 
Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science. He is also an affiliate of the 
Department of Comparative Human Development and of the Center for the 
Study of Race, Politics and Culture at the same university. His current 
research is on language evolution, including language birth and death, the 
indigenization of English and other colonial European languages worldwide, 
globalization and language vitality, and the phylogenetic evolution of 
language. Informed by several academic disciplines, his approach can be 
characterized as ecological, informed especially by population genetics and 
macroecology. (Co-)editor of several books, including Globalization and 
Language Vitality: Perspectives from Africa (Continuum, 2008), he is the 
author of The Ecology of Language Evolution (CUP, 2001), Créoles, 
Écologie Sociale, Évolution Linguistique (l'Harmattan, 2005), Language 
Evolution: Contact, Competition and Change (Continuum Press, 2008), and 
over some 200 essays on these topics and others. He is also the series 
editor of the Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact. For more on his 
work, please visit his website at 
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/faculty/mufwene/.

Zohreh T. Sullivan (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Zohreh T. Sullivan, Professor Emerita of English and Comparative Literature 
at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, was born in Iran, studied 
in Pakistan and the U.S., has taught at Webster College, St. Louis, Missouri, 
USA, at Damavand College, Tehran, Iran, and, since 1972, at the University 
of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, USA.  She has taught a wide range of 
courses that include modern British literature, the literatures of global 
cultures, and colonial and postcolonial literatures.  Her publications 
include Narratives of Empire: The Fictions of Rudyard Kipling (Cambridge, 
Cambridge UP: l993), the Norton Critical Edition of Rudyard Kipling's Kim 
(New York, Norton: 2002), Exiled Memories: Stories of Iranian Diaspora 
(Philadelphia, Temple UP: 2001) and numerous articles on pedagogy, 
critical theory, Iranian cinema, feminism and modernity in Iran, and global 
literatures. Her last book blends autobiography, oral history and analysis to 
frame the narratives of some forty Iranians, most of whom left Iran for the 
U.S. after the Islamic Revolution of l978-9.

The ESEA 2010 Organising Committee invites proposals for individual 
presentations (20 minutes + 10 minutes for discussion) or panel 
presentations (90-minute or 120-minute) on any area of research related to 
English in South East Asia.

Interested participants may submit an abstract proposal of a maximum of 
300 words for individual presentations or 1200 words for panel 
presentations. (Please note that word limits include title and references.)

Proposals may be submitted on-line at:
http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/esea2010 

The extended deadline for submissions is 15 September 2010.
Notification of acceptance will be sent via e-mail beginning 31 July 2010, 
and early notification is available upon request.

For further information regarding the conference (i.e. registration, 
accommodation, plenary speakers, Macau links) please visit the ESEA 2010 
Conference website: http://www.umac.mo/fsh/de/esea2010.htm





-----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-21-2905