25.2312, Calls: Applied Linguistics, Language Acquisition/Poland

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Subject: 25.2312, Calls: Applied Linguistics, Language Acquisition/Poland

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Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 20:22:18
From: Bartosz Wolski [bartwol at gmail.com]
Subject: Speaking in a Foreign Language: Enhancing the Quality of Classroom Interaction

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Full Title: Speaking in a Foreign Language: Enhancing the Quality of Classroom Interaction 

Date: 11-May-2015 - 13-May-2015
Location: Konin, Poland 
Contact Person: Miroslaw Pawlak
Meeting Email: speakingconference2015 at gmail.com
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/site/speakingkonin2015/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisition 

Call Deadline: 15-Mar-2015 

Meeting Description:

The conference will be devoted to various aspects of developing speaking
skills in the foreign language classroom, with a particular focus on
optimizing various facets of classroom interaction. It will be organized by
the Institute of Modern Languages, State School of Higher Professional
Education, Konin, Poland, and the Department of English Studies, Faculty of
Pedagogy and Fine Arts, Adam Mickiewicz University, Kalisz, Poland. The
languages of the conference will be English and Polish, with all the plenary
talks given in the former.


Call for Papers:

We welcome contributions related to the theme of the conference in the form of papers (20 minutes + 10 minutes for discussion), workshops (60 minutes) and posters which could, among other things, focus on the following areas: 
 
- Aspects of interaction in the foreign language classroom
- Psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic aspects of speech production
- The role of grammar and lexis in developing speaking skills
- The place of phonetics and phonology in developing speaking skills
- Pronunciation instruction in a second or foreign language
- The pragmatic dimension of developing speaking skills
- Techniques, methods and resources used in developing speaking skills
- Communication tasks and the development of speaking skills
- Using computer technology in learning and teaching speaking in a foreign language
- The role of communication strategies in speaking in a foreign language
- Learning strategies and the development of speaking skills
- The role of oral corrective feedback
- Assessing speaking skills in a foreign language
- Methodology of research on learning and teaching speaking in a foreign language

Abstracts of papers, workshops or posters in the range of 200-300 words should be submitted by email to speakingconference2015 at gmail.com by March 15, 2015. The proposals should include the title, name, affiliation, email address and a short biographical note, about 60-80 words in length. 

Notifications of acceptance will be sent by April 12, 2015.







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