25.4769, Calls: Applied Ling, Lang Acquisition, Psycholing, Socioling, Translation/UK

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LINGUIST List: Vol-25-4769. Wed Nov 26 2014. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 25.4769, Calls: Applied Ling, Lang Acquisition, Psycholing, Socioling, Translation/UK

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Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 23:49:35
From: Angela Batty [A.J.Batty at leedsbeckett.ac.uk]
Subject: 2nd Languages in the Globalised World (LGW) Conference

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Full Title: 2nd Languages in the Globalised World (LGW) Conference 
Short Title: LGW 

Date: 27-May-2015 - 28-May-2015
Location: Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Angela Batty
Meeting Email: LGW at leedsbeckett.ac.uk
Web Site: http://www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/languagesglobalisedworld 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Psycholinguistics; Sociolinguistics; Translation 

Call Deadline: 01-Mar-2015 

Meeting Description:

This conference aims to provide a forum for teachers and researchers who are interested in the exploration and exchange of research findings, experience and perspectives in language teaching, language learning and language skills development. The conference will be an international platform for the discussion of multilingual literacy and multicultural competence in a globalised world.

Plenary Speakers:
Prof. Romuald Gozdawa-Gołębiowski, (University of Warsaw), Poland
Prof. Àngel Huguet-Canalís (Universitat de Lleida), Spain
Prof. Jason Rothman (University of Reading), UK
Prof. Ivo Vasiljev (Prague Linguistic Circle), Czech Republic

Call for Papers:

The conference will consist of plenary sessions run by eminent guest speakers of a professorial rank, and paper presentations of 20 minutes or posters, which have been divided into six thematic areas. We welcome abstracts of articles studying any language, spoken in any country in the world, including minority and endangered languages.  

Papers of 20-minute duration and posters are mainly invited in relation to the following non-exhaustive thematic strands:

1. Bilingual and multilingual education policies and practices; endangered and minority languages in a globalised world

2. Computational and corpus linguistics; technology, multimedia and resources for language learning and teaching

3. Institution-wide Language Programme (IWLP) provisions

4. Pedagogic, discourse, linguistic, psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic approaches to text-based research

5. The world Englishes and the pedagogic implications for English Language Teaching

6. Translation and interpreting in the digital age of the globalised world

Abstract guidelines are available on the LGW website. Proposals should be submitted to: LGW at leedsbeckett.ac.uk.  The deadline for abstract submission is 1 March 2015, with final decisions on acceptance being made by 15 April 2015.

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