26.5351, Calls: Applied Ling, Lang Acq, Ling & Lit/Tunisia

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Subject: 26.5351, Calls: Applied Ling, Lang Acq, Ling & Lit/Tunisia

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Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2015 15:52:36
From: Lamia Bach Baoueb [lamia_bachbaoueb at yahoo.fr]
Subject: ELT in the 21st Century: Global and Local Concerns

 
Full Title: ELT in the 21st Century: Global and Local Concerns 

Date: 12-Feb-2016 - 13-Feb-2016
Location: Tunis, Tunisia 
Contact Person: Lamia Bach Baoueb
Meeting Email: ttbigconf2016 at gmail.com
Web Site: http://www.tesol-tunisia.org 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Ling & Literature 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 27-Dec-2015 

Meeting Description:

With globalization, English has won the status of a Lingua Franca around the world and a de-facto second language in multilingual contexts. In Tunisia, it has been gaining more ground as a means of communication and has become an asset for employability both locally and internationally. This is bound to affect various facets of ELT: curriculum design, methodology, materials development, and the measurement of learning outcomes and program success. In addition to the need to balance local and global concerns, there is a growing awareness of the need to attend to cross-cultural and pragmatic dimensions and to the development of 21st century skills.

It is in this context that Tunisia TESOL will organize its third International Conference on ELT in the 21st Century: Global and Local Concerns. Proposals of papers and workshops can focus on, but are not restricted to, the following sub-themes:

- The roles of ELT teachers in the 21st century
- Enhancing learner autonomy
- Critical thinking skills and the learning of English
- Cultural values in local and global communication
- Learning technologies in ELT and 21st century skills
- Maintaining teacher and learner motivation
- Adapting contents, methods and approaches to local contexts
- Assessing English proficiency/achievement in the 21st century
- English varieties to teach and the myth and reality of the ''native speaker''
- Continuous professional development
- ELT and intercultural communication
- Materials development
- ELT program evaluation
- Experiential learning in modern language education



Call for Papers: 

Abstracts, not exceeding 100 words, should be addressed to: ttbigconf2016 at gmail.com, no later than December 27, 2015.




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