26.1528, Calls: General Linguistics/USA

Fri Mar 20 18:15:26 UTC 2015

LINGUIST List: Vol-26-1528. Fri Mar 20 2015. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 26.1528, Calls: General Linguistics/USA

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Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 14:15:14
From: Renka Ohta [educ-MwALT at uiowa.edu]
Subject: Midwest Association of Language Testers

Full Title: Midwest Association of Language Testers 
Short Title: MwALT 

Date: 03-Oct-2015 - 03-Oct-2015
Location: Iowa City, IA, USA 
Contact Person: Renka Ohta
Meeting Email: educ-MwALT at uiowa.edu
Web Site: http://www.education.uiowa.edu/teach/foreign-esl/mwalt-2015 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-Jun-2015 

Meeting Description:

The University of Iowa hosts the 17th annual Midwest Association of Language
Testers Conference. The conference will be held October 3, 2015 in Iowa City,
Iowa on the University of Iowa campus. The conference theme is ''Writing
Assessments and Assessing Writing: Research and Practice.''

Call for Papers:

While the plenaries and panels will be focused on writing assessment, papers and posters on a variety of topics are encouraged. All submissions should be on topics related to language assessment. 

There are two types of presentation options: 

1) Paper: Presentations on theoretically-oriented papers or completed research are best suited for this type. The presentations should be 20 minutes in length followed by 10 minutes for a Q&A session and comments from the audience. 

2) Poster: Poster presenters will host their posters and discuss their research with conference participants. Posters may include work-in-progress research.

Submission Deadline: Monday June 15, 2015. Notification of acceptance and non-acceptance will be sent by Friday July 31, 2015. 

Submission Guidelines:

1) Abstracts should be no longer than 250 words for papers or posters 
2) The presentation title should be included
3) The type of presentation (paper or poster) should be clearly stated. Please do not combine multiple abstracts in one proposal
4) Presenter information should include:
a. Name(s) of author(s) in the order you would like them to appear in the conference program
b. Author or authors’ institutional affiliation
c. Author or authors’ email address

For abstract submission, visit http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/mwalt2015

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