29.3572, Calls: Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics/USA

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Subject: 29.3572, Calls: Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics/USA

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Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2018 00:53:13
From: Wei-Li Hsu [wh20 at rice.edu]
Subject: 4th Annual Center for Languages and Intercultural Communication Conference

 
Full Title: 4th Annual Center for Languages and Intercultural Communication Conference 
Short Title: 4th Annual CLIC Conference 

Date: 12-Apr-2019 - 14-Apr-2019
Location: Houston, Texas, USA 
Contact Person: Heather Lazare
Meeting Email: clic-conferences at rice.edu
Web Site: http://beyondvalidity.rice.edu/call-for-papers/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Dec-2018 

Meeting Description:

The 4th Annual CLIC Conference focuses on the analysis of the social and
ethical consequences of assessment practices in second language education,
ranging from macro-level perspectives, such as language ideology, to
micro-level perspectives, such as classroom interaction.


Call for Papers:

Second language tests are often designed with the expressed purpose of
eliminating the influence of contextual factors to generalize findings of
test-takers beyond the specificity of the testing situation. By limiting the
effect of contextual factors, however, we may create mismatches between test
outcomes and actual language use and between test purposes and test uses. More
specifically, many scholars (Fulcher, 2004; Hill & McNamara, 2011; Kunnan,
2004; McNamara & Ryan, 2011; Shohamy, 2001) have proposed to purposefully
include the role of context in tests to examine the social and ethical
consequences of assessment.

Proposals are invited to address work on language assessment in the following
broad thematic divisions:

a) Theoretical frameworks for assessing social and ethical consequences of
assessment;
b) Advantages and limitations of incorporating various layers of social
context into the theoretical construct of L2 ability;
c) Social and ethical issues when tests use decontextualized language data,
with limited regard to the actual language use by the target language
communities;
d) Practical adaptations required to make general assessment frameworks (e.g.,
ACTFL, CEFR, TOEFL, Cambridge exams) viable for the evaluation of language
ability at the local level;
e) Political connotations of the specific tests based on contextualized views
of L2 competence.

Invited Speakers:
Professor Glenn Fulcher (University of Leicester, UK)
Professor Elana Shohamy (Tel Aviv University, Israel)

Types of Presentations:

Papers: (30 minutes)
This format is best for completed theory-oriented research. Speakers will have
20 minutes to present their papers, followed by 10 minutes for questions and
comments from the audience.

Posters: (1 hour)
Poster sessions will provide an opportunity for researchers to interact with
interested participants during the hour-long poster session.

Submission of Abstracts:

Your submission should be sent to clic-conferences at rice.edu as an email
attachment to by December 1, 2018. 
Abstracts should be no longer than 500 words, double-spaced. They should be
clearly written and concisely address the following:

Context of the issues(s) researched or discussed
Purpose of the study, theoretical discussion, or development project
Summary of the approach, methodology, or analytical procedures used
Results, outcomes, or conclusions
Implications and/or significance to the field of language testing

Proposal Evaluation Criteria:

Clarity of the abstract
Quality of the research study
Contribution to the field

Awards for Best Presentations by Graduate Students: $500 for each of the two
awardees to the graduate students who give the best presentations at the
conference.

For more information, please visit the conference website:
http://beyondvalidity.rice.edu/




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