31.925, Calls: English; Applied Ling, Lang Acquisition/India

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LINGUIST List: Vol-31-925. Fri Mar 06 2020. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 31.925, Calls: English; Applied Ling, Lang Acquisition/India

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Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2020 10:29:44
From: Manish Kumar [manish.iah at gla.ac.in]
Subject: 15th International & 51st Annual Conference of ELT at I-2020

Full Title: 15th International & 51st Annual Conference of ELT at I-2020 

Date: 02-Jul-2020 - 04-Jul-2020
Location: Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, India 
Contact Person: Manish Kumar
Meeting Email: eltaiconf2020 at gmail.com
Web Site: https://eltaiconf2020.wordpress.com 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisition 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 25-Apr-2020 

Meeting Description:

Theme: Turning ‘Right to English’ into Reality: Need for a Paradigm Shift in
the Global Context.
Students in the Indian education system are taught English through their first
language in most cases. An Indian classroom in English is a mixed classroom.
Other than in some elite institutions, a typical classroom in any country
using English as its second or foreign language has students from diverse
backgrounds and disciplines. India has two million students in English
classrooms who do not speak English at home, including the first-generation
learners. This conference would contemplate on many questions and aspects of
ELT in non-native contexts:
1. How can we ensure that these students learn English along with others, as
quickly as others and as happily as others?
2. What method and material should a teacher use in the classroom?
3. Do we need to write more interesting textbooks?
4. Should the vast treasure of material on YouTube remain unwelcome in a
classroom?
5. What about films, audio and video clips?
6. Are our teachers trained and oriented to use these available resources and
help their students achieve the desired goals?
7. Should India continue to have a kind of teacher education which takes two
years and a lot of money to produce less than ten per cent of the annual
requirement of trained teachers?
8. Is it all right to use mobile phones in the classrooms?

A lot of questions of this kind must be addressed to make teaching and
learning English successful and pleasant.

Call for Papers: 

The ElTAI conference 2020 invites papers addressing problems and prospects of
English language teaching in non-native contexts. The participants are
requested to submit an anonymous abstract of no more than 250 words on any of
the themes mentioned below. A separate file with details of author and title
may be sent as another attachment. Authors must not submit more than one
individual or one co-authored abstract. 

The abstracts can be submitted to eltaiconf2020 at gmail.com with a copy to
eltai_india at yahoo.co.in

Sub-Themes:
1. Language Teaching Policy and its Implementation
2. Changing and Emerging Goals of Teaching and Learning English
3. Integrating Thinking Skill in ELT
4. English for General, Academic and Specific Purposes
5. Teaching English in the 21st Century: Approaches and Methods
6. Integrating Technology in English Language Teaching and Learning
7. English Course books, Workbooks and Supplementary Materials
8. Developing Indigenous ELT materials
9. Teacher Training, Teacher Education and Teacher Development: Relevance and
Usefulness
10. Alternative Modes of Assessment and Testing in ELT
11. Teaching English to differently-abled Learners
12. Research in Language & Language Education: New Models and Methods
13. ‘Global’ or ‘Local’ English for the Learners?
14. English vis-à-vis First languages in India
15. Indian Writings in English

The abstracts will be selected through double blind peer review. They will be
considered for oral or poster presentation depending upon the compatibility of
their nature & scope in the current theme. 

BEST PAPER/POSTER PRESENTATION AWARD will be decided by the conference chairs.

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