Call for papers for CDLC's 8th conference "Learning and Teaching towards Distinguished Levels of Language Proficiency"

[Dina Kupchanka]

Dear Friends, 

	The Coalition of Distinguished Language Centers, the only international organization 
dedicated to research and application of research in the area of teaching and achieving 
native-like foreign-language proficiency, will be holding its 8th annual symposium at the 
Westin Baltimore-Washington Airport in Linthicum, Maryland, December 3-4, 2010.

	Professors, researchers, administrators, and others with experience in teaching 
language, culture, literature, history in any foreign language to non-native students, in 
translation/interpretation, or in assessment at distinguished levels of proficiency are 
invited to submit a one-page abstract (exclusive of bibliography) on any aspect of 
language study at the distinguished level. 

        There will be several areas of focus: teaching methods and practices, language 
learning experiences, research, translation/interpretation, program 
development/management, and assessment (proficiency, diagnostic, dynamic, other). 
Whole panels may be suggested and abstracts submitted together, if desired. The working 
language of the conference will be English. However, presentations may be in any 
language, as long as there are enough presentations in that language to form a panel. 

        Abstracts should be written in the language in which they will be presented and 
should be sent to the CDLC Operations Director, Boris Shekhtman, via email 
(sb at mysltc.com) or to Dina Kupchanka (dina_kupchanka at hotmail.com) no later than 
October 1, 2010.

	Abstracts will be peer-reviewed. Notification of acceptance (or rejection) of 
proposals will be made before October 15. Following the conference, presentations will be 
published in a Proceedings volume.

         Updated information about the conference will be posted on the CDLC website 
through the opening of the conference: www.distinguishedlanguagecenters.org. 

         We are looking forward to your submissions and to seeing you at the conference in 
December!

Dina Kupchanka
Program Coordinator, CDLC

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