[Corpora-List] 7th International Symposium on Teaching English at Tertiary Level (Nancy GUO)

[ISTETL Conf [ENGL]]

7th International Symposium on Teaching English at Tertiary Level

Hong Kong, 13 & 14 October 2011


Second Call for Papers

 

Keynote Speakers

 

Professor Alister Cumming

Professor and Director, Centre for Educational Research on Languages and
Literacies

Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto,
Canada

Executive Director, Language Learning: A Journal of Research in Language
Studies

 

 

Professor Christian MIM Matthiessen

Chair Professor and Head, Department of English

Associate Dean, Faculty of Humanities

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

 

 

Plenary Speakers

 

Professor He Lianzhen

Professor and Dean, School of International Studies, Zhejiang University

Deputy Director, National College English Teaching Advisory Committee of
China

 

 

Professor Jin Yan

Professor of Applied Linguistics, School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai
Jiao Tong University

Director, National College English Testing (CET) Committee of China

 

 

Professor Zou Shen

Professor of Applied Linguistics, Shanghai International Studies
University

Head, China National Advisory Committee of the Test for English Majors
(TEM)

Member, National Foreign Language Teaching Advisory Committee of China

 

 

Important Dates

Deadline for abstract submissions:     20 June 2011

Notice of acceptance:                        20 July 2011

Early bird registration:                         by 10 Sept 2011

Cancellation (50% refunds):               by 10 Sept 2011 (No refund
after 10 Sept 2011)

 

 

 

Theme Areas

The symposium organizing committee welcomes abstracts of paper
presentations addressing research and pedagogical issues at the tertiary
educational level in the following areas:

 

1.    Teaching and learning English as a second/foreign language

2.    Language testing and assessment

3.    Curriculum/syllabus/materials development

4.    Aligning assessment with curriculum

5.    English for academic/specific purposes

6.    English as a global lingua franca

7.    Language education and technology

8.    Corpus and discourse research in language education

9.    Multimodality in the learning and teaching of English

10.  Learner autonomy and learning strategies

11.  Longitudinal perspectives in the learning and teaching of English

12.  Learning English and learning disciplinary content through English

 

 

Abstract Submissions

All individual presentations will be 25 minutes in length, including 10
minutes’ question time.

Your abstract (in MS Word Version) should be a maximum of 250 words
(excluding references). Please also include in your abstract: (1) theme
area (state one of the above areas), (2) title of your paper, (3) your
name and title, (4) your affiliation, and (5) your e-mail address and
mailing address.  

 

Each participant can submit only one abstract as the lead author and one
abstract as a co-author. Lead authors must register by 10 September 2011
in order for the paper to be included in the conference programme.
Please send submissions to: egistetl at inet.polyu.edu.hk.

 

 

 

Registration

 

Early Bird (by 10 Sept 2011)
	

Amount (HK$)

Regular
	

  800

Student
	

  400

 

Late registration (from 11 Sept 2011)
	

 

Regular
	

1,000

Student
	

   500

 

 

Publication

All presented papers which are submitted by 31 Dec 2011 will be
peer-reviewed for consideration in the Proceedings of the 7th
International Symposium on Teaching English at Tertiary Level.

 

 

Conference Website

http://www.engl.polyu.edu.hk/events/7thISTETL.htm

 

 

Enquiries

egistetl at inet.polyu.edu.hk
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
WHERE INNOVATION MEETS APPLICATION

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