[Corpora-List] CfP: The Eighth International Conference of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF8)

[Xu Jiajin]

(Apologies for cross-posting.)

The Eighth International Conference of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF8):
Conceptualization and Pedagogical Solutions

Call for papers

The Organising Committee of ELF8, to be held in Beijing between 25 and 27
August 2015, invites proposals for presentations in any ELF related areas
including but not limited to:

- Conceptualising ELF
- Describing ELF
- Approaches and Methodologies of ELF
- ELF: Attitudes, Identity and Voices
- ELF, Culture and Society
- ELF and Language Policy
- ELF and Language Education
- ELF and Translation/Interpreting
- ELF in Different Contexts

Keynote speakers
- Jennifer Jenkins (University of Southampton)
- Anna Mauranen (University of Helsinki)
- Wei Li (University of London)
- Qiufang Wen (Beijing Foreign Studies University)

Types of presentations
Proposals are invited for paper presentations and poster presentations.

The paper presentation discusses and describes the presenter’s complete or
on-going work in relation to theory, empirical research or practice. Each
presentation will be given 15 minutes duration plus 10 minutes for
questions.

The poster presentation enables presenters to post their ideas/thoughts/
materials/data on a notice board and answer queries/ respond to comments
from interested conference participants. Poster sessions will be scheduled
as part of the conference programme. Specific guidelines for poster
presentations will be sent together with the acceptance notice.

Your abstracts must be submitted online at: http://elf.celea.org.cn/2015

Please provide a title and an abstract of no more than 250 words to
indicate the central issues that you wish to address. You can choose either
paper presentation or poster presentation.

New abstract submission closes on March 31, 2015. Confirmation of receipt
of your submission will be sent automatically and notification of
acceptance will be sent by the end of April 2015.

Please visit the ELF8 conference website http://elf.celea.org.cn/2015 for
further information or direct any enquiry to the conference e-mail address:
elf8 at fltrp.com .

We are looking forward to seeing you in Beijing.

The ELF8 organising committee

*****
Jiajin XU
Ph.D., Professor
National Research Centre for Foreign Language Education
Beijing Foreign Studies University
Beijing 100089
China
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