Call for papers: English Applied Linguistics Seminar

[Reyes Gomez Moron]

CALL FOR PAPERS
6th ENGLISH APPLIED LINGUISTIC SEMINAR
THE DEVELOPMENT OF COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
University of Seville, Spain  (May 16-18, 2001)

The research group La lengua inglesa en el ámbito universitario of the
Department of English Philology at the University of
Seville (Spain) is organizing the 6th Seminar (IV ELIA) to be held in
May 16-18, 2001. V ELIA ('Pragmatics: Theory and
Practice') took place in Seville on April 1999 with the participation as
plenary speakers of Prof. Deirdre Wilson (UCL) and
Prof. Jenny Thomas (University of Wales at Bangor), an an attendance of
over 40 researchers from areas such as Pragmatics,
Discourse Analysis, Language Learning & Acquisition, Phonetics and
translation.

The topic of this year's seminar will be 'The development of
communicative competence: past, present and future'. The
presence of the following Keynote speakers has already been confirmed:
Prof. Enrique Alcaraz (University of Alicante, Spain)
Prof. Guy Cook (University of Reading, UK)
Prof. Gabriele Kasoer (Univeristy of Hawaii, USA)

SUBMISSIONS: We invite submissions related but not limited to the
following topics: Second Language Learning, Acquisiton,
teaching; Pragmatics & Discourse Analysis; Phonetics, and Translation.
Three kinds of submissions are proposed: papers (45
or 60 minutes, the last ten minutes will be devoted to discussion) and
workshops (60 minutes). Participants should submit
one-page abstract (500 words, Times 12) and a step-by-step outline of
the presentation. The abstract should be accompanied
by a cover letter stating name, address, affiliation, email address,
phone and fax numbers. Electronic submissions (RTF,
ASCII, HTML) are highly encouraged and may sent to one of the
organizers; if you do not have email access you can send 2
printed copies of your abstract and outline to the address below.

DATES: The deadeline for the submission of abstracts and outlines to be
considered for acceptance is FEBRUARY 28, 2001.
Contributors will be notified of the refereeing committee's decision by
MARCH 31. Selected contributions will be published in
the 4th issue of the series ELIA.

FEES:
-Students or unemployed: 3.500 ptas (approx. Euro 21)
-Other attendants: 7.000 ptas (approx. Euro 42) until April 16, 2001 &
9.000 ptas (approx. Euro 54) from April 16, 2001
onwards.
-Speakers: 10.000 ptas (approx. Euro 60) until April 16, 2001 & 12.000
ptas (approx. Euro 72) from April 16,2001
onwards.

The registration fee should be deposited in the account
2071.0904.34.0107295038 (Caja San Fernando de Sevilla). Please
specify VI ELIA in the form and send copy of the payment together with
the application form to:
Dr. Pilar Garcés Conejos
ELIA VI
Departamento de Filología Inglesa (Lengua Inglesa)
Facultad de Filología
C/ Palos de la Frontera s/n
41004 - Seville (Spain)

Proposals and questions should be addressed to:
Dr.Pilar Garcés Conejos        e-mail: pilar_garces at yahoo.com
Dr. Reyes Gómez Morón       e-mail: rgommor at dhuma.upo.es

Thank you for your attention