[EDLING:1927] CFP: Learners of Language, Language of Learners

[Francis M. Hult]

http://www.languageconf2007.org/submissions.php

Sabancý University, School of Languages
International Conference on Foreign Language Education,
Tuning in: Learners of language, language of learners
Sabancý University in Istanbul, Turkey 
May 24-26, 2007

Closing date for proposals: December 8, 2006 

As Sabanci University School of Languages, we would like to invite you to a 
collaborative exploration of the challenging and inspiring journey of learners 
in the field of foreign language education. 

Do we speak the same 'language' as our learners? How can we tune in more 
effectively to what learners have to say, what they believe they need and 
want, what processes they really learn by, what they believe we need to learn? 
What do we research? Do learners have a say? What do we do to find out about 
learners' voices? What do we actually find out about? What meaning do we read 
into what we learn? What do we do with what we then know? 

Our conference aims to create a forum to discuss such challenging questions 
with respect to research with learners; feedback from learners and learning 
from feedback; learner voices in curriculum development; learner views on 
assessment processes; learner dreams, nightmares, realities...; learner 
principles, practices and processes in language learning; teachers as learners 
of learners; and learning from 'success' and 'failure'.