1st Call for Proposals: TBLT 2009 Conference (Lancaster, UK)

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TBLT 2009

3rd Biennial International Conference on Task-Based Language Teaching

*13-16 September, 2009*

Lancaster University, UK

http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/events/tblt2009/index.htm



*Theme: 'Tasks: context, purpose and use'**

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The first international TBLT conference <http://www.tblt.org/> was hosted in
2005 at the University of Leuven in Belgium and the second international
conference on TBLT <http://www.hawaii.edu/tblt2007/index.html> was hosted in
2007 at the University of Hawaii, Honolulu. As in the two previous
conferences, we look forward to bringing together researchers and educators
from around the world to share and learn from one another's innovations and
research in task-based language teaching.

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*CALL FOR PROPOSALS*

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Submissions are invited for individual papers, posters, and colloquia, by
the DEADLINE of 31 OCTOBER 2008.



Submissions should be sent to
tblt2009submissions at gmail.com<javascript:main.compose('new','t=tblt2009submissions at gmail.com')>
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Authors will be informed of the outcome of the reviewing process *by 31
January 2009**.*



PAPERS (30 mins)

Submissions should consist of a title, name(s) of author(s) and
affiliation(s), abstract of 300 words maximum, name and contact details of
lead author.



POSTER SUBMISSIONS

Submissions should consist of a title, name(s) of author(s) and
affiliation(s), abstract of 300 words maximum, name and contact details of
lead author.

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COLLOQUIA SUBMISSIONS (120 mins)

Submissions should consist of a colloquium title, name(s) of convenor(s) and
contact details, and names of participants and affiliations, a synoptic
colloquium abstract, abstracts for individual presentations, and a note on
presentation times.



*PLENARY SPEAKERS*



Geoff Brindley (Macquarie University, Australia)

Zoltán Dörnyei (University of Nottingham, UK)

Bernard Mohan (University of British Columbia, Canada)

Lourdes Ortega (University of Hawaii, USA)**



FEATURED COLLOQUIA



Sara Gysen (University of Leuven, Belgium)
Theme: Testing and transferability of test results


Folkert Kuiken & Ineke Vedder (University of Amsterdam)
Theme: Tasks across the modalities



Alison Mackey (Georgetown University, US)
Theme: Tasks and the interaction hypothesis



Virginia Samuda (Lancaster University, UK)
Theme: Teachers' uses of tasks in the classroom



The conference will be held in the university's well-equipped conference
suite. The nearby city of Lancaster has a distinguished historic castle and
boasts several jewels of Georgian architecture. It is within 30 minutes of
the Lake District, beloved of walkers, fell runners, rock climbers,
painters, poets and writers. The campus is also close to a spectacular
coastline stretching from Glasson Dock, a couple of miles away, through
Morecambe Bay to the coast of the Southern Lakes, and also lies within easy
reach of the Pennines and the Yorkshire Dales.
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