CFP: Conference on Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT 2009)

[Francis Hult]

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'


The first international TBLT conference was hosted in 2005 at the University of Leuven in Belgium and the second international conference on TBLT 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.

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

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.

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.

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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