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'

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.

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, USA)
Theme: Tasks and the interaction hypothesis

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

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

We invite submissions for papers, colloquia, workshops and posters related
to the conference theme in areas such as the following:
· Curriculum, syllabus and course design
· Evaluation, assessment, and testing
· Information technologies
· Language corpora
· Language learning and language use
· Pedagogy
· Professional needs
· Research paradigms
· Socio-contextual factors
· Teacher development
· The learner
Deadline for submissions: 31 OCTOBER 2008
Authors will be informed of the outcome of the reviewing process by 31
January 2009.

PAPERS
30 minutes (20 minutes for presentation; 10 minutes for discussion)

POSTER SUBMISSIONS
Intended as a format for reports on work in progress. Poster presentation
sessions with authors on hand to answer questions will be scheduled in due
course.

THEMATIC COLLOQUIA
Collections of papers focusing on a shared topic of interest (Note: 120
minutes!)

WORKSHOPS
A forum for hands-on trialling of procedures for task design or data
analysis (either 65 or 100 minutes)

Please see our website for complete proposal submission instructions and
additional updates:  http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/events/tblt2009/index.htm

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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