CFP: ECOLT

[Francis Hult]

Via ILR-INFO...
 
With the support of the Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL), Second Language Testing, Inc. (SLTI), Georgetown University, and the National Capital Language Resource Center (NCLRC), the East Coast Organization of Language Testers (ECOLT) will hold its tenth annual conference on October 28-29, 2011 in Washington, D.C.

Plenary Speaker Carol Chapelle, Iowa State University

For more information on the Call for Papers, see below or click on our website: http://www.cal.org/ecolt/papers.html

Meg Malone
Francesca Di Silvio
Tim Farnsworth

Receipt Deadline: Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Notification: July, 2011

We invite proposals from colleagues in academia and education, government, and for-profit and not-for-profit organizations. ECOLT encourages students, researchers, and teachers to present papers or posters on projects on validity: opportunities and challenges.

TYPES OF PRESENTATIONS:

PAPERS: (30 minutes)

This format is best suited for theory-oriented presentations, or the presentation of completed research. Presenters will have 20 minutes to discuss their paper, followed by 10 minutes for questions and comments from the audience.

POSTERS: (1 hour)

Poster sessions will provide an opportunity for the presentation of work in progress and research that is being planned, as well as for the presentation of test development projects, new tests, and technological innovations. Poster presenters will interact with interested participants at the location of the poster display for an hour.

PROPOSAL EVALUATION CRITERIA:

 1.  Contribution to the field
 2.  Quality of the research/study
 3.  Clarity of the abstract

FORMAT OF PROPOSALS:

Each submission should be on two pages.

Page One:

 1.  Contact information:
    *   Full name of principal presenter and full contact information (affiliation, postal address, telephone, fax, email) All return correspondence will be to this individual only.
    *   Full names, affiliations, addresses, and email addresses of co-presenter(s) if any
 2.  Type of presentation (Paper or Poster)
 3.  Title of presentation
 4.  AV equipment required: computers and projectors will be provided for all paper presentations. Display areas, tables, and poster boards (32x40 inch white boards with foam) will be provided for posters.
 5.  Abstract: Abstracts should be between 200 and 300 words, single-spaced. Abstracts should be clearly written and concisely address the following:
    *   Context of the issue(s) researched
    *   Purpose of the study
    *   Summary of the methodology or analytical procedures used
    *   Results/conclusions
    *   Implications/significance to the field of language testing

Page Two:

 1.  Type of presentation (Paper or Poster)
 2.  Title of presentation
 3.  Abstract (duplicated from Page One)

SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS:

The two-page submission should be sent as an email attachment to Tim Farnsworth<mailto:timothy.farnsworth at hunter.cuny.edu> at timothy.farnsworth at hunter.cuny.edu<mailto:timothy.farnsworth at hunter.cuny.edu> by June 15, 2011. The filename should read: ECOLT11ABS_YOURLASTNAME.




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