21.5138, Confs: Applied Linguistics/United Kingdom

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Date: 16-Dec-2010
From: Sue Garton [s.garton at aston.ac.uk]
Subject: Theorising Practice and Practising Theory
 

	
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Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 13:39:50
From: Sue Garton [s.garton at aston.ac.uk]
Subject: Theorising Practice and Practising Theory

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Theorising Practice and Practising Theory: 
Short Title: BAAL LLT SIG 

Date: 07-Jul-2011 - 08-Jul-2011 
Location: Birmingham, United Kingdom 
Contact: Sue Garton 
Contact Email: lss_baal at aston.ac.uk 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

The 7th BAAL Learning and Teaching SIG conference, entitled, 'Theorising
practice and practising theory: developing local pedagogies in language
teaching.'  Particular consideration will be given to papers that explore 
questions such as:

'How do local contexts affect language teaching pedagogies?'
'What affordances do bilingual teachers bring to the language classroom?'
'What does the development of lingua francas mean for language learning 
and teaching?'
'How can theory be developed from contextual practice?'
'How can practitioners contribute to local research and theorist/researchers
contribute to local practice?'

Submissions are encouraged from researchers in all areas of language 
teaching, including, but by no means restricted to, English language 
teaching. Research students investigating areas relevant to the conference 
theme are warmly welcomed to contribute to the conference. 

Plenary speakers for the conference are Professor B. Kumaravadivelu (San 
José State University, USA), Professor Juliane House (Hamburg University, 
Germany) and Dr Julian Edge (University of Manchester).  

Papers will be 20 minutes long with 10 minutes for questions.  Dedicated 
space and time will be given to poster presentations.  Abstracts (up to 300 
words) should be submitted by email attachment (Word files) to 
lss_baal at aston.ac.uk. 
Queries about the conference should also be sent to this email address.  

Please follow these procedures for your submission:
1. Submit two files, one containing title (up to 10 words) abstract and details
of the author(s) (name(s), affiliation, mailing address and email address) 
and one containing title and an anonymous abstract. Files must be sent 
using the following format: first initial_last name_abstract 1 and  first 
initial_lastname_abstract 2 
2. Also provide a short abstract of no more than 50 words for use in 
conference program 
3. Under the title in each full abstract, please give four keywords which
summarise the paper/poster.  
4. Please specify under the abstract whether you wish to present a paper or 
a poster.  

The deadline for submissions is Friday February 18th, 2011. 
Registration opens on Monday 7th March 2011.
Conference fees are:  £120 members, £150 non-members, £90 students

Dr Sue Garton
Director of Postgraduate Programmes in English
School of Languages & Social Sciences
Aston University
Aston Triangle
Birmingham
B4 7ET
 
Tel: 0121 204 3806
Fax: 0121 204 3766





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