21.409, Calls: Applied Ling, Translation/Russia

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Subject: 21.409, Calls: Applied Ling, Translation/Russia

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Date: 24-Jan-2010
From: Anastasia Atabekova < atabekoff at gmail.com >
Subject: LSP and Translation Skills Training at Universities
 

	
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Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:49:45
From: Anastasia Atabekova [atabekoff at gmail.com]
Subject: LSP and Translation Skills Training at Universities

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Full Title: LSP and Translation Skills Training at  Universities 
Short Title: LSP & TS 

Date: 23-Mar-2010 - 24-Mar-2010
Location: Moscow, Russia 
Contact Person: Anastasia Atabekova
Meeting Email: atabekoff at gmail.com
Web Site: http://fld-rudn.com/inf%20konf%20eng.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Translation 

Call Deadline: 20-Feb-2010 

Meeting Description:

Dear Colleagues, 

The Organizing Committee of the Annual International Conference on LSP 
Teaching and Specialized Translation Skills Training in Higher Education 
Institutions (LSP & TS) is pleased and honored   to invite you to take part in
the Conference to be held  at Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, 
Moscow, on March 23-24, 2010.

Ways to participate 
- on-line session, 
- on-site participation, 
- publication of  abstract/ article in the conference proceedings book (with
ISBN, free of charge, with further sending through our university mail  service ) 

Call for Papers

Conference Focus 
The Annual International Conference on Foreign Language Teaching and 
Translation Skills Training in Higher Education Institutions will bring together
teachers, researchers and professionals from all over the world to exchange,
discuss and develop their ideas on the general topic of foreign language
teaching and learning in a multicultural world. The conference program will
offer many opportunities for contact between various professionals, specialists
and practitioners. The event will consist in a two-day program with a large
number of papers, workshops and panel discussions on a wide range of FLT-related
subjects.

Papers are welcome on the following topic areas: 
- Teacher training and teacher development 
- Cultural studies and foreign language teaching 
- Corpora and foreign language teaching
- Discourse studies and foreign language teaching
- Teaching and Learning technologies, approaches and methods
- Testing, evaluation and assessment 
- Language for Specific Purposes (LSP) teaching and learning  
- Translation and foreign language teaching 
- Specialized Translation: theory and practice 

Seminars and round tables are supposed to be organized on the following topics:
- IT in training translation skills
- Teaching Legal Language (English, French, German and other languages) as a
foreign language for lawyers-to-be and translators-to-be: challenges and
peculiarities, solutions  and innovations.
- Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language at Universities
- Teaching German as a Foreign Language at Universities
- Teaching French as a Foreign Language at Universities

Any other topic which could be of interest in the field of language teaching and
learning 

Submissions 
The deadline for proposals is February, 20, 2010. 
The papers should not exceed 8000 units (4 pages A4 format, Times New 
Roman, 14)
The allowed languages are English, French, Spanish, German. 
Electronic Submissions should be sent in MS Word or RTF format to 
atabekoff at gmail.com

The conference is sponsored by the Department of Foreign Languages of the
Faculty of Law of the University. The participation is free as the conference is
held under the auspices of the program of the University's 50th anniversary
celebration.

Visa support
If your paper is accepted you will be informed about this until February 21st 
The Organizing Committee is ready to arrange an official invitation for you to 
the conference through the Federal Migration Service of the Russian Federation.

The scanned documents (passport and application for visitors form are to be 
submitted 30 days prior to the person's entry in the country).
For more information visit our site www.fld-rudn.com and the page in English
about the coming conference
http://fld-rudn.com/inf%20konf%20eng.html





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