21.2168, FYI: FLIT Conference: Call for Workshop Proposals

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Date: 03-May-2010
From: Jack Burston < jburston at ucy.ac.cy >
Subject: FLIT Conference: Call for Workshop Proposals
 

	
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Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 12:59:09
From: Jack Burston [jburston at ucy.ac.cy]
Subject: FLIT Conference: Call for Workshop Proposals

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Foreign Language Instructional Technology: Theory and Practice
University of Cyprus
December 3-5, 2010

Location: Nicosia, Cyprus
Contact: Jack Burston
Contact Email: jburston at ucy.ac.cy
Conference website: http://lclinux.ucy.ac.cy/Flit/index.htm

Call for Workshop Proposals

The Language Centre of the University of Cyprus is pleased to 
announce its international conference Foreign Language Instructional 
Technology: Theory and Practice. The conference is being organized 
in collaboration with the language departments of the School of 
Humanities and Department of Education as well as the Language 
Centre of the Cyprus University of Technology and the Cyprus Ministry 
of Education and Culture. The conference will focus on the role of 
instructional technology in fostering independent language learning. It 
will be held at the University of Cyprus, Nicosia, December 3-5, 2010, 
and will include one day of hands-on workshops followed by two days 
of conference presentations.  

The conference seeks to address, on the one hand, the contributions 
of Second Language Acquisition research to instructional technology 
applications and, on the other, the implications of practical applications 
to learning theory. It is intended for those working in the field of Second 
Language Acquisition, foreign language pedagogy and Computer-
Aided Language Learning as well as practicing and pre-service 
language teachers at the secondary and tertiary levels. 

Proposals for workshops (90 minutes/3 hours) are invited in any of the 
following conference topic areas:
- Social networking
- Computer-mediated Communication
- Distance and blended learning
- Self-access learning
- Task and project based learning
- Mobile learning
- Networked learning in adult education/professional development
- Building Language Learning Communities
- Innovative e-learning technologies
- Multimodality and language learning 
- Individualization/differentiation in the language classroom 
- Computer-adaptive testing

Proposals for workshops, to be conducted in English, should be 
submitted online at the FLIT conference website 
(http://lclinux.ucy.ac.cy/Flit/index.htm) no later than July 12, 2010. They 
should be between 250-300 words and accompanied by a brief 
biographical statement (75-100 words) of the person making the 
proposal. 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Language Acquisition





 




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