25.1592, Calls: Ling & Literature, Applied Ling, General Ling/Kuwait

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LINGUIST List: Vol-25-1592. Thu Apr 03 2014. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 25.1592, Calls: Ling & Literature, Applied Ling, General Ling/Kuwait

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Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 16:17:27
From: marta tryzna [tryzna.m at gust.edu.kw]
Subject: GUST English Language and Literature 2nd International Conference

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Full Title: GUST English Language and Literature 2nd International Conference 
Short Title: GELL 

Date: 21-Apr-2015 - 23-Apr-2015
Location: West Mishref, Kuwait 
Contact Person: Ikram ElSherif
Meeting Email: elsherif.i at gust.edu.kw
Web Site: https://gellconference.gust.edu.kw 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; General Linguistics; Ling & Literature 

Call Deadline: 30-Nov-2014 

Meeting Description:

Teaching is one of the most challenging professions because it brings
individuals of different backgrounds (teachers and learners) into a very close
relationship. The process of teaching/learning arguably constitutes the most
important aspect of this relationship, but it is intimately connected with
other complex personal, social, cultural, and even historical and political
factors. A teacher is not a neutral entity, nor does s/he teach in a social,
cultural, and historical vacuum. Similarly, the learner is not a tabula rasa,
subject to the teacher's inscriptions. Inevitably, the process of education
will elicit critical questions or even resistance. Teaching foreign languages
and literatures to non-native speakers may pose challenges for both teachers
and students. These challenges may be administrative, technical, pedagogical,
linguistic, social, cultural, political, or even a combination of all. This
conference aims at exploring these challenges in different teaching situations
and environments.

Call for Papers:

The GELL 2015 conference welcomes all language and literature professors and instructors to share their experiences, but wishes particularly to focus on teaching foreign languages and literatures in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Also, though professors and instructors of foreign languages and literatures other than English are welcome, the language of the presentations/articles must be English. 

Possible themes include, but are not limited to:

- The American-style university: the model of the future
- Varieties of the literary canon: what do we teach and why?
- The colonized teacher: how our students change us
- The Other in the classroom
- The goals of teaching literature: literacy, liberalism, global citizenship?
- Local culture and history as contexts
- Stereotypes, the Orientalist and Occidentalist
- Political correctness, cultural taboos and censorship
- Teacher expectations vs. student expectations
- Native language interference/transfer
- The cultural aspect of teaching language and literature
- Technology and language instruction
- What's lost or gained in translation
- Institutional policies and institutionalized restrictions
- Applying theory to the classroom

Proposals (consisting of a 300 word abstract and a 200 word biography) should be sent to the GELL organizing committee. Time allowance for each presentation is 20 minutes and an additional 15 minutes will be provided for discussions. 

Please send your literature/culture-related proposals to Dr. Ikram Elsherif: elsherif.i at gust.edu.kw.

Please send your linguistics/translation/language education proposals to Dr. Marta Tryzna: tryzna.m at gust.edu.kw.

Deadline for proposal submission: November 30, 2014
Notification of proposal acceptance: January 1, 2015

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