26.1523, Calls: English, Applied Linguistics/Tunisia

Fri Mar 20 05:50:50 UTC 2015

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Subject: 26.1523, Calls: English, Applied Linguistics/Tunisia

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Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 01:49:51
From: Salwa Abid [salwamabidtate at yahoo.com]
Subject: Symposium on Teaching English for Employability: Adapting ELT to the Needs of the Job Market

Full Title: Symposium on Teaching English for Employability: Adapting ELT to the Needs of the Job Market 
Short Title: TATE SYMPOSIUM 

Date: 01-May-2015 - 03-May-2015
Location: Sousse, Tunisia 
Contact Person: Dr. Salwa Abid
Meeting Email: salwamabidtate at yahoo.com

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 28-Mar-2015 

Meeting Description:

TATE announces its annual symposium to be held in l’ orient Palace in Sousse, Tunisia on May 1-3, 2015. The theme to be debated is: Teaching English For Employability: Adapting ELT to the needs of the job market.

There is a growing interest in bridging the gap between the skills being developed in schools and universities and those required by the job market. TATE symposium aims at exploring the English skills necessary for employment and discussing key issues around integrating the 21st century life skills in the English curricula.

The symposium will be an opportunity for ELT practitioners and researchers and business Professionals to discuss the importance of English as a tool that develops students’ personal and professional skills preparing them for the employment market, and the issues of testing and certification and their impact on employability for language learners.

The symposium also aims at bringing together teachers, researchers, entrepreneurs and representatives from the professional world and from the civil society to discuss the relationship between English language teaching and learning and the market and how English language constitutes a tool of empowerment for employability.

Participants in the symposium are invited to submit their proposals to be evaluated by the steering committee on the basis of their relevance to the conference theme.

Call for Papers:

Abstracts should be 150 words. Abstracts must be in English and cannot exceed one page. Use a 12-point Times New Roman and leave 1-inch (2.5-cm) margins left, right, top, and bottom. Center the title (maximum 12 words, all-caps, bold type) at the top of the page.

Candidates must submit their abstract to TATE.TUNISIA at yahoo.com, and presenters must send a copy to salwamabidtate at yahoo.com.

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