27.4140, Calls: English, Applied Ling, Disc Analysis, Gen Ling, Lang Acq/Italy

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Subject: 27.4140, Calls: English, Applied Ling, Disc Analysis, Gen Ling, Lang Acq/Italy

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Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2016 21:45:34
From: Michael Ennis [mennis at unibz.it]
Subject: Symposium on Approaches to English for Specific and Academic Purposes

Full Title: Symposium on Approaches to English for Specific and Academic Purposes 

Date: 16-Dec-2016 - 16-Dec-2016
Location: Bozen-Bolzano, Italy 
Contact Person: Michael Ennis
Meeting Email: mennis at unibz.it

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; General Linguistics; Language Acquisition 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 22-Nov-2016 

Meeting Description:

Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy)

Although English for Specific Purposes (ESP) and English for Academic Purposes
(EAP) have long been subjects that have complemented higher education studies,
more recently they have become important subjects in their own right in
secondary and tertiary institutions across the world. This is mainly due to
the ever-growing importance of English as the global language of travel,
tourism, trade and technology, amongst others, but also due to its central
role in higher education teaching and research, especially in institutions
where English is increasingly being used as a medium of instruction (EMI).

The approaches to teaching and testing ESP and EAP have undergone many
transformations over the years, clearly influenced by the changing trends in
modern English Language Teaching, and this has led to ESP and EAP becoming to
a certain extent umbrella terms for a multitude of approaches and
methodologies. Moreover, the sheer variety of disciplines that ESP and EAP aim
to cover, from civil engineering to fashion design, through accounting and
medicine, amongst many others, has created a multitude of sub-sections of both
ESP and EAP.

This symposium aims to bring together teachers and researchers of English for
Specific Purposes and English for Academic Purposes from diverse contexts in
order to investigate and share various approaches that are currently being
applied in ESP and EAP.

Steering Committee: 

Jemma Prior (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano)
Letizia Cirillo (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano)
Michael Ennis (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano)

Call for Papers:

Presenters are invited to submit proposals for 20-minute talks on the
following themes:

- Discourse-based approaches to ESP/EAP
- Genre-based approaches to ESP/EAP
- Skills-based approaches to ESP/EAP
- Grammar-based approaches to ESP/EAP
- Lexical based approaches to ESP/EAP
- Discipline-based approaches to ESP/EAP

Presentations should have a clear theoretical basis but should also have a
practical focus where classroom-based research and/or practice is in evidence.

Please submit abstracts of about 200 words and a brief bio of about 50 words
to mennis at unibz.it by 22 November 2016.

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