CFP

[Alfia Rakova]

Dear colleagues,

We are organizing a panel for the 2013 Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA.org) conference in the Pedagogy Section. The panel is entitled “The Role of Audio-Visual Aids in Foreign Language Instruction.”
The conference will take place in Boston, March 21-24, 2013. Please find the call for papers (with instructions for submission) below. The deadline for submitting an abstract is September 30, 2012. 
Any questions, comments, etc. are welcome and may be addressed directly to us:
alfia.rakova at dartmouth.edu 
rpasqui at sas.upenn.edu 

Please circulate this call for papers. 

Call for Papers for the 2013 Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
March 21-24, 2013 (Hyatt Regency) - Boston, Massachusetts Deadline:  September 30, 2012.
Please include with your abstract: Name and Affiliation; Email address; Postal address; Telephone number; A/V requirements.
The complete Call for Papers for the 2013 Convention has been posted in www.nemla.org.  
Interested participants may submit abstracts to more than one NeMLA panel; however panelists can only present one paper.  Convention participants may present a paper at a panel or seminar and also present at a creative session or participate in a roundtable.

CFP: The Role of Audio-Visual Aids in Foreign Language Instruction
In recent decades, videos have played an important role in Foreign Language Instruction and considerable confidence has been placed in the value of audio-visual aids to enhance the learning of foreign languages. Yet there is little empirical data and research to support the proposition that video facilitates in the learning of foreign languages. This panel has the main objective of reviewing the results of recent researchers about how audio-visual aids enhance the language-learning process and to what extent introducing audio-visual materials in Foreign Language Instruction can influence students’ acquisition.
On the other hand, the fast- changing technology has made many user-friendly tools available to teachers who want to retrieve materials and use digital videos in their Foreign Language courses (either inside or outside class): from YouTube to ITunes, from PowerPoint to more sophisticated programs, there is a wide range of possibilities that let instructors optimize strategies and activities while using audio-visual materials in their courses. What is the added value of these tools? How can they be exploited in order to enhance language acquisition?
Papers for consideration may include, but are not limited to, the following topics: 
1)	new experimental studies about the impact of audio-visual materials on language learning; 
2)	videos and technology in and outside the FL classroom; 
3)	reports on specific projects integrating films, shorts, clips, commercials etc. in basic language courses or in advanced content courses; 
4)	student-made and/or teacher-made videos versus authentic audio-visuals;
5)	technological aids for audio-visual materials
Please send a 300-500 word abstract to <Alfia.Rakova at dartmouth.edu> and <rpasqui at sas.upenn.edu>

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