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let.rug.nl>SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS CALL FOR PARTICIPATION TABU-Day: one-day conference on general linguistics 22 June 2001 University of Groningen TABU-Day is an annual one-day conference on general linguistics, organised by the University of Groningen. The conference languages are Dutch and English. TABU-Day 2001 will be held on Friday, June 22, at the following location Harmonie Building, Oude Kijk in 't Jatstraat 26, Groningen, The Netherlands This year's keynote lectures will be given by Prof. Keith Johnson, Associate Professor of Linguistics at the Linguistics Department, Ohio State University, and Prof. Henk Verkuyl, Professor of the Linguistics Section of the Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS. The title of Keith Johnson's talk is "X-MOD: An exemplar-based model of speech perception (and phonology?)", Henk Verkuyl will speak on "Tense from the compositional point of view". Abstracts are invited, for presentations in all aspects of linguistics. The presentations are 20 minutes in length followed by 5 minutes of discussion. The abstract deadline is May 25, 2001. In principle, TABU-Day accepts all submissions. Abstracts should not exceed 400 words and can be in either Dutch or English. An abstract should contain the title of the paper, the author's name, address, affiliation, e-mail address, and phone number, the abstract text, and any requirements for special equipment. Authors should submit abstracts via e-mail as a plain ASCII file. If e-mail submission is not possible, please contact the organisers. Please send your abstracts to the following address: tanjaMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
yahoo.com>Call for papers Special issue of Asian Journal of English Language Teaching Theme: Learning and Teaching English in the Chinese EFL Context Asian Journal of English Language Teaching (AJELT) invites submissions for a special theme issue to be published in 2002 focusing on "Learning and Teaching English in the Chinese EFL Context." Chinese EFL learners and their input-poor learning context can arguably represent the core of Asia's EFL learning community and the Confucian culture of learning. Recent decades have also witnessed a surprising number of highly successful EFL learners and professionals being produced in China. However, it is not an overstatement to say that the field of applied linguistics and second language acquisition has been long on assumptions and short on empirical evidence when it comes to the Chinese learner. This special issue thus attempts to bring into perspective the Chinese learner, the Chinese EFL context, and the EFL learning task through data-driven research. It is hoped that a close scrutiny of this unique configuration of learner, task, and context can contribute to the understanding of both EFL in the Chinese context and second language acquisition in general. Possible topics include but are not limited to the following: � The Chinese learning culture or cross-cultural studies � Motivation and other affective factors � Learning styles and learning strategies � Teaching of English: theories and practices � Curriculum development � Evaluation and testing � Teacher training � Computer assisted language learning (CALL) Along with full-length articles and reports of ongoing projects, reviews of books and/or multimedia materials that shed light on the Chinese EFL learner are also invited. Interested contributors should send an e-mail of intent with an abstract of 200 words by 31 August 2001 to the guest editor. In addition, please include the following items in your email: title of the manuscript, author's (or authors') name(s), the main author's full mailing address, institutional affiliation, e-mail address, fax and phone numbers. Full submission guidelines for AJELT can be obtained at http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/ajelt/vol10/subguid.htm Editors, AJELT Gwendolyn Gong and George S. Braine Department of English The Chinese University of Hong Kong Shatin, New Territories Hong Kong e-mail ggongMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue