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unibas.ch>Call for papers and conference announcement ________________________________________________ EUROSLA12 European Second Language Association ________________________________________________ The Annual Conference of the European Second Language Association will be held in Basel, Switzerland, from 18 to 21 Sept. 2002. The conference is co-organized by the University of Basel and the Swiss Association of Applied Linguistics (VALS/ASLA). PLENARY SPEAKERS: Ulrich Dausendsch�n-Gay (Universit�t Bielefeld) Daniel Gaonac�h (Universit� de Poitiers) Tim McNamara (University of Melbourne) Christiane von Stutterheim (Universit�t Heidelberg) CALL FOR PAPERS PAPERS are invited on every aspect of empirical and theoretical second language acquisition research: INDIVIDUAL PAPERS : individual papers will be allotted 20 minutes of presentation plus 10 minutes for discussion. Submissions should include, in the following order, the title of the paper, name and affiliation of the author(s), an abstract of 300 words, followed by the author�s postal and email addresses. PANELS : panels covering one or two 90 minutes time-slots and focussing on a specific topic can be proposed by a panel organizer. A panel can consist of closely related papers or be organized as a round table or a data session. Submissions should include, in the following order, the title of the panel, a 600 word abstract (which clearly points out the thematic coherence of the panel), the number of time-slots covered (1 or 2), the participants� names and affiliations plus the organizer�s name, affiliation and postal and email addresses. DOCTORAL WORKSHOPS : doctoral workshops focus on problems of methodology with regard to either data analysis (interpretation of natural conversation, statistical data, interviews, etc.) or research design (experimental design, corpus design, issues of data collection, etc.). Each presentation lasts 20 minutes and will be followed by a 10 minute reaction by a senior researcher and 10 minutes of discussion. Submissions should follow the same formal conventions as individual papers (see above). State briefly the aim and the theoretical framework of your work and then raise the methodological problems you submit for discussion. If your presentation is accepted, you will be asked to send a more extensive summary to the discussant of your paper. EUROSLA12 will be a trilingual conference (English, German and French); presentations in one of these languages are particularly encouraged, though any European language is accepted. A selection of the most innovative papers will be included in the EUROSLA Yearbook, published in English by the John Benjamins Publishing Co. SUBMISSIONS: All submissions should be sent to Eurosla12-RomsemMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
email.arizona.edu>Call for Papers Twelfth Annual Symposium on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literature, Linguistics and Culture Department of Spanish and Portuguese University of Arizona February 14-16, 2002 The organizing committee will consider papers that explore all areas and periods of Hispanic, Luso-Brazilian and U.S. Hispanic literature, culture, pedagogy, linguistics and literary theory. To present a paper please submit an abstract in English, Spanish or Portuguese of 300 words or less. The committee will consider requests for the formation of special sessions organized around a specific topic, author or work. Such request should be submitted as soon as possible. Abstracts must be submitted by November 16, 2001, and include a check for $10.00 dollars made payable to the Graduate Student Symposium. For abstracts submitted electronically, please send checks to the Department of Spanish and Portuguese (address below). Use the following link to submit your abstract (by copying and pasting) at the abstract submission form: http://www.coh.arizona.edu/spanish/symposium/abstract.htm Electronic submission is preferred as Symposium participants will receive important notices and information via e-mail and website postings. Using the form is preferrable to mailing attachments. Reading time of final papers is limited to 20 minutes (8-10 double-spaced pages). No papers will be read in absentia. A selection of papers delivered will be considered for publication in the Annual Selected Proceedings. Two prizes of $100.00 dollars will be awarded for the two best papers. For more information regarding publication go to Selected Proceedings If you prefer to mail your abstract, include with it, on a separate sheet of paper and in this order: your name, university, e-mail address, phone number, address, department, presentation title, audiovisual needs and comments. If you submit your abstract by mail it must be postmarked by November 16, 2001. Mail abstract to the following address: Twelfth Annual Symposium Organizing Committee Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, Modern Languages 545 P.O. Box 210067 University of Arizona Tucson, Arizona 85721-0067 For more information contact Sergio Mart�nez semartinMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue