LINGUIST List 21.3760 Fri Sep 24 2010 Confs: Applied Ling, Lang Acquisition/Cyprus Editor for this issue: Amy Brunett <brunettlinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.    Jack Burston, Foreign Language IT: Theory and Practice Message 1: Foreign Language IT: Theory and Practice Date: 24-Sep-2010 From: Jack Burston <jburstonucy.ac.cy> Subject: Foreign Language IT: Theory and Practice E-mail this message to a friend Foreign Language IT: Theory and Practice Short Title: FLIT Date: 03-Dec-2010 - 05-Dec-2010 Location: Nicosia, Cyprus Contact: Jack Burston Contact Email: jburstonucy.ac.cy Meeting URL: http://lcweb.ucy.ac.cy/Flit/index.htm Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisition Meeting Description: The conference is being organized by the Language Centre of the University of Cyprus in collaboration with the language departments of the School of Humanities and Department of Education as well as the Language Centre of the Cyprus University of Technology and the Cyprus Ministry of Education and Culture. It will be held at the University of Cyprus, Nicosia, December 3-5, 2010, and will include one day of hands-on workshops followed by two days of conference presentations. The conference seeks to address, on the one hand, the contributions of Second Language Acquisition research to instructional technology applications and, on the other, the implications of practical applications to learning theory. It is intended for those working in the field of Second Language Acquisition, foreign language pedagogy and Computer-Aided Language Learning as well as practicing and pre-service language teachers at the secondary and tertiary levels. Plenary Conference Speakers: Keynote - Professor Mike Levy, Head of the School of Languages and Linguistics - Griffith University, Queensland, Australia. Dr Phil Hubbard, Director, English for Foreign Students, Linguistics Department - Stanford University, California, USA. Dr Françoise Blin, Associate Dean for Learning Innovation in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Dublin City University, Ireland. Professor François Mangenot, Université Stendhal, Grenoble, France. Sophie Ioannou-Georgiou, Cyprus Pedagogical Institute Foreign Language Instructional Technology Conference Nicosia, Cyprus, Dec 3-5 We are pleased to announce that program details are now available online at the FLIT website: http://lcweb.ucy.ac.cy/Flit/index.htm Online registration for the conference is also now available. Please note that the early bird deadline for reduced registration fees is October 15, 2010. Special reduced hotel rates are also available. Consult the FLIT website for details. Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 24-Sep-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.