LINGUIST List 21.4182 Thu Oct 21 2010 Confs: Applied Ling/UK 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.     June Thompson , EUROCALL Message 1: EUROCALL Date: 20-Oct-2010 From: June Thompson <d.j.thompsonhull.ac.uk> Subject: EUROCALL E-mail this message to a friend EUROCALL Short Title: EUROCALL 2011 Date: 31-Aug-2011 - 03-Sep-2011 Location: Nottingham, United Kingdom Contact: Oranna Speicher Contact Email: < click here to access email > Meeting URL: http://www.eurocall2011.eu/eurocall/index.aspx Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics Meeting Description: The University of Nottingham is delighted to welcome Eurocall back to the UK in 2011. The conference will take place on the Jubilee Campus in the city of Nottingham and will be hosted by the School of Modern Languages and Cultures. The theme of the Nottingham conference is 'The Call Triangle: Student, Teacher and Institution' and will seek to explore student expectations of the role of technology in their learning, how the teaching profession embraces new developments and the part played by the learning institution in providing a rich learning environment for both students and staff. Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) is an established but rapidly evolving academic field that explores the role of information and communication technologies in language learning and teaching. It includes highly interactive and communicative support for listening, speaking, reading and writing, involving extensive use of the Internet, and a wide range of activities and initiatives in materials development, pedagogical practice, and research. Research in CALL has been carried out for more than thirty years, and has now reached a significant level of volume and maturity. It is a truly international discipline and has led to notable improvements in the teaching and learning of languages in secondary and higher education institutions worldwide. It is important, however, to emphasise the interdisciplinary nature of CALL. CALL research can be said to belong to the field of Applied Language Studies and, in particular, to Second Language Acquisition (SLA), itself a rapidly evolving discipline. CALL and SLA are related to linguistics and its subdivisions: sociolinguistics, pragmatics, discourse analysis, psycholinguistics, semantics, phonetics, and corpus linguistics. Conference Programme: Wednesday 31st August 08:30 - 17:00 Registration 09:30 - 17:00 Workshop programme Full day and half day workshops 17:00 - 18:30 Educational Showcase Programme 19:30 - 22:00 Social Event Welcome Reception, Atrium Building, Jubilee Campus Thursday 1st September 08:30 - 17:00 Registration 08:45 - 18:00 Conference Programme 19:30 Evening social event - ''A Taste of the East Midlands'' on University Park, the University of Nottingham's main campus. Friday 2nd September 08:30 - 16:00 Registration 09:00 - 18:00 Conference programme 19:30 Conference Dinner - Blotts Country Club Saturday 3rd September 09:00 - 15:00 Conference Programme 15:00 - 16:00 Closing Ceremony Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 21-Oct-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.