LINGUIST List 21.5138 Sat Dec 18 2010 Confs: Applied Linguistics/United Kingdom Editor for this issue: Di Wdzenczny <dilinguistlist.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.     Sue Garton , Theorising Practice and Practising Theory Message 1: Theorising Practice and Practising Theory Date: 16-Dec-2010 From: Sue Garton <s.gartonaston.ac.uk> Subject: Theorising Practice and Practising Theory E-mail this message to a friend Theorising Practice and Practising Theory: Short Title: BAAL LLT SIG Date: 07-Jul-2011 - 08-Jul-2011 Location: Birmingham, United Kingdom Contact: Sue Garton Contact Email: lss_baalaston.ac.uk Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics Meeting Description: The 7th BAAL Learning and Teaching SIG conference, entitled, 'Theorising practice and practising theory: developing local pedagogies in language teaching.' Particular consideration will be given to papers that explore questions such as: 'How do local contexts affect language teaching pedagogies?' 'What affordances do bilingual teachers bring to the language classroom?' 'What does the development of lingua francas mean for language learning and teaching?' 'How can theory be developed from contextual practice?' 'How can practitioners contribute to local research and theorist/researchers contribute to local practice?' Submissions are encouraged from researchers in all areas of language teaching, including, but by no means restricted to, English language teaching. Research students investigating areas relevant to the conference theme are warmly welcomed to contribute to the conference. Plenary speakers for the conference are Professor B. Kumaravadivelu (San José State University, USA), Professor Juliane House (Hamburg University, Germany) and Dr Julian Edge (University of Manchester). Papers will be 20 minutes long with 10 minutes for questions. Dedicated space and time will be given to poster presentations. Abstracts (up to 300 words) should be submitted by email attachment (Word files) to lss_baalaston.ac.uk. Queries about the conference should also be sent to this email address. Please follow these procedures for your submission: 1. Submit two files, one containing title (up to 10 words) abstract and details of the author(s) (name(s), affiliation, mailing address and email address) and one containing title and an anonymous abstract. Files must be sent using the following format: first initial_last name_abstract 1 and first initial_lastname_abstract 2 2. Also provide a short abstract of no more than 50 words for use in conference program 3. Under the title in each full abstract, please give four keywords which summarise the paper/poster. 4. Please specify under the abstract whether you wish to present a paper or a poster. The deadline for submissions is Friday February 18th, 2011. Registration opens on Monday 7th March 2011. Conference fees are: £120 members, £150 non-members, £90 students Dr Sue Garton Director of Postgraduate Programmes in English School of Languages & Social Sciences Aston University Aston Triangle Birmingham B4 7ET Tel: 0121 204 3806 Fax: 0121 204 3766 Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 18-Dec-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.