LINGUIST List 22.2069 Sat May 14 2011 Calls: English, Applied Linguistics/Hong Kong Editor for this issue: Alison Zaharee <alisonlinguistlist.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.     Nancy Guo , International Symposium on Teaching English at Tertiary Level Message 1: International Symposium on Teaching English at Tertiary Level Date: 13-May-2011 From: Nancy Guo <nancygsdgmail.com> Subject: International Symposium on Teaching English at Tertiary Level E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: International Symposium on Teaching English at Tertiary Level Short Title: 7th ISTETL Date: 13-Oct-2011 - 14-Oct-2011 Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Contact Person: Nancy Guo Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Web Site: http://www.engl.polyu.edu.hk/events/7thISTETL.htm Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics Subject Language(s): English Call Deadline: 20-Jun-2011 Meeting Description: The 7th International Symposium on Teaching English at Tertiary Level aims to provide a platform for academics to discuss and review various issues related to teaching English at tertiary level with a featured focus on language assessment and alignment of assessment with curriculum. It is jointly organised by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Tsinghua University, and co-organised by Zhejiang University. Call for Papers: The symposium organizing committee welcomes abstracts of paper presentations addressing research and pedagogical issues at the tertiary educational level in the following areas: 1. Teaching and learning English as a second/foreign language 2. Language testing and assessment 3. Curriculum/syllabus/materials development 4. Aligning assessment with curriculum 5. English for academic/specific purposes 6. English as a global lingua franca 7. Language education and technology 8. Corpus and discourse research in language education 9. Multimodality in the learning and teaching of English 10. Learner autonomy and learning strategies 11. Longitudinal perspectives in the learning and teaching of English 12. Learning English and learning disciplinary content through English Abstract Submissions: All individual presentations will be 25 minutes in length, including 10 minutes' question time. Your abstract (in MS Word Version) should be a maximum of 250 words (excluding references). Please also include in your abstract: (1) theme area (state one of the above areas), (2) title of your paper, (3) your name and title, (4) your affiliation, and (5) your e-mail address and mailing address. Each participant can submit only one abstract as the lead author and one abstract as a co-author. Lead authors must register by 10 September 2011 in order for the paper to be included in the conference programme. Please send submissions to: egistetlinet.polyu.edu.hk Important Dates: Deadline for abstract submissions: 20 June 2011 Notice of acceptance: 20 July 2011 Early bird registration: by 10 Sept 2011 Cancellation (50% refunds): by 10 Sept 2011 (No refund after 10 Sept 2011) Publication: All presented papers which are submitted by 31 Dec 2011 will be peer-reviewed for consideration in the Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Teaching English at Tertiary Level. Conference Organizers: Department of English, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (http://www.engl.polyu.edu.hk/) Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures, Tsinghua University, China (http://www.tsinghua.edu.cn/publish/fdll/index.html) Co-Organizer: School of International Studies, Zhejiang University, China (http://www.zisu.edu.cn/2010homepage/) Conference Website: http://www.engl.polyu.edu.hk/events/7thISTETL.htm Enquiries: egistetlinet.polyu.edu.hk Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 14-May-2011       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.