LINGUIST List 22.3425 Tue Aug 30 2011 Calls: English, Applied Linguistics, Sociolinguistics/Turkey 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.     Yasemin Bayyurt , 5th International Conference of English as a Lingua Franca Message 1: 5th International Conference of English as a Lingua Franca Date: 29-Aug-2011 From: Yasemin Bayyurt <bayyurtyboun.edu.tr> Subject: 5th International Conference of English as a Lingua Franca E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: 5th International Conference of English as a Lingua Franca Short Title: ELF5 Date: 24-May-2012 - 26-May-2012 Location: Istanbul, Turkey Contact Person: Yasemin Bayyurt & Sumru Akcan Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Web Site: http://www.elf5.org Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Sociolinguistics Subject Language(s): English Call Deadline: 15-Nov-2011 Meeting Description: The 5th International Conference of English as a Lingua Franca is being hosted by Boğaziçi University, Faculty of Education, Department of Foreign Language Education, Istanbul, Turkey from May 24 to 26, 2012. The conference theme is: ‘Pedagogical Implications of ELF in the Expanding Circle’ However, the conference is open to all other ELF related topics such as: - ELF and Language Policy - ELF and Language Education - Collecting ELF Corpora and Describing ELF - The Sociolinguistics of ELF - Contact Languages and ELF - ELF and Multilingualism Plenary Speakers: - Cem Alptekin, Boğaziçi University, Turkey - Martin Dewey, King's College London, UK - Enric Llurda, University of Lleida, Spain - Tim McNamara, The University of Melbourne, Australia Plenary Panelists: - Jennifer Jenkins, University of Southampton, UK - Anna Mauranen, University of Helsinki, Finland - Barbara Seidlhofer, University of Vienna, Austria - Henry Widdowson, University of Vienna, Austria Special Symposia Organizers: - Robert Baird, University of Southampton, UK - Kingsley Bolton and David Graddol, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong - Ahmar Mahboob, The University of Sydney, Australia - Nicos Sifakis, Hellenic Open University, Greece and Andrew Blair, University of Sussex, UK Call for Papers: We would like to invite you to submit abstracts for the 5th International Conference of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF5) which is being hosted by the Department of Foreign Language Education at Boğaziçi University. The theme of the conference is 'Pedagogical Implications of ELF in the Expanding Circle'. However, you may submit abstracts on ELF-related topics, such as ELF and language education, the sociolinguistics of ELF, and ELF and language policy. Abstracts should be in English for paper, visual and symposium presentations. The deadline for abstract submission is November 15, 2011. All paper presentations will be published in the ELF5 Conference Proceedings Book. The deadline for full paper submission is June 15, 2012. In addition, selected conference papers will be published by a distinguished publishing house in the field. For more information please visit the official conference website at: http://www.elf5.org If you require further information, please contact us at infoelf5.org. Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 30-Aug-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.