LINGUIST List 23.72 Wed Jan 04 2012 Calls: English, Applied Ling, Socioling/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 , English Language Education Policies And Practice: A Mediterannean Perspective Message 1: English Language Education Policies And Practice: A Mediterannean Perspective Date: 03-Jan-2012 From: Yasemin Bayyurt <bayyurtyboun.edu.tr> Subject: English Language Education Policies And Practice: A Mediterannean Perspective E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: English Language Education Policies And Practice: A Mediterannean Perspective Short Title: S73 Date: 04-Sep-2012 - 08-Sep-2012 Location: Istanbul, Turkey Contact Person: Yasemin Bayyurt Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Web Site: http://www.esse2012.org/en/scientific-programme-seminars.html Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Sociolinguistics Subject Language(s): English Call Deadline: 31-Jan-2012 Meeting Description: In this seminar, we aim to give a Mediterranean Perspective on the English language education policies, i.e., formal educational guidelines and orientations in the form of published curricula and teacher education documents, as well as practice, i.e., procedures related to teaching, learning, assessment and testing routines that spring from everyday classroom experience. We endeavor to elicit informed input from as many regions in the broader Mediterranean territory as possible, in the hope that we can draw conclusions about shared, or at least comparable, policies and practices regarding ESOL (English for speakers of other languages). We also give a historical account of the development of English language teaching policies and illustrate the current practices through the examples of empirical studies conducted in the field. Although the research context is Mediterranean countries, we claim that the findings are not confined to these cultural settings only. We believe, the issues discussed and presented in the seminar have important implications for similar ESOL contexts in the world. Call for Papers: If you are interested in taking part in the seminar, please contact one of the seminar organizers via email and send your abstract before the deadline for abstract submission for ESSE 2012, that is, 31 January 2012. We are looking forward to receiving your abstracts. Yasemin Bayyurt (Bogazici University, TR) bayyurtyboun.edu.tr Nicos Sifakis (Hellenic Open University, GR) sifakiseap.gr Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 04-Jan-2012       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.