LINGUIST List 6.1415

Fri Oct 13 1995

Calls: Pan-Asia, ECAI, SCIL

Editor for this issue: T. Daniel Seely <dseelyemunix.emich.edu>

Directory

1. "Thai Teachers of English to Speakers ofttesolnwg.nectec.or.th, PAN-ASIA CONFERENCE '97: First Announcement and Call for Papers
2. Elisabeth Andre, ECAI-96: SECOND CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
3. Leslie Barrett, adjustment to SCIL call for Papers

 PAN-ASIA: A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING
 January 5-7, 1997, The Ambassador Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand
 Thai TESOL 17th Annual Conference
 In Partnership with JALT and Korea TESOL
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Theme: PAN-ASIA: A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING
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The conference will explore common interests and issues on English language
teaching from an Asian perspective:
	- Culturally relevant techniques and materials
	- Appropriate technology relating to education
	- Effective use of English throughout Asia
Rationale and Aims:
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Asia is one of the most rapidly developing regions in the world. It has
risen to prominence in all areas of industry, manufacturing and economy.
Yet Asia is characterized by its diversity as much as by its uniformity.
Development has brought increased links with the world as well as within
Asia itself and the primary medium of communication is the English
language. This conference will be the first to provide teachers of English
language from various countries across Asia a forum to meet, discuss,
compare experiences, share knowledge, methods, and techniques, and to
explore whether a new and common vision for English language teaching in
Asia may be forged.
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Venue: The Ambassador Hotel, 171 Sukhumvit Road, Bangkok, Thailand
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Participants:
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There will be about 2,000 language and teaching professionals including
teachers from all educational levels, teacher trainers, program
administrators, curriculum developers, and test developers. The majority
of participants will be from the Asia Pacific region.
Language of the Conference: English
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CONFERENCE ENQUIRIES: Naraporn Chan-Ocha <fflnncochulkn.car.chula.ac.th>
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 CALL FOR PAPERS
Proposals are invited for papers, workshops, demonstrations, poster
presentations and publisher's sessions.
KINDS OF PRESENTATION:
1. Papers - These are lecture presentations to a formal audience. The
duration is 45 minutes including time for questions and comments from the
audience. The Conference Committee reserve the right to assign papers to
either plenary or parallel sessions.
2. Demonstrations - Rather than describing and discussing, a demonstration
shows techniques for teaching. Normally, the presenter's statement of the
theory underlying the technique takes no more than five minutes. The rest
of the demonstration is used for showing, rather than telling. The presenter
usually has handouts and may also use audiovisual aids. The abstract should
include a brief statement of the presenter's central purpose and a
description of what will be demonstrated (e.g. role playing) and how it
will be done (e.g. some of the audience participating as students or an
unrehearsed lesson with actual students). The duration is 45 or 90 minutes,
inclusive of questions and comments from the audience.
3. Workshops - These are demonstrations or discussions of classroom
practices in which audience members are expected to be actively involved.
The duration is 90 minutes. Certain workshops may be repeated where
desirable and feasible.
4. Poster Sessions - A poster session allows for informal discussion with
passers-by while a self-explanatory exhibit is on display. The exhibit is
presented on a four-foot by eight-foot (roughly one meter by two meters)
bulletin board. It includes a title, the name and affiliation of the
presenters, and a brief text with clearly labeled photographs, drawings,
graphs or charts. Appropriate topics would include projects in progress,
or materials development.
5. Publisher's Sessions - This is an opportunity for an exhibitor to
present materials and to explain the thinking behind them more fully than
is possible at an exhibition booth. These sessions are presented by book
publishers, authors, editors or distributors, equipment manufacturers,
and others whose goods or services have significance for the participants.
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For important dates, information for presenters, registration form, proposal
form, please contact: ttesolnwg.nectec.or.th
Full information will be available on Thai TESOL WWW Page. To be announced.

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		 ECAI-96: SECOND CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
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	 12th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence
			 August 12-16, 1996
			 Budapest, Hungary
Deadline for Workshop Proposals: 1 November 1995
Workshop dates 12-13 August 1996
For more information, see
 http://www.dfki.uni-sb.de/ecai96/call-for-workshops.html

		FIRST	 CALL	 FOR 	PAPERS!!
			Eighth Annual
		Student	Conference in Linguistics
			SCIL VIII 1996
		New York University in New York City
			April 19-21, 1996
Students are invited to submit abstracts for 30 minute talks (20 minute
presentation with 10 minutes for questions) in all areas of theoretical
linguistics. Students may submit one individual and one joint abstract.
Postmark deadline/e-mail deadline: January 5, 1996
Please observe the following Format:
	- send six copies of an anonymous one-page abstract, mono-spaced font
	12-point type with 1" margins. A second page may be included for
	examples and references.
	- send a 3" x 5" card along with the six copies of the abstract which
	includes the title of the paper, name and affiliation of the author(s),
	phone #s and e-mail addresses.
Send all such submissions to:
SCIL Committee
Department of Linguistics
New York University
719 Broadway
New York, N.Y. 10003
E-mail submission will be accepted at: barrettcs.nyu.edu
If you have any questions, please either contact the e-mail address above, or c
all (212)998-7950