LINGUIST List 21.2745
Tue Jun 29 2010
FYI: FLIT Conference: Second Call for Workshop Proposals
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FLIT Conference: Second Call for Workshop Proposals
Message 1: FLIT Conference: Second Call for Workshop Proposals
Date: 29-Jun-2010
From: Jack Burston <jburstonucy.ac.cy>
Subject: FLIT Conference: Second Call for Workshop Proposals
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Second Call for Workshop Proposals
Foreign Language Instructional Technology: Theory and PracticeUniversity of CyprusDecember 3-5, 2010
Location: Nicosia, CyprusContact: Jack BurstonContact Email: jburstonucy.ac.cyConference website: http://lcweb.ucy.ac.cy/Flit/index.htm
The Language Centre of the University of Cyprus is pleased toannounce its international conference Foreign Language InstructionalTechnology: Theory and Practice. The conference is being organizedin collaboration with the language departments of the School ofHumanities and Department of Education as well as the LanguageCentre of the Cyprus University of Technology and the Cyprus Ministryof Education and Culture. The conference will focus on the role ofinstructional technology in fostering independent language learning. Itwill be held at the University of Cyprus, Nicosia, December 3-5, 2010,and will include one day of hands-on workshops followed by two daysof conference presentations.
The conference seeks to address, on the one hand, the contributionsof Second Language Acquisition research to instructional technologyapplications and, on the other, the implications of practical applicationsto learning theory. It is intended for those working in the field of SecondLanguage Acquisition, foreign language pedagogy and Computer-Aided Language Learning as well as practicing and pre-servicelanguage teachers at the secondary and tertiary levels.
Call for Workshop Proposals:Proposals for workshops (90 minutes/3 hours) are invited in any of thefollowing conference topic areas:- Social networking- Computer-mediated Communication- Distance and blended learning- Self-access learning- Task and project based learning- Mobile learning- Networked learning in adult education/professional development- Building Language Learning Communities- Innovative e-learning technologies- Multimodality and language learning- Individualization/differentiation in the language classroom- Computer-adaptive testing
Proposals for workshops, to be conducted in English, should besubmitted online at the FLIT conference website(http://lcweb.ucy.ac.cy/Flit/index.htm) no later than July 12. Theyshould be between 250-300 words and accompanied by a brief biodatastatement (75-100 words) of the person(s) making the proposal.
Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisition
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