LINGUIST List 23.4989

Thu Nov 29 2012

Calls: Modified: English, Applied Linguistics, Sociolinguistics/Denmark

Editor for this issue: Alison Zaharee <alisonlinguistlist.org>


Date: 28-Nov-2012
From: Chryso Hadjidemetriou <c.hadjidemetriousheffield.ac.uk>
Subject: English Language in Teaching in European Higher Education
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Full Title: English Language in Teaching in European Higher Education Short Title: EIE
Date: 19-Apr-2013 - 21-Apr-2013 Location: Copenhagen, Denmark Contact Person: Anna Kristina Hultgren
Meeting Email: < click here to access email >
Web Site: http://www.englishineurope.postgrad.shef.ac.uk/Conferences/Conference%20in%20Copenhagen/
Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): English

Call Deadline: 10-Jan-2013

Meeting Description:

English Language in Teaching in European Higher Education
19-21 April 2013, Copenhagen (new dates)
Organised by the University of Copenhagen

On behalf of our Sheffield-based team, we are pleased to announce the third conference of the Leverhulme Trust-funded research network: English in Europe: Opportunity or Threat. The conference will take place Friday 19 April - Sunday 21 April 2013 (new dates) in Copenhagen, Denmark.

The theme of the conference is ‘The English Language in Teaching in European Higher Education’.

Keynote Speakers:

We are proud to announce our confirmed keynote speakers:

Robert Phillipson, Professor Emeritus, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Francis Hult, Associate Professor, Lund University
Glenn Ole Hellekjær, Associate Professor, University of Oslo

Call for Papers:

The theme of the conference is ‘The English Language in Teaching in European Higher Education’. We invite papers on all topics relating to this theme. This may include but is not limited to:

- Ideologies of English in higher education
- Language policy in higher education
- English medium instruction in higher education
- Consequences of English medium instruction for local languages
- Parallellingualism and multilingualism in higher education
- English as an academic lingua franca
- Content and language integrated learning (CLIL)
- English for academic purposes (EAP)
- English language testing in higher education

We welcome papers from non-European contexts too.

Submission Guidelines:

Please send an anonymous abstract of no more than 300 words as an attachment to ciphum.ku.dk with ‘Abstract for Spring 2013 Conference’ in the subject field. In a second attachment include your abstract, paper title, name and contact details of the author(s). All papers will be submitted to blind peer review and assessed according to relevance and quality.

Important Dates:

Conference announcement and call for papers: 12 September 2012Deadline abstract submission: 10 January 2013Notification of abstract outcome / Registration opens: 1 February 2013Deadline for registration: 18 March 2013
Conference: 19-21 April 2013 (new dates)


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