INTRODUCTION
Once upon a time, a tale was told describing the events in the city of Babel. Ever since, it has been through language and teaching tales that language pedagogy has evolved. Around the end of the first millennium, a pedagogical grammar was developed by an Anglo-Saxon scholar called Aelfric. The boundless imagination of such language practitioners over the centuries has helped build a storehouse of fascinating told and untold tales. These tales narrate old and new, failure and success, and tradition and innovation in teaching practice. They are tales that continue to inspire us because they are rooted in professional experience.
The ELT culture has exerted a powerful influence on language education internationally. On behalf of the ELT Department of Education Faculty at the Eastern Mediterranean University, we would like to invite you to tell ELT “tales out of your school”, to share tales from different settings, learners and teachers, as well as e-tales about innovative practice in your context. We genuinely believe that at our convention we will all learn lessons from these tales about maximizing learning, empowering teaching, exploiting resources and fostering cultural awareness.
THEMES
Maximizing learning
-Learner-centered Instruction
-Learning Process
-Learning Outcomes
-Individual Learner Differences
-Learner Autonomy/Independence
-Learner Language/Interlanguage
-Learner strategies
Empowering teachers
-Teaching Strategies
-Teacher Training
-Professional Development
-Teacher Talk
-Teacher Motivation
Exploiting resources
-Curriculum/Syllabus Design
-ELT Management
-Materials/Aids/Realia
-Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
-Common European Framework
-Corpora in Language Education
Fostering cultural awareness
-English and Englishes
-English as a Lingua Franca
-Cross-cultural Awareness
-Critical Thinking Skills
- Multiple literacies
PRESENTATION TYPES
Paper presentation [20 + 10 mins]
The proposal should indicate the purpose of the study and its relevance to the theme of the conference. It can describe completed research or research in progress. For completed research, the methodology including the data collection and analysis procedures and the findings should be provided. For research in progress, steps related to the data collection and analysis processes should be described. For either submission, the proposal should include actual or anticipated results and their implications for future practices or further research.
Workshop [45 mins]
The proposal should clearly indicate how a new idea for teacher or learner development will be presented as a series of hands-on activities rather than as paper delivery. The idea to be shared with participants could be a new teaching technique; a new perspective on teacher development or learner progress; or it can be a new technological tool or software to foster teaching, learning or research. The proposal should clearly identify the stages of the workshop, showing how participants will gain insights into the new idea presented.
Poster Presentation
Posters will also play a significant part in the conference, with a special area set aside for posters. Poster presenters will also have the chance to have their work published in the proceedings should they submit their work in the required format for publication. A Proposal for a poster presentation should clearly indicate the purpose of the work as in the case of a paper presentation proposal- and its relevance to the conference theme. Posters may be of any size as long as they meet the criteria (please see the link on the conference website for details and instructions).
REVIEW AND NOTIFICATION PROCESS
The review process will start immediately after the deadline for submission: 25 December, 2009. All proposals will be evaluated on the basis of standard criteria of originality, novelty, significance and clarity by external and internal reviewers. Notifications of acceptance will be e-mailed as of 5 February, 2010. All presenters are expected to register in the specified registration periods. The following are the details for registration:
Early registration: 15 February, 2010 to 15 March, 2010.
Registration: 16 March, 2010 to 26 April, 2010
Registration fees are as follows:
Presenters
Early registration
Overseas : 125 €
Turkey & Local: 75 €
Registration
Overseas: 150 €
Turkey & Local: 100 €
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