Category: CFP

#CFP @EuroCALLlanguages 2016 abstract deadline 31 Jan 16

 

23rd EUROCALL Conference (http://eurocall2016.org/)

24-27 August, 2016, Lemesos, Cyprus

THEME: CALL Communities & Culture

Call for Papers
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Call for Participation
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Do not miss the exciting opportunity to present a paper, a symposium, an EU-funded project, a workshop, or a poster at the EuroCALL 2016. The 23rd EUROCALL Conference will be held at the Cyprus University of Technology in Lemesos (Limassol) Cyprus from 24th to 27th August 2016.

EUROCALL conferences are hosted under the auspices of the EUROCALL Association. They bring together educators, researchers, PhD students, administrators, designers of software and language learning systems, policy makers and other professionals involved in Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) around the globe.

Conference languages: English and Greek (Plenary sessions will be in English, some parallel sessions may be in Greek).

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Thematic Areas
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· Interculturalism/ Multilingualism/ Bilingualism in CALL:
o CALL, inclusion and social justice
o Cultural Inclusion
o Interdisciplinarity and Internationalization through CALL
o CALL and less commonly taught languages
· Materials and modes of CALL:
o Social Networking
o Telecollaboration and CMC
o MOOCs for language learning
o Mobile Assisted Language Learning (MALL)
o Preparing and delivering Open Educational Resources (OER), open courseware and open online courses for language learning
· Teacher education and professional development
· New research trends in CALL:
o Learning analytics and CALL design
o DBR (Design-Based Research)
· Designs and pedagogy for CALL, e.g.:
o Task-based learning
o Autonomous and lifelong learning
o Competence or outcome-based frameworks (CEFR, IATEFL, etc.) in CALL design
o Open and independent online language learning
o Computer-based language tests
· Other topics can also be considered as long as they as long as they are relevant to the conference theme.

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Important Deadlines
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Deadline for submissions of proposals: January 31st 2016
Notification of acceptance: April 8th 2016
Online registration opens: April 10th 2016
Early-bird Registration ends: May 31st 2016
Deadline for registration for accepted authors: May 31st 2016

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Conference contact
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Conference Organiser: salomi.papadima@cut.ac.cy
Programme Administration: info@easyconferences.eu

Proposals are invited for individual papers, symposia, european projects, workshops and posters:

1. Individual papers

Papers can be submitted for either 45 minute presentations or 30 minute presentations:

· 45-minute presentations: 30 minutes presentation, 10 minutes for questions, 5 minutes for room changes
· 30-minute presentations: 20 minutes presentation, 5 for questions, 5 minutes for room changes

Three types of papers may be submitted:

1. Research: papers focusing on a clearly specified research topic supported by a rationale, including a brief literature review. The thrust may be empirical or theoretical. The methodology should be clearly outlined as well as the actual or potential findings.
2. Research and development: papers focusing on the development of applications and programmes integrating CALL. The research should be original and may emphasize practice rather than research. They may also be based on projects either completed or under development (European, national, local).
3. Reflective practice: papers dealing with the integration of ICT in different contexts and for different purposes. The reflection could take the form of evaluation or action-research. Proposals should include elements that are of relevance beyond the context of the practice described.
2. Symposia

Symposia consist of from three to six presentations on a similar topic, proposed and organised by a chairperson, and should normally address the conference theme. Sessions last for 90 minutes, with NO changeover during the symposium. The proposal should outline the purpose of the symposium, the names and institutions of the participants, with a sentence mentioning what aspect of the main problem that each will address.

Submissions for symposia from EUROCALL’s SIGs are particularly welcome, with a view to promote their work to the conference delegates and encourage participation in the SIGs. Current Eurocall SIGs are: Teacher Education, Virtual Worlds, Natural Language Processing, CorpusCall, Computer Mediated Communication, and Mobile-Assisted Language Learning.

3. European Projects

This year’s conference will again offer a forum for the showcasing and dissemination of EU-funded projects. Each project will be allocated a 30-minute slot, including questions.

4. Workshops

Workshops are either half a day or a full day in duration and typically involve a hands-on session, where participants have the opportunity to become familiar with the latest developments in relevant topic areas in language teaching and learning and tools associated with these. We particularly welcome workshop proposals addressing the conference theme from theoretical and/or practical perspectives. The proposal should include the intended duration of the workshop, its main purpose and a brief outline of topics covered/ activities as well as technical requirements. Workshops will be scheduled on 24th August.

5. Posters

Since posters aim to attract attention to a particular project or research domain, they should mainly focus on work in progress. They may, however, report previous or preliminary findings. Posters should be clear, easy to read and attractively laid out. Submissions from advanced students are especially welcome in this category. A prize will be awarded for the best poster in two categories: PhD/Graduate student and non-PhD student.

For formatting instructions and more information please see: http://eurocall2016.org/

Proposal submission system: https://www.openconf.org/EUROCALL2016/openconf.php

‘EMMA’ corpus: a resource for research and teaching

5
Multilingualism Research Group lunchtime seminar

Cambridge Language Sciences
November 19, 13.00-14.30
GR05, Faculty of English
DTAL 's 'EMMA' corpus: a resource for research and teaching

Dr Edith Esch (University of Cambridge)

This session will be a presentation of the EMMA corpus, which was recorded between July 1982 and July 1983 in the studio of theLinguistics Department (then located in a cricket pavilion now buried under the Law Faculty building). 

The  project was originally funded by the British Academy. It was intended from the start as a resource for the longitudinal analysis of the phonetic development of a bilingual child from the onset of speech until the moment when both languages are clearly separated.  Emma was born on 9th Feb 1981 and she was brought up from birth in the UK in a bilingual family (dad English speaker, mum French speaker) working on the principle of ?French at Home ? English outside?. The aim was to throw light on the nature of children?s phonological acquisition and in particular their ability to acquire and use two different phonological systems and sets of phonological distinctions by observing their production of the phonetic cues on which phonological oppositions are based.

Overall, the corpus consists of 50 sessions of 30 minutes each. Each session consists of three ten minute parts, one taking place in French with Emma?s mum, one taking place in English with Emma?s child-minder, Mrs F, and the third one in English with Mrs F and another little girl  four months older than Emma, Joanne. The corpus was digitised throughout last year by Howard France, the AVA technician of the Central Sites of the University, and it is now available to the students and members of DTAL. I will explain how the original recordings were made as well as the decisions which had to be made at the digitisation stage.

Deadline January 30 #CFP Young language Learners Symposium 2016 U. Oxford

 

Call for Papers for the forthcoming Young language Learners Symposium to be held in July 2016, at the University of Oxford.

Young Language Learners (YLL) Symposium 2016

Department of Education, University of Oxford University

July 6th – 8th, 2016

Email: YLL2016@education.ox.ac.uk

Call for Papers

The organizing committee of the YLL Symposium 2016 invites the submission of abstracts on any research-oriented topic relating to the learning of a foreign, second or additional language by learners of primary school age or younger.

Presentation Format

Oral Presentations (individual or co-authored papers) to be given in a 20-minute oral presentation plus 10 minutes of discussion.

Poster Presentations (individual or co-authored papers). Posters should be prepared for A0 (841 x 1189 mm).

Submission Guidelines

• The word limit for abstracts is 350 words

• The total number of presentations per participant as first presenter should be no more than two, including a combination of oral presentation and/or poster presentation.

To submit an abstract please click here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=yll2016 You will need to create an account if you do not already have one. This can be done here: https://www.easychair.org/account/signup.cgi

Important Dates:

Deadline for submission of abstracts: January 30th, 2016

Notification of acceptance: by March 14th, 2016

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Victoria A. Murphy, PhD | Professor of Applied Linguistics
Department of Education | University of Oxford
15 Norham Gardens | Oxford | OX2 6PY | UK
Tel: +44(0)1865 274042 | Fax: +44(0)1865 274027

REAL GROUP: http://www.education.ox.ac.uk/research/applied-linguistics/r-e-a-l/

For NALDIC, the subject association for EAL – www.naldic.org.uk

Young Language Learners 2016 Conference: http://www.education.ox.ac.uk/research/applied-linguistics/the-young-language-learners-yll-symposium-2016/

2nd Intl Conference on the Sociolinguistics of Immigration Abstracts until Dec 20

 

Through the AESLA list

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2nd International Conference on the Sociolinguistics of Immigration

Rapallo (Italy), September, 22-23, 2016
The aim of the Conference is to focus on epistemological and methodological continuities and discontinuities in the sociolinguistics of immigration. Several new researches and approaches have begun to emerge in the last few years: translingualism, polylanguaging, truncated repertoires, crossing metrolingualism.
Two main processes have contributed to this change: the epistemological orientation towards postmodernist and critical social theories within sociolinguistics as well as applied linguistics, linguistic anthropology and related disciplines and globalization.
The focus of attention of the 2nd International Conference of the Sociolinguistics of Immigration is to explore these research orientations, whilst also aiming to critically discuss these and any (dis)continuities and/or potential links between “old” and “new” orientations.
The confirmed plenary speakers will be: A. Creese and A. Blackledge (University of Birmingham) and M. Hundt (University of Zürich).

Abstract Submission
Each abstract should not exceed 500 words (incl. at least four keywords and references). Text should be justified and single-spaced (font size: Times New Roman 12pt).
Name, affiliation, and e-mail address should be on separate first page of the electronic copy.
Every individual presentation will last 20 minutes (plus 10 minutes for discussion and questions).

Important dates
The abstract submission period opens on October 20, 2015.
Abstracts can be submitted until December 20, 2015 and sent as a word attachment to gerardo.mazzaferro@unito.it.
Confirmation of acceptance: January 20, 2016.
Registration for the conference starts on October 20, 2015 and closes on February 20, 2016.
Conference dates: September 22-23, 2016 .

Further details on the conference can be found at: http://www.dipartimentolingue.unito.it/slimig2016/oss-home.asp

CFP Migration Discourses across Languages, Societies and Discourse Communities

 

Migration Discourses across Languages, Societies and Discourse Communities

part of CADAAD 2016 at the University of Catania, 5-7 September 2016.

While in the last two decades public and political discourses about migration have been studied within a range of countries and languages, only a small amount of research has been concerned with comparing and contrasting migration discourses across languages, societies and discourse communities. The panel invites such comparative and contrastive approaches to migration discourses with the aim of carving out their potential to reveal common threads of migration discourses as well as those that are determined by specific historical, political and social contexts. In so doing, we may be able to track the similarities and shared frames of migration discourses across contexts.

We invite comparative studies of migration discourses based on a range of text types, languages and discourse communities including, but not limited to the following:
– Newspaper discourse across languages
– Social media discourse across languages/discourse communities
– Political discourse across parties, languages or discourse communities
– Inter- or intralingual comparison of the discourses of different stakeholder communities

We welcome papers coming from a variety of theoretical and methodological angles, including but not limited to:
– Corpus assisted discourse approaches
– Discourse historical approaches
– Cognitive approaches
– Argumentation
– Media Communication Studies
– Multimodal Discourse Analysis
– Discourse Psychology
– Pragmatics
– Sociolinguistics

Please send an abstract of 300 words (excluding references) attached to an email to Charlotte Taylor (charlotte.taylor@sussex.ac.uk) or Melani Schröter (m.schroeter@reading.ac.uk). The abstract should be anonymised, but please include in your email your name, institutional affiliation and preferred email address for correspondence with the panel organisers.
Submissions need to be received by 30 November.

Please see http://www.cadaad2016.unict.it/ for information about the conference. For more information about the planned panel, please contact Charlotte Taylor (charlotte.taylor@sussex.ac.uk) or Melani Schröter (m.schroeter@reading.ac.uk).