Conference Description:
CALL FOR PAPERS
SUBMISSION DEADLINE : Monday 9 January 2012
Language Futures is the sixth biennial conference organised by LLAS Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies (LLAS), The University Council of Modern Languages (UCML) and the Association of University Language Centres (AULC). It aims to bring together language teachers and researchers from across languages and related disciplines. It will be of interest to those in higher education and related sectors including secondary schools and further education.It is also aimed at representatives of business, language professions and any other employers who wish to develop closer links with education in the field of languages. It is intended as a forum for networking, sharing ideas and resources ,and exploring ways of meeting the challenges of sustaining good quality language education.
The conference will address five key themes relating to the current and emerging landscape of languages in education:
1. Engaging with policy
2. Learning and Teaching
3. Graduate skills and employability
4. Internationalisation and mobility
5. Transition into higher education
We welcome a broad spectrum of scholarly and research-informed presentations relating to one or more of these themes from colleagues at all stages of their career in both education and research-led roles. We are also inviting submissions to our ideas workshop which will be a forum for the presentation and discussion of practical and innovative teaching solutions. Each idea will be offered via a poster and short presentation with participants being invited to respond with comments, further ideas and examples from their own practice.
Abstracts of up to 200 words for presentations or ideas workshop sessions on the above themes should be submitted no later than Monday 9th January 2012 to llas@soton.ac.uk. The submission form can be downloaded here.Word (Word, 631 KB). Presentations will be 20 minutes with 10 minutes for discussion. Ideas workshop sessions will be 10 minutes with 5 minutes for questions/comments. The working language of the conference will be English.
If you have any questions about this call please contact John Canning J.Canning@soton.ac.uk
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Start Date: 2012-07-05
Last Day: 2012-07-06
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 2012-01-09
Contact Person: Sue Nash
Email: llas@soton.ac.uk
Address:
John McIntyre Conference Centre, Pollock Halls, 18 Holyrood Park Road, Edinburgh, EH16 5AY, United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)23 8059 4814
Fax: +44 (0)23 8059 4815
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