LIF2014 - Language in Focus Conference Call
Cem Can
FIRST CIRCULAR
ELT Department of Faculty of Education,
Çukurova Üniversitesi, Adana, Turkey
is happy to announce
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON APPLIED LINGUISTICS
http://egitim.cu.edu.tr/lif2014
Language in Focus
Exploring the challenges and opportunities in Linguistics and English Language Teaching (ELT)
Antalya, Turkey,
March 27-29, 2014
The conference is dedicated to academics and university lecturers, representatives of central and local educational authorities, non-governmental organizations and school teachers. The event is a great occasion for meeting experts in a varied areas of Linguistics and ELT.
PLENARY SPEAKERS (in alphabetical order)
· Mirosław Pawlak, Professor of Applied Linguistics
The State School of Higher Professional Education in Konin, Poland
· David Singleton, Professor of Applied Linguistics
Dublin Trinity College, Ireland
· Richard Smith, Professor of Applied Linguistics
University of Warwick, UK
· Mike Sharwood Smith, Professor of Applied Linguistics
Professor Emeritus, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland UK.
Honorary Professorial Fellow, Edinburgh University, Scotland UK.
Professor, English Institute, Academy of Social Sciences (SAN), Warsaw, Poland.
· Birsen Tütüniş, Professor of English Language Teaching
İstanbul Aydın University, İstanbul, Turkey
CONFERENCE THEME
Applied Linguistics is a field of academic enquiry that deals with the theoretical and empirical investigation of real issues in which LANGUAGE IS IN FOCUS. These issues range from aspects of linguistics, first or second language acquisition, literacy, language disorders, foreign language learning/ teaching, bilingual education/CLIL, multilingualism over interactional issues of interpersonal and intercultural communication to language variation, linguistic discrimination, language policy etc.
New approaches, new theoretical concepts and new methods are a prerequisite for dealing with particular educational issues, therefore CHALLENGE and OPPORTUNITIES have become the main conference theme. Hence, LIF2014 conference has been designed as a forum of interdisciplinary academic dialogue on various aspects of Applied Linguistics including General Linguistics and ELT. More specifically, the papers are expected to address the following intersections:
· ELT Methodology and classroom applications
· Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)
· SLA / ELT focused theories and research (productive and receptive skills, linguistic and communicative competences, code-switching, classroom interaction analysis, assessment and evaluation)
· Psychological and psycholinguistic perspectives in SLA / ELT (attitudinal patterns, motivation, individual learner differences, learning strategies, learner autonomy)
· Corpus Linguistics and Learner Corpora
· Syntax and interfaces with morphology and semantics
· Lexical processing
· Phonological processing
· Cross-linguistic influences
· Discourse analysis
· Sociolinguistic theories and research (quantitative and qualitative approaches to the
study of language, ethnographic and anthropological approaches to the study of language; language contact)
· Socio-cultural considerations (intercultural competence development, multiculturalism in theory and practice, ethnic/language minority classrooms)
· Multilingualism / bilingualism
· Educational language policies
· Translation and interpreting
However, the submission of other topics for consideration is welcome and we also encourage sessions within and across a variety of disciplines and fields related to Applied Linguistics and Teaching Foreign Languages. Proposals for original and previously unpublished papers (20 minutes for the presentation and 10 minutes for questions) or workshops (45 minutes) reporting on research related to the theme of the conference, or posters regarding the issues are welcome for presentation at the conference.
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION
Abstracts of papers, workshops or posters in the range of 200-250 words should be send via the conference website http://egitim.cu.edu.tr/lif2014 by November 1, 2013. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by November 15th, 2013. Accepted presentations will be published in an edited book by Cambridge Scholars, the UK.
REGISTRATION
All the participants are requested submit their registration form via the conference website by December 15th, 2013. The fee, which covers registration fee, conference materials, accommodation in a 5* hotel for three nights, welcome cocktail, lunches and refreshments, conference dinner, and the cost of subsequent publication is: paper / workshop / poster and participation - € 420 for regular registration / € 400 for early registration (deadline: until December 15, 2013)
CONFERENCE VENUE
WOW Topkapı Palace Hotel, Kundu – Antalya, Turkish Riviera of Turkey. The conference fee includes all-inclusive accommodation at the hotel during conference. This five star hotel reflects the ages of great Ottoman architecture allowing you to make a journey through the history. You can be assured that WOW Topkapı Palace (inspired by the great Topkapı Palace in İstanbul) will let you feel those emotions. When you enter Topkapı Palace, you will stay in the Harem, have your food from the great Palace Kitchens and Hagia Irini, drink your tasteful wine at the Justice Tower, taste your delicious Turkish desert flavored with rosewater at Mecidiye Chalet. Topkapı Palace offers you a complete conference package with its Turkish style restaurants, bars, pools, beach, spa and fitness center in max all-inclusive concept just like holiday guests.
FURTHER INFORMATION
Queries regarding the event can be sent to lif...@egitim.cu.edu.tr
All those wishing to present papers, posters, prepare a workshop or just to attend presentations are welcome to participate in the conference.
With best regards,
Conference Organisers: (in alphabetical order)
Cem Can
Jülide İnözü
Katarzyna Papaja
Hatice Sofu
Conference website http://egitim.cu.edu.tr/lif2014
Conference e-mail: lif...@egitim.cu.edu.tr