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2018-03-26
2018 International Conference on Applied Linguistics & Language Teaching (ALLT) Call for Participation

2018 International Conference on

Applied Linguistics & Language Teaching (ALLT)

Call for Participation

 

April 20-21, 2018

National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan

 

Conference Theme:

Meeting the New Demands of Second Language Education: Research Innovations in Professional Development, Technology, and Literacy

                 

Registration deadline for participantsextended to March 30, 2018

Website (registration)http://alltntust.wixsite.com/2018allt

 

The biennial ALLT conference brings together researchers and practitioners all over the world to share their latest research findings and applications to the field of applied linguistics and language teaching. Through exploring and exchanging ideas among contributors, this conference aims to present research state of the art in updated theories, advanced analysis, and teaching insights that connect the empirical research to the practical. This conference also proposes to inform frontline teachers of cutting-edge approaches as well as the fundamentals of language acquisition in the classroom so as to provide proper and timely scaffolds to equip learners with language and literacy competencies, and more important, learning abilities required for the future challenges. For 2018 ALLT, topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:

 

l   Second/foreign language learning strategies revisited

l   Technology enhanced language learning: CALL, MALL, and gamification

l   Psychometric applications in language acquisition and assessment

l   Problem-based approaches to literacy instruction

l   Research in multimodal language instruction

l   Language, culture, and socialization

l   Teacher identity and cognition

l   Translation and interpretation

l   Issues in EMI, CLIL, and ESP

l   Corpus linguistics

l   Curriculum design

Keynote speakers (in alphabetical order):

  1. Xuesong (Andy) Gao, Ph.D. (The University of New South Wales, Australia)
  2. Richard G. Kern, Ph.D. (The University of California, Berkeley, USA)
  3. Stephen D. Krashen, Ph.D. (Professor Emeritus at University of Southern California, USA)

 

 

Featured Speakers (in alphabetical order):

  1. Beniko Mason, Ph.D. (University Junior College, Japan)

 

  1. Mirosław Pawlak, Ph.D. (Adam Mickiewicz University, Kalisz, Poland; State University of Applied Sciences, Konin,  Poland)

 

Registration Fee (online):</