Category: CFP

CFP RESEARCH CHALLENGES IN CALL

The editor, associate editors and editorial board of Computer Assisted Language Learning (Taylor and Francis) extend a cordial invitation to attend our  XVIth International CALL Research Conference at Universiteit Antwerpen (Antwerp, Belgium), 7-9 July 2014.

RESEARCH CHALLENGES IN CALL

The starting points for this conference are the 12 challenges Jozef Colpaert recently identified and presented at WorldCALL 2013 in Glasgow, and which he classified into three categories:

contextual (academic meritocracy, academic value of CALL, myths/hypes and broad-public perception), methodological (design, replication, slow research and transdisciplinarity), and epistemological (open, psychological, smart and sustainable aspects).

Our three proposed session types reflect these categories:

-Keynote speakers – Piet Desmet (K.U. Leuven University) and Bryan Smith (Arizona State University) – will tackle the contextual challenges in thought-provoking plenary sessions.

-Research papers  should  focus on your current research and should discuss the methodological challenges you encounter. Two selected research papers will be awarded as plenary presentations.

-Pre- and post-conference surveys, polls, group discussions and panels will focus on epistemological challenges we define together. If we want academic evaluation to become more objective, fair and justifiable, then epistemological challenges need to be defined clearly in advance. We would like this conference to be a catalyst for discussions regarding the question: What priority research topics can be defined by our community?  This should lead to a document that can be used by all CALLers worldwide for supporting their research proposals.

Deadline for submissions is 30 November 2013. Please send your abstract (300 words) and biodata (100 words) to ann.aerts@uantwerpen.be.

Participants have the opportunity to combine the CALL conference with a Summer School in Design-Based Research (by Sven De Maeyer and Vincent Donche) or a Master Class in Educational Engineering (by Jozef Colpaert). Both events will be held from 30 June until 4 July. Further information will follow soon on the conference website www.antwerpcall.be.

CFP American Association for Corpus Linguistics AACL 2014

The American Association for Corpus Linguistics (AACL) call for papers for the next conference September 26-28, 2014, in Flagstaff, AZ.

Abstracts
Faculty, graduate students, and independent scholars are invited to submit abstracts for 25-minute papers (20 minute presentation + 5 minutes for questions) on any aspect of corpus linguistics. Abstracts will undergo anonymous review.

Papers are welcome from a range of subfields:

Tools and methods (corpus creation, corpus annotation, tagging and parsing, visualization of large data sets, open source corpora (philosophy and practice), software development);
Linguistic analyses of corpora as they relate to language use (register/genre as well as lexical and grammatical variation, language varieties, parallel corpora, historical change, lexicography);
Application (the use of corpora in language teaching and learning).

Abstract details: Submit abstracts to aacl@nau.edu by February 10, 2014.

Cover page: Author(s) name(s); Affiliation; Contact information; Paper title; Category (see above)
Abstract page: Paper title; Abstract (max. 250 words)
Format: MS Word or PDF (the latter is necessary if the abstract contains specialized fonts)

Important dates
February 10: Deadline for submission of abstracts
April 11: Notification of decisions on abstracts
September 26-28: Conference

CFP American Association for Corpus Linguistics AACL 2014

The American Association for Corpus Linguistics (AACL) call for papers for the next conference September 26-28, 2014, in Flagstaff, AZ.

Abstracts
Faculty, graduate students, and independent scholars are invited to submit abstracts for 25-minute papers (20 minute presentation + 5 minutes for questions) on any aspect of corpus linguistics. Abstracts will undergo anonymous review.

Papers are welcome from a range of subfields:

Tools and methods (corpus creation, corpus annotation, tagging and parsing, visualization of large data sets, open source corpora (philosophy and practice), software development);
Linguistic analyses of corpora as they relate to language use (register/genre as well as lexical and grammatical variation, language varieties, parallel corpora, historical change, lexicography);
Application (the use of corpora in language teaching and learning).

Abstract details: Submit abstracts to aacl@nau.edu by February 10, 2014.

Cover page: Author(s) name(s); Affiliation; Contact information; Paper title; Category (see above)
Abstract page: Paper title; Abstract (max. 250 words)
Format: MS Word or PDF (the latter is necessary if the abstract contains specialized fonts)

Important dates
February 10: Deadline for submission of abstracts
April 11: Notification of decisions on abstracts
September 26-28: Conference

CFP AELFE 2014 : Academic communication in a digital age

12-14 June 2014, Stockholm University

This conference will draw connections between new publication practices, changing language uses, and new genres of academic communication. Today academics are under increasing pressure to disseminate their research results through high-impact outlets such as peer-reviewed journals. At the same time, new channels for knowledge transmission and exchange have emerged, often resorting to multimodal modes, and new genres have appeared in academic publishing domains. In the context of growing demands for accountability, transparency, and open access to data and publications, digital media offer improved ways of access to e-publications and alternative ways to fast publicity and open discussion. For international research communities and top-prestige publications, English takes the lion’s share. For outreach, local languages seem to be the most appropriate. Yet digital media mixes these assumptions, because local languages are often used along with English in various ways. Digital media also stir traditional assumptions about language editing and language norms in English.

 Confirmed plenary speakers are:

 Anna Mauranen, “Genre and register in research blogging”

 Gibson Ferguson, “On linguistic justice in a digital age: the case of English in academia”

 Carmen Pérez-Llantada, “Research genres and the growth of techno-dependency: intersections and implications”
We invite contributions exploring different aspects of academic communication in a digital age in order to acquire a better understanding of language uses in the academy and the role of LSP professionals in this changing sociopolitical context. This year’s conference will focus exclusively on the announced theme and will not include parallel sessions. A number of selected conference papers will be published in a peer-reviewed outlet. In addition, a number of poster presentations related to the traditional AELFE panels will be considered for inclusion in the conference programme. All conference presentations will be invited for publication in online proceedings edited by the conference organisers.

 Please email your proposal (350 words) specifying whether it is a paper presentation or a poster to the Organising committee at aelfe2014@english.su.se

CFP AELFE 2014 : Academic communication in a digital age

12-14 June 2014, Stockholm University

This conference will draw connections between new publication practices, changing language uses, and new genres of academic communication. Today academics are under increasing pressure to disseminate their research results through high-impact outlets such as peer-reviewed journals. At the same time, new channels for knowledge transmission and exchange have emerged, often resorting to multimodal modes, and new genres have appeared in academic publishing domains. In the context of growing demands for accountability, transparency, and open access to data and publications, digital media offer improved ways of access to e-publications and alternative ways to fast publicity and open discussion. For international research communities and top-prestige publications, English takes the lion’s share. For outreach, local languages seem to be the most appropriate. Yet digital media mixes these assumptions, because local languages are often used along with English in various ways. Digital media also stir traditional assumptions about language editing and language norms in English.

 Confirmed plenary speakers are:

 Anna Mauranen, “Genre and register in research blogging”

 Gibson Ferguson, “On linguistic justice in a digital age: the case of English in academia”

 Carmen Pérez-Llantada, “Research genres and the growth of techno-dependency: intersections and implications”
We invite contributions exploring different aspects of academic communication in a digital age in order to acquire a better understanding of language uses in the academy and the role of LSP professionals in this changing sociopolitical context. This year’s conference will focus exclusively on the announced theme and will not include parallel sessions. A number of selected conference papers will be published in a peer-reviewed outlet. In addition, a number of poster presentations related to the traditional AELFE panels will be considered for inclusion in the conference programme. All conference presentations will be invited for publication in online proceedings edited by the conference organisers.

 Please email your proposal (350 words) specifying whether it is a paper presentation or a poster to the Organising committee at aelfe2014@english.su.se