Theme: "Applied Linguistics: Global and Local"

9 - 11 September 2010 University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland

BAAL 2010 will be held at the University of Aberdeen. The conference will be organised by the School of Language and Literature and the Centre for Linguistic Research.

The University campus is located close to the city centre in the historic Village of Old Aberdeen and within easy reach of railway and bus stations. Aberdeen airport is served by regular flights with low-cost airlines from cities across the British Isles and Europe.

Aberdeen, Scotland's third city, is known by many names: the granite city, the oil capital of Europe, and the silver city by the golden sands, all of these encapsulating various aspects of the city. Aberdeen has two universities, a 5 star Maritime Museum, a variety of restaurants, coffee shops, tea rooms, and a wide range of cultural, entertainment, and shopping attractions. The Aberdeen- Grampian area boasts dozens of castles, coastal roads, golf courses and plenty of cultural attractions. We are confident that it will provide an inspiring conference experience too.

PLENARY SPEAKERS: Bonny Norton (University of British Columbia) Tove Skutnabb-Kangas (University of Roskilde) Wilson McLeod (University of Edinburgh) Alastair Pennycook (University of Technology, Sydney)

CONFERENCE ORGANISER: Robert McColl Millar (r.millar@abdn.ac.uk) School of Language and Literature Tel: +44 (0) 1224 273909 Fax: +44 (0) 1224 272624

Contact:

Robert McColl Millar r.millar@abdn.ac.uk

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43RD ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS

Theme: "Applied Linguistics: Global and Local"

9 - 11 September 2010 University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland

BAAL 2010 will be held at the University of Aberdeen. The conference will be organised by the School of Language and Literature and the Centre for Linguistic Research. The University campus is located close to the city centre in the historic Village of Old Aberdeen and within easy reach of railway and bus stations. Aberdeen airport is served by regular flights with low-cost airlines from cities across the British Isles and Europe. Aberdeen, Scotland's third city, is known by many names: the granite city, the oil capital of Europe, and the silver city by the golden sands, all of these encapsulating various aspects of the city. Aberdeen has two universities, a 5 star Maritime Museum, a variety of restaurants, coffee shops, tea rooms, and a wide range of cultural, entertainment, and shopping attractions. The Aberdeen- Grampian area boasts dozens of castles, coastal roads, golf courses and plenty of cultural attractions. We are confident that it will provide an inspiring conference experience too.

PLENARY SPEAKERS: Bonny Norton (University of British Columbia) Tove Skutnabb-Kangas (University of Roskilde) Wilson McLeod (University of Edinburgh) Alastair Pennycook (University of Technology, Sydney)

CONFERENCE ORGANISER: Robert McColl Millar (r.millar@abdn.ac.uk) School of Language and Literature Tel: +44 (0) 1224 273909 Fax: +44 (0) 1224 272624

Contact:

Robert McColl Millar r.millar@abdn.ac.uk +44 (0) 1224 273909

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ACTFL 2010 Annual Convention and World Languages Expo
November 19-21, 2010
Pre-convention Workshops – November 18, 2010
Hynes Convention Center, Boston, MA

Languages: Gateway to Global Communities

ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN is the largest global e-learning conference for the corporate and public service sectors in education and training. The annual event offers a forum for e-learning experts, experienced users, and apprentices from all over the world to exchange ideas and make contacts. Over 2000 delegates from more than 90 countries attend the conference, making ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN the most comprehensive annual meeting place for e-learning and distance education professionals. Participants of the conference are high-level decision makers from education, business and government sectors, the three areas driving e-learning adoption and innovation. The accompanying exhibition gives international providers the opportunity to demonstrate their products, tools and services.

Contact:

Katharina Götze info@online-educa.com +49 (0)30 310 18 18 ext. 0

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THE FOURTH CLS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CLaSIC 2010 : CALL FOR PAPERS

Dear Sir or Madam,

The Centre for Language Studies (CLS) of the National University of Singapore (NUS) organises a biennial international conference on foreign language teaching and learning. The conference aims at bringing together academics, researchers and professionals from Asia and beyond for a productive and rewarding exchange of insights, experiences, views and perspectives on current and future developments in foreign language teaching and learning. The last three CLaSICs met with resounding success and a highly encouraging response, attracting many participants from all over the world.

We are pleased to announce the Fourth CLS International Conference (CLaSIC 2010) to be held from 2 to 4 December 2010. The theme of the conference is:

“INDIVIDUAL CHARACTERISTICS AND SUBJECTIVE VARIABLES IN LANGUAGE LEARNING”

We would like to invite you and your colleagues to participate in this conference and to present papers on the sub-themes listed in the Call for the Papers below. We would be most grateful if you could circulate the information about the conference within your institution and enclose a PDF copy of the conference brochure for this purpose. If you require more information, please feel free to email the CLaSIC 2010 Organising Committee at clasic2010@nus.edu.sg.

Invited Keynote Speakers

We are delighted that the following four distinguished academics, all leading researchers and educators in language education and applied linguistics, will be delivering keynote lectures at CLaSIC 2010:

Dr. Karin Aguado (University of Kassel) Dr. Naoko Aoki (Osaka University) Dr. Richard Schmidt (University of Hawai’i) Dr. Minglang Zhou (University of Maryland)

Call for Papers

Over the decades, research has rejected views of learners as passive processors and highlighted instead their subject roles in learning. It is evident to researchers and practitioners that learner characteristics such as age, gender, aptitudes, motivation, beliefs, metacognition and learning strategies contribute directly or indirectly to learning processes and outcomes. In view of the vast differences between individuals, each learner biography becomes in effect an individual case study. Yet these individual characteristics and subjective variables interact with factors external to the learners, including especially the cultural background, social environment and educational context, thus underlining the fact that learners are, at the same time, social beings. In selecting this theme, CLaSIC 2010 acknowledges the undoubted importance of learners’ - and teachers’ - individual characteristics for foreign language education. It hopes to engage participants in a fruitful and rewarding discussion of these issues and to draw insightful conclusions for research and practice.

CLaSIC 2010 Organising Committee invites submissions for Paper and Poster Presentations on one of the following twelve sub-themes:

- Cognitive Factors in Language Teaching and Learning - Affect in Language Teaching and Learning - Language Learning Anxiety and Fear - Teacher/Learner Beliefs, Attitudes and Assumptions - Subjective Theories and Language Teaching and Learning - Language Learning Motivation and Motivational Strategies - Self-Concept and Self-Efficacy - Metacognition and Language Learning Strategies - Learner Characteristics and Individual Differences - Cultural and Individual Notions of Autonomy - Constructivist Approach to Language Learning - Narrative and Life Story

Presentation proposals can be submitted online at the following URL, latest by 31 May 2010: http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/cls/clasic2010/Proposal_Submission.htm

The language medium for all presentations at the conference is English.

Further information

To keep you informed of the latest update of the CLaSIC 2010, it is recommended to check the homepage on a regular basis.

CLaSIC 2010 homepage – http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/cls/clasic2010/index.htm

Information about the CLS can be found at the following URL:

CLS homepage – http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/cls/

Should you have any queries, please do not hesitate to email the Organising Committee at clasic2010@nus.edu.sg.

Thank you very much for your kind attention and assistance. We look forward to seeing you and your colleagues at CLaSIC 2010.

With warm regards, Dr Izumi Walker Chairperson CLaSIC 2010 Organising Committee

Centre for Language Studies Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences National University of Singapore

Contact:

Izumi Walker clasic2010@nus.edu.sg

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Second International Conference on Interpreting Quality

Contact:

Ángela Collados Aís ecis.granada@gmail.com

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Call for Papers - Comparative methods & analysis in the language sciences ---

JéTou is an international conference bringing together young researchers in the language sciences around a common theme. This third edition of JéTou deals with the use of comparative methods & analysis in all fields of the language sciences, including Foreign Languages Learning & Teaching.

More information can be found at http://jetou2011.free.fr/en

Contact:

Marianne Vergez-Couret jetou2011@gmail.com

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