Organizer
- Department
of Applied Foreign Languages, Shu-Te University
Co-Organizers
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College of Applied Social Sciences, Shu-Te University
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College of Management, Shu-Te University
- The London
Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Taiwan Office
Venue
Shu-Te University,
Kaohsiung County, Taiwan
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INTRODUCTION
It is worth noting that the
teaching and learning of English as a Foreign Language and English
as a Second Language are not exclusively within the realm of English
studies alone. It bounders with other disciplines as well paving the
way for the cross-fertilization of ideologies, perspectives, and
paradigms meant to enrich how we understand and practice EFL/ESL
learning and teaching.
The Organizing Committee of the 2007
International Conference on Foreign Language Teaching and Learning
is proud to put together a venue for inter-disciplinary perspectives
and ideologies to come together in an atmosphere of openness and
friendly discussion and even debate with the goal of understanding
the processes that surround students' and teachers' experiences of
learning and teaching EFL/ESL.
Specifically, the goal of the
conference is to allow scholars from disciplines other than English
studies to have a voice. Moreover, it envisions fruitful dialogue
among disciplines with the aim of explicating the impact of EFL/ESL
to the teaching and learning process. It is important to determine
how other allied disciplines such as applied and theoretical
linguistics, education, psychology, and information technology to
name a few, regard EFL/ESL teaching and learning. Provocatively, it
is equally important to determine how other disciplines such as
business, history, political science, and even philosophy, again to
name a few, regard EFL/ESL teaching and learning.
Ultimately,
it is important to step outside the perspectives, ideologies, and
educational training that one has grown accustomed to. It is by
stepping out of one's academic stronghold, held suppositions, and
prejudices that we all may realize a common thread that unites
disciplines into an interdisciplinary and even multidisciplinary
mold. If realizing such a mold is failed project to begin with then
it is always plausible to conclude that EFL/ESL teaching and
learning truly thrives in the flowering of disparities.
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SUBTHEMES AND TOPICS
A. Interdisciplinary
Perspectives on EFL/ESL Teaching
Four skills (reading,
speaking, listening, and writing), vocabulary, phonics, syntax,
semantics, pragmatics, idioms,
cross-cultural understanding,
translation, interpretation, alternative approaches to teaching
ESL/EFL,
curriculum development, online and multimedia teaching,
alternative teaching methods and approaches
B. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on
EFL/ESL Learning
student motivation, learning
strategies, computer assisted language learning (CALL), language
learning theories
(sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, etc.),
attitudes toward languages
C. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on
EFL/ESL Assessment and Evaluation
Test preparation
(GEPT, LCCI, TOEIC, TOFEL, etc), standardized testing, alternative
assessment (portfolio, running records,
miscue analysis, etc.),
computerized testing, selecting and evaluation teaching/learning
materials, program evaluation
D. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on
EFL/ESL Research Approaches and
Methodologies
qualitative, quantitative, survey,
literature reviews, discourse analysis
E. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on
the Teaching and Learning of English for Specific Purposes
(ESP)
teaching content areas (social sciences,
humanities, arts, sciences, and technologies) through English,
international
development, multiculturalism and globalization
F. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on
SLA/Bilingualism
L1 and L2 relationships, infant/child
bilingualism, second/foreign language learning of older
adults,
second/foreign language among young adults, emergent
biliteracy, code-switch
G. Relevant issues on
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on EFL/ESL teaching and
learning
Student plagiarism, interlanguage, resources
management, mother tongue loss/maintenance among indigenous groups
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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
- Mr. Evan Frendo, London Chamber of Commerce
and Industry, UK
- Dr. Jill L. Lane, Research
Associate/Program Manager of Course and Curricular Development,
¡@ The Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence/ Instructional
Systems Program,
¡@ Learning and Performance Systems Department,
Pennsylvania State University, USA
- Dr. Gi-Zen Liu,
Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, National Cheng Kung
University, Taiwan
- Dr. Lindsay Miller, Department of
English and Communication, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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CALL FOR PAPERS AND SCHEDULE (updated)
| February 15, 2007 |
Final Deadline of Abstract
Submission |
| March 10, 2007 |
Notification of Acceptance |
| March 31, 2007 |
Submission of Draft |
| April 30, 2007 |
Full-Revised Paper |
| May 18-19, 2007 |
Conference |
Formats
1. The official language at the conference is
English. Please provide a short description of
yourself.
2. Please use the attached form when sending
in your abstracts.
¡@Abstracts should not exceed 300 words.
Please use 12-point, Times New Roman or other standard
fonts.
3. The paper draft and final manuscript should
conform to the guide stipulated in the
¡@American Psychology
Association Style Manual (APA 5.0).
4. The length of
the manuscript, including bibliography and appendices, should not
exceed 10,000 words.
¡@Each paper is intended for a 20-minute
presentation and a 10-minute discussion session. |
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GRADUATE STUDENT PAPERS
Graduate students studying in education,
linguistics, applied linguistics (including Chinese, English, and
foreign languages), English, English education, and other related
fields are encouraged to submit their papers to the Conference. The
review committee will select one to three best graduate student
papers and give awards. To be eligible for this award, you must be a
graduate student enrolled in a Taiwan 's university recognized by
the Ministry of Education at the time of proposal submission. If you
wish to compete for this award, please include a photocopy of your
most current student ID along with your proposal. |