Focus on the learner

Faculty of Philology, State University of Applied Sciences, Konin, Poland,

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Department of English Studies, Faculty of Pedagogy and Fine Arts, Adam Mickiewicz University, Kalisz, Poland

Focus on the learner: Contributions of individual differences to second language learning and teaching

Konin, October 17th-19th, 2016

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PL-CALL 2016: CALL for mobility

PL-CALL 2016: CALL for mobility

CALL FOR PAPERS

After two very successful and intellectually stimulating PL-CALL conferences (2013, Warsaw; 2014, Warsaw) and the PL-CALL day (P L-CALL Between in 2015, Kraków), we are going to convene for the fourth time, on 2 -3 June 2016 in Kraków.
The main theme of our 2016 conference is CALL for mobility , which is self-explanatory in today's world, where everything, including language learning, is increasingly mobilized.
We would like to invite you to submit a paper proposal for the conference.

Suggested research and academic practice areas:
• Mobile Assisted Language Learning (MALL)
• gamification in language learning
• designing mobile apps for language learning
• virtual student mobility / intercultural online exchanges
(telecollaboration)
• computer-assisted activities stimulating intellectual agility: critical
thinking, multiliteracies, etc.
• technology-enhanced explorations of fandoms and other territories
• (broadly understood) mobility in teacher training and translator
education

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NBR 2016 conference

The FIPLV Nordic-Baltic Region is pleased to announce NBR 2016 conference hosted by Estonian Association of Foreign Language (the EATFL) in Tallinn, Estonia. In 2012 EAFLT joined the FIPLV regional organization Nordic- Baltic Region (the NBR), a year later the EAFLT became a member of the FIPLV (the Fédération Internationale des Professeurs de Langues Vivantes).

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Sprak sa in i Norden - Call for Papers

Each year the Swedish Language Teachers’ Association arranges a conference, most recently Uppdrag sprak (Mission: Language) in Uppsala. In 2016 we are going Nordic. In collaboration with the language teachers’ associations of the Nordic countries and other partners we invite you to the conference:

Sprak sa in i Norden/ Languages Go Far in the North,18-19 April 2016, Stockholm

The aims and purpose of the conference are as follows:

. To raise the status of languages in the Nordic countries and increase public awareness about the importance and benefits of language skills in each country.

. To promote a Nordic spirit of cultural and linguistic community.

. To spread knowledge of the collaboration between the Nordic countries, and of the goals and efforts of the Nordic council.

. To increase knowledge and awareness of the importance of multilingualism for  cognitive skills, economic growth and trade, mobility on the labour market,  tolerance and democracy, integration, research, and international cooperation.  

. To build and strengthen Nordic networks on several levels: teachers, research, labour unions, minority languages, etc.

. To offer qualitative and versatile in-service training for language teachers.

. To offer an opportunity to interact: to compare conditions and learn from each other regarding languages from the neighbouring countries, heritage-language teaching, school languages, multilingualism and validation, as well as steering documents, in-service training, languages offered, core curricula, ICT, internationalization, language methodology, and much more.

The conference will offer lectures in a number of different strands: a general strand, streams for research, labour unions, Nordic languages, immigrant languages, heritage languages, English, German, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, and Italian.
 
Deadline for paper proposals is September 1st 2015 by e-mail to spraksaininorden@spraklararna.se. Papers shall be written in the language to be used in the lecture. We reserve the right of selection.

Deadline for submissions to the conference publication is April 1st 2016 by e- mail to spraksaininorden@spraklararna.se.