International conference Language Skills: Traditions, Transitions & Ways Forward

Language Skills: Traditions, Transitions & Ways Forward

International conference

English Department, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland

24th - 25th September 2012

Call for papers

English Department, Maria Sklodowska Curie University in Lublin is happy to announce the first international conference  Language Skills: Traditions, Transitions & Ways Forward, which is going to take place in Lublin, Poland, from 24^th to 25th September  2012. More information about Lublin is available at www.lublin.eu/en. 

Theme

The Conference aspires to provide a forum for sharing both theoretical and empirical findings, as well as pedagogical practices related to the broad topic of the  development of language skills in second/foreign language instruction. It is hoped that the contributions will cover issues dealing with a number of research traditions and perspectives including the past (Traditions), the present (Transitions) and the future (Ways Forward) of language skills learning and teaching.

Organizers

The Conference is organized by the Methodology of Teaching English as a Foreign Language Unit of the English Institute of Maria Sklodowska Curie University in Lublin, Poland. 

The Scientific Committee

Prof. Halina Chodkiewicz - Chair

Prof. Jolanta Szpyra-Kozłowska

Prof. Henryk Kardela

Prof. Przemysław Łozowski

The Organizing Committee

Dr Magdalena Trepczyńska - Chair

Małgorzata Krzemińska-Adamek

Ewa Surdacka

Dr Marcin Smolik

Plenary speakers

The following scholars have kindly agreed to deliver plenary talks during the

Conference:

Prof. Pauline Foster (St Mary's University College Twickenham London)

Prof. Keith Johnson (Lancaster University)

Prof. Maria Dakowska (University of Warsaw)

Prof. Anna Niżegorodcew (Jagiellonian University, Kraków)

Prof. Teresa Siek-Piskozub (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)

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