The 3rd English as a Lingua Franca Conference (May 2010)

The Third International Conference of English as a Lingua Franca
University of Vienna, 22^nd -25^th May, 2010

Richard is giving a paper at this event with his Greek colleagues Nicos Sifakis and Vally Lytra as follows:

Sifakis, N., Lytra, V. and Fay, R. (forthcoming, 2010). English as a lingua franca in an increasingly post-EFL era: The case of English in the Greek state education curriculum. Paper (to be) presented at the Third International Conference on English as a Lingua Franca, hosted by the University of Vienna, 22^nd – 25^th May 2010, Vienna, Austria.

This builds on the previous paper given at the 2^nd ELF conference as follows:

Sifakis, N. and Fay, R. (2009). Integrating an ELF pedagogy in a changing world: The case of Greek state schooling. Paper presented at The Second International Conference of English as a Lingua Franca, University of Southampton, 6^th -8^th April 2009, Southampton, UK.

Conference details

This third international conference on English as a Lingua Franca is a response to the increasing interest and research activity in this field and follows on from previous successful conferences in Helsinki in 2008 and Southampton in 2009.

 The programme is designed to further maximum interaction and focused discussion among participants. To that end, four main themes will be given prominence:

A.     The sociolinguistics of ELF: theoretical issues arising from the study of ELF in relation to language variation, and language and identity.

B.     The methodology of ELF description: issues concerning the collection, analysis and interpretation of data.

C.     ELF and language policy: issues concerning the development of multilingualism in Europe and elsewhere.
 
D.     ELF and language education: the implications of descriptive work for the design and implementation of teaching programmes.
 
 Apart from four plenary sessions, the conference programme will consist of four colloquia, each dealing with one of these themes.

Plenary sessions
Two of these will be presentations by individual speakers:
 
*Edgar Schneider*, University of Regensburg
*Andy Kirkpatrick*, Hong Kong Institute of Education
 
The other two plenaries will consist of panels of invited speakers who have been active in ELF research, highlighting descriptive and pedagogical issues respectively.
 
Closing date for submission of proposals:  15^th November 2009

http://elfconference.univie.ac.at/

Please direct any enquiries to the conference e-mail address: elfconference@univie.ac.at

Written by: Richard Fay on 23, December 2009.