You may be interested in publishing your dissertation has Dylan has done here: http://www.asian-efl-journal.com/thesis.php
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A series of teacher development events have been organised by Cambridge ESOL and the one in Manchester is on 16th November that may be of interest. See below and attached.
Cross-Cultural Pragmatics at a Crossroads II: Linguistic and Cultural Representations across Media
Wednesday 29 June-Friday 1 July 2011, University of East Anglia, Norwich UK,
Plenary speakers
Juliane House (Hamburg University, Germany)
Gunther Kress (University of London. UK)
Michel Marcoccia (Troyes University of Technology, France)
Jeremy Munday (University of Leeds, UK)
Luis Pérez-González (University of Manchester, UK)
Miranda Stewart (Hellenic American University, Athens, Greece)
!!! Registration information now available https://www.uea.ac.uk/ccp2
!!! Abstracts to http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/CCPII 2011 by 15 Nov 2010 (see call for paper below) !!!
CALL FOR PAPERS
This conference is the second in a series launched in 2006 with “Cross-cultural Pragmatics at a Crossroads: Speech Frames and Cultural Perceptions” at the University of East Anglia, and the fourth in a sequence of related events including “Les enjeux de la communication interculturelle” in Montpellier (France) (Université Paul Valéry) in 2007 and “Cross-culturally speaking, speaking cross-culturally” in Sydney (Australia) in 2009 (Macquarie University).
Like its 2006 forerunner, this second event will be interdisciplinary. It aims to bring together, under the umbrella of cross-cultural pragmatics, researchers from domains which are particularly sensitive to cross-cultural issues, to promote the cross-fertilization of ideas and theoretical approaches, and explore key concerns associated with communication across language and culture boundaries.
The theme of this second conference is ‘Linguistic and Cultural Representations across Media’, understood broadly as relating to the cross-over of language, mediation activities and media in a multilingual framework. It is intended to encompass communication and information flows in a range of contexts (e.g. the press, television and computer games, cinema, the theatre, museums, and the world wide web or other information channels); and to explore a range of activities central to the sharing of information and knowledge across languages and cultures in a global context: news transfer,multimedia and screen translation (e.g. subtitling, dubbing, etc.), stage translation and adaptation, the provision of multilingual information (e.g. in museums, trade fairs, etc.).
Questions that the conference will aim to explore across media under the theme of linguistic and cultural representations include:
· Representations and the perpetuation of cultural a-priori and/or conflict
· Representations as a vehicle promoting cross-cultural and cross-linguistic sensitivity
· Representations as a locus for (re)-negotiations of individual and group identities
· Representations as agents of hybridization of communicative practices
· Responses to representations
· Shifts in response paradigms
Research papers focusing on the little explored domain of audience reception will be particularly welcome.
The general framework for the conference will be provided by plenary papers delivered by distinguished scholars representing different languages and complementary perspectives: intercultural communication, cross-cultural pragmatics, discourse studies (including media discourse), translation studies (including screen translation and theatre adaptation), with application to English as a lingua franca, French, German, Spanish inter alia.
The conference will focus principally, but not exclusively, on European languages, still unevenly represented in cross-cultural pragmatics. It will, by virtue of its themes and of the inbuilt interdisciplinarity of cross-cultural pragmatics generally, be informed by different methodological paradigms (e.g. CA, interactional discourse analysis, discourse analysis, cross- and intercultural pragmatics, politeness theory, psycholinguistics). Proposals, for individual papers (20 minutes) or proposer-led panels on a particular theme (90 to 150 minutes), will be expected clearly to identify their theoretical frame(s) of reference and methodological approach.
Abstract deadline: 15 November 2010
Language: English, French or Spanish
Proposal: 300-word anonymous abstract (600 words for panels) to be submitted through the Linguist List at http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/CCPII 2011
Principal Organisers: Dr Marie-Noëlle Guillot (m.guillot@uea.ac.uk) and Dr Roger Baines (r.w.baines@uea.ac.uk)
School of Language and Communication Studies
University of East Anglia
Norwich
NR4 7TJ
United Kingdom
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Gary alerts us to this soon upcoming event:
http://www.tesol.org/s_tesol/sec_document.asp?CID=1426&DID=13353#more
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Tagged developing researcher competence, LTE at Manchester, MA TESOL
NEW ENGLISH PROFILE JOURNAL: FREE AND ONLINE NOW
We are delighted to announce the publication of the first issue of the free online ‘English Profile Journal’ by Cambridge University Press. This brand new journal is an initiative that will disseminate cutting-edge research emerging out of the English Profile program.
Full details of the journal, including how to submit a paper and register for content updates, can be found here (http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=EPJ)
Abstracts from the Journal are also available on the English Profile website with links through to the articles themselves.
The English Profile Journal is edited by Professor Michael McCarthy, University of Nottingham, and Professor John Hawkins, director of the University of Cambridge’s Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics. The editors are assisted by an international editorial board consisting of Dr Anthony Green of the University of Bedfordshire (UK), Professor Miyoko Kobayashi of Kumamoto University (Japan), Dr Igor Lakic of the University of Montenegro (Montenegro), Professor Francisco Gomes de Matos of the Federal University of Pernambuco (Brazil), Professor Barry O’Sullivan of Roehampton University (UK), Professor Randi Reppen of Northern Arizona University (USA) , Professor Paul Seedhouse of Newcastle University (UK), Dr Carmen Gregori Signes of the University of Valencia (Spain), Professor Diana Slade of the University of Technology in Sydney (Australia) and Professor Martin Warren of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Hong Kong).
We hope you enjoy using this new resource.
Best wishes,
Melissa Good
Senior Development Editor,
English Profile
Cambridge University Press
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Two talks of interest to ELT practitioners hosted by British Council on their Isle in Second Life …
We are pleased to announce that two talks by David Crystal will be retransmitted live to people on the British Council Isle in Second Life:
1) Speaking Shakespeare: Fact and Fiction
A light-hearted romp through Shakespeare
by Prof. David Crystal and Hilary Crystal
WHEN: Monday, July 12, 2010 at 5.00pm UK time (see http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/)
WHERE: British Council Isle
http://slurl.com/secondlife/British%20Council%20Isle/213/223/30
2)Myths and realities of English on the Internet
by Prof. David Crystal
The internet, the language linker par excellence, offers ELT fresh opportunities and challenges, but to respond to these requires an understanding of how language is evolving in electronic media. The talk examines some of the myths about what is happening to English in electronic communication, and discusses research realities.
WHEN: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 at 9am UK time (see http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/)
WHERE: British Council Isle http://slurl.com/secondlife/British%20Council%20Isle/213/223/30
PARTICIPATION:
To participate in the event, join us at the British Council Isle in Second Life. Anybody (over 18) can access the Main Grid island by downloading the Second Life software from www.secondlife.com Creating an avatar is free and takes 15 minutes. Once you’ve registered and downloaded the software, teleport directly to the event by clicking on the following link in your browser: http://tinyurl.com/3xnrjo2
HOSTS and ORGANISERS:
David Crystal will be speaking live at ETAI’s 6th International conference, Linking Through Language (see http://tinyurl.com/24z2vho > for more information)
Nicola Crowley, British Council Israel (Second Life avatar name: Nic Streusel)
Dr. Hanan Gazit,MetaverSense CEO (Second Life avatar name: Vrider Dancer)
For those not able to attend one of these events, here is a video of this year’s graduation ceremony. It’s rather long, but there are quite a lot of students in Education:
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It appears to be European Year of Creativity. Set your creative juices flowing by doing this survey: http://www.etwinning.net/en/pub/news/news/what_does_creativity_mean_to_y.htm
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This is a website particularly aimed at people who work at teaching languages in higher education in the UK. These days this inevitably involves discussions about the use of technology. They also run useful conferences and keep a store of materials online
Hi All, welcome to the beginning of our new academic year at Manchester, we’ve been a bit quiet during the summer, but will start to get things going from now on. We look forward to hearing news from others as well.
Gary
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