SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS: IAWE 2010
16th Annual Conference of the International Association for World Englishes
Date: 25-July-2010 – 27-July-2010
Location: Simon Fraser University Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue
Contact Person: Suzanne K. Hilgendorf
Meeting Email: iawe2010@sfu.ca
Web Site
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Tagged global english, Intercultural, TESOL, world englishes
Elsewhere in this LTE blog, the long-standing links between Manchester’s MA TESOL programme and the Hellenic Open University’s comparable programme have been mentioned. The HOU TESOL team have now launched their online journal celebrating the contributions being made by their students, tutors, and collaborators.
Check out the journal at:
Quite a bit is in Greek but by no means all of it 
In the upcoming Issue 2, I will have a contribution (based on a paper I gave at the HOU conference in May 2009). So will ex-LTE colleague Mike Beaumont
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Javier, E. (2010). ‘Foreign-ness’, Race and the Native Speaker. In D. Nunan, D. and J. Choi (eds.), Language and culture: Reflective narratives and the emergence of identity. Routledge.
LTE’s Julian Edge also has a chapter in this volume:
Edge, J. (2010). Elaborating the monolingual deficit. In D. Nunan, D. and J. Choi (eds.), Language and culture: Reflective narratives and the emergence of identity. Routledge.
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Tagged identity, Intercultural, narrative, TESOL
http://www.tesol.org/s_tesol/docs/TQCallforAbstractsSept.pdf
Some of LTE”s narrativists have submitted proposals for this special issue.
For example, Richard Fay, Tanya Halldorsdottir, Eljee Javier, Tzu-Hsuan Liu, and Xiaowei Zhou.
More information on these proposals shortly.
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The Third International Conference of English as a Lingua Franca
University of Vienna, 22nd -25th 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, 22nd – 25th May 2010, Vienna, Austria.
This builds on the previous paper given at the 2nd 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, 6th -8th 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: 15th November 2009
http://elfconference.univie.ac.at/
Please direct any enquiries to the conference e-mail address: elfconference@univie.ac.at
People may find this resource of some use: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/al/research/collect/elt_archive/catalogue
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For those of you who are not aware of it and for those who were and may have forgotten, Cardiff Online is a good resource of materials and discussions from the recent IATEFL Conference.
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Gary is attending the IATEFL Slovenia Conference:
Gary’s ppts:
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Educational Research Symposium
Dubai Men’s College
Thursday, November 13, 2008
TESOL Arabia in collaboration with Dubai Men’s College is hosting a one-day event on Educational Research in the UAE. In meeting with new national initiatives, the intent of the event is to get teaching professionals in the region interested in research and assist them in their research endeavors. Plenary and parallel sessions will be conducted by well known figures in the field from the region and abroad.
Opening Plenary
Teacher Research: Means and Ends
Julian Edge, University of Manchester, UK
Inside our broad theme of Educational Research, I will focus on Teacher Research. I want to explore the following thoughts:
<!–[if !supportLists]–>1. <!–[endif]–>Some types of research can be done only by insiders; either by them, or not at all.
<!–[if !supportLists]–>2. <!–[endif]–>Research can be either descriptive (This is the way the world is) or interventionist (an attempt to make things better).
<!–[if !supportLists]–>3. <!–[endif]–>Statements about teaching that are not useful in practice are not “OK in theory,” either.
<!–[if !supportLists]–>4. <!–[endif]–>We do not work in a world of theory/application. We need to develop a discourse of exploration/articulation.
<!–[if !supportLists]–>5. <!–[endif]–>The important question is not, ‘Does it work?’, but ‘What can I learn from this?’
<!–[if !supportLists]–>6. <!–[endif]–>Our research goal may not be theory at all, but theorising.
Whilst it hardly seems that the last IATEFL Conference has finished, the call for proposals for the next one has gone out and the deadline is 22 September. Check out the web pages at: http://www.iatefl.org/content/conferences/index.php. Here you can also find information about how you might get yourself sponsored to attend the conference.
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