JALTCALL 2008 Annual Conference, 31 May - 1 June, 2008

February 26, 2008

JALTCALL 2008 Conference

New Frontiers in CALL: Negotiating Diversity

For further information, please check the JALTCALL Website at
http://www.jaltcall.org, or email jc2008@jaltcall.org.

Venue and Dates:

* Saturday, 31st May - Sunday, 1st June, 2008
* Faculty of Foreign Languages and Asian Studies
Nagoya University of Commerce & Business
4-4 Sagamine, Komenoki-cho, Nisshin-shi, Aichi-ken, 470-0193 Japan

Keynote Speaker:

* Phil Hubbard, Ph.D.
Director, English for Foreign Students
Senior Lecturer in Linguistics, Stanford University, USA

Plenary Speaker:

* Gavin Dudeney
Project Director, The Consultants-E
* The Internet and the Language Classroom (Cambridge University Press, 2000)
* How to Teach English with Technology (Longman, 2007)

Important Dates:

* Deadline for submission of proposals: February 15, 2008
* Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2008
* Details of preliminary schedule: March 30, 2008

Presentations may include the following areas:

* The impact of new and emerging CALL technologies
* Relationships between CALL and other disciplines, languages or traditions
* Connections between CALL in presence-based, online, blended and
virtual learning environments
* Discussion of the future directions/frontiers of CALL-based
teaching and research
* A focus on the frontier between CALL and theories of Second
Language Language Acquisition

Note that the above list is intended to be representative rather than
conclusive, so different perspectives on the conference theme are
encouraged. Submissions that do not deal directly with the conference
theme are also most welcome, provided they demonstrate a sufficient
level of innovation, quality of research, or suggestions for
improvement of the field. Proposals are encouraged in either English
or Japanese.

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