CFP: 6th Conference on Intercultural Rhetoric and Discourse

Call for Abstracts

6th Conference on Intercultural Rhetoric and Discourse
Theme: Critical Discourse Analysis and Corpus-based Approaches to Research on Intercultural Rhetoric

Friday, June 11 & Saturday, June 12, 2010
Georgia State University
Sponsored by the Department of Applied Linguistics and ESL and
The Georgia State University Research Foundation

Plenary Speakers
Suresh Canagarajah, Pennsylvania State University
Ulla Connor, Indiana University‐Purdue University Indianapolis
Eric Friginal, Georgia State University
Guillaume Gentil, Carleton University

Individual papers and colloquium proposals are invited on topics including (but not limited to):

* Theoretical and empirical investigations
* Language- and culture-specific studies
* Practical applications
* Teaching and classroom practices
* Writing in school, college, and the professions

Deadline for submissions: February 28, 2010

Papers should be 20 minutes long with an additional 10 minutes for discussion. Submit an abstract of no more than 250 words and a summary of no more than 50 words, included in the body of an email. In addition, please include your name, address, institutional affiliation, phone and fax numbers, and email address.
Colloquia should be approximately 75 minutes in length with 15 minutes for questions. The 250-word abstract should state the theme and indicate contributions of each participant. Also include a 50-word summary and list of participants. In addition, please include your name, address, institutional affiliation, phone and fax numbers, and email address.

Send submissions and general correspondence to:
intrhetdisc@gmail.com

For further information, as available, please visit:
http://www2.gsu.edu/‾wwwesl/alesl/conference/overview.html

Alternately, for more information, please contact: Diane Belcher, 404-413-5194, dbelcher1@gsu.edu or Gayle Nelson, 404-413-5190, gaylenelson@gsu.edu

Symposium Update

The 2009 Symposium, held at Arizona State University on November 5-7, 2007, was a great success. It brought together about 400 participants representing 21 different countries, including: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Greece, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mauritania, Mexico, Poland, China, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

 

Photos from this year's Symposium are available at: http://flickr.com/gp/pmatsuda/218rT6.

 

The 2010 Symposium will be held on May 20-22, 2010, at Universidad de Murcia, Spain. The proposal deadline is December 15, 2009. For details, please visit: http://sslw.asu.edu/2010/.

 

I hope to see many of you in Spain!

 

Paul Kei Matsuda, Co-Founding Chair

Symposium on Second Language Writing

sslw@asu.edu | http://sslw.asu.edu/

CFP: Second Call: 4th International Writing Research Conference - Feb 17-20, 2011

Second Call for Proposals: Writing Research Across Borders II

 

George Mason University

 

February 17-20, 2011

 

Proposal Deadline May 3, 2010

 

As societies become more knowledge-intensive and communication technologies draw us more closely together, the importance of writing in economic, scientific, civic, personal, and social development becomes more apparent. Correspondingly, the imperative to conduct research on writing in schools and the workplace, in relationship to learning and development, and in all aspects of our lives has invigorated work among scholars in all regions of the world. The conference Writing Research across Borders II will provide an opportunity for researchers to share their findings and set research agendas for the coming years.

 

Continuing the success of the three previous international research conferences held at the University of California, Santa Barbara, the 2011 Writing Research Across Borders II will be held at George Mason University in the Washington D.C./Northern Virginia area.  We invite proposals that will continue to deepen the cross-disciplinary, international dialogues across the many different domains of writing research. 

 

As in past years, this conference will focus on writing development across the lifespan, including the impact of new technologies on learning to write, early acquisition of writing, writing across grade levels (K-20), writing in the disciplines and professions, and writing in the workplace or other community and institutional settings. We invite proposals presenting research in these areas. We also invite proposals on any other areas of writing use and practice, such as writing in progressive or large scale educational programs, or proposals that link writing research and policies.  We welcome papers raising methodological issues about researching writing. We invite work from any research tradition that is grounded in the tradition’s previous research and pursues the methodical gathering of qualitative or quantitative data appropriate to its claims. 

 

Proposals should identify the format preferred (panels, roundtables, individual presentations, and poster presentations). Individual or poster proposals should be a maximum of 500 words. Proposals with multiple presentations (panel and roundtable) should contain a short overview statement and then no more than 400 words per speaker. Proposals should specify the relevant research literatures, research questions, methods, data, and findings, as well as the scope and duration of the research projects.  

 

The deadline for proposals is May 3, 2010. Please submit proposals in .doc or .rtf format by email attachment to <writing@education.ucsb.edu>.  Also, be sure to include a title for your proposal and each speaker’s individual talk, as well as contact information for each individual presenter. 

 

 

Writing Research across Borders II Scientific Committee

 

 

Paula Carlino	Argentina	University of Buenos Aires
Kate Chanock	Australia	Latrobe
Luuk van Waas	Belgium	University of Antwerp
Desiree Motta-Roth	Brasil	Universidade Federal de Santa Maria
Dilamar Araujo	Brazil	Universidade Estadual do Ceará (UECE)
Angela Dionisio	Brazil	UFP, Recife
Angela Kleimann	Brazil	Unicamp-Sao Paulo
Céline Beaudet	Canada	Université de Sherbrooke
Anthony Pare	Canada	McGill University
Catherine Schryer	Canada	University of Waterloo
Graham Smart	Canada	Carleton University
Doreen Starke-Meyering	Canada	McGill University
Giovanni Parodi Sweis	Chile	Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso
Vijay Bhatia	China	City University of Hong Kong
Chen Huijun	China	China University of Geosciences
Blanca Yaneth Gonzalez Pinzon	Colombia	Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Denis Alamargot	France	University of Poitiers
Francoise Boch	France	Université Stendhal
Michel Fayol	France	University Blaise Pascal
Sylvie Plane	France	IUMF de Paris
Pietro Boscolo	Italy	University of Padua
Fatima Encinas	Mexico	Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla
Nancy Susan Keranen	Mexico	Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla
Emilia Ferreiro	Mexico	National Polytechnic Institute
Gert Rijlaarsdam	Netherlands	University of Amsterdam
Olga Dysthe	Norway	University of Bergen
Sigmund Ongstad	Norway	Oslo University College
Lilliana Tolchinsky	Spain	University of Barcelona
Magnus Gustaffson	Sweden	Chalmers University of Technology
Åsa Wengelin	Sweden	Lund University
Otto Kruse	Switzerland	Zurich University of Applied Sciences
Daniel Perrin	Switzerland	Zurich University of Applied Sciences
David Barton	UK	Lancaster University
David Galbraith	UK	University of Staffordshire
Ken Hyland	UK	University of London
Roz Ivanic	UK	Lancaster University
Gunther Kress	UK	University of London
Greg Myers	UK	Lancaster University
Brian Street	UK	Kings College-London
Mark Torrance	UK	University of Staffordshire
Chris Anson	USA	North Carolina State
Arthur Applebee	USA	SUNY Albany
Arnetha Ball	USA	Stanford
Chuck Bazerman	USA	University of California, Santa Barbara
Anne Beaufort	USA	University of Washington, Tacoma
Virgina Berninger	USA	University of Washington
Deborah Brandt	USA	University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ralph Cintron	USA	University of Illinois at Chicago
Ulla Connor	USA	Indiana University-Purdue University
Christiane Donahue	USA	University of Maine, Farmington
Peter Elbow	USA	University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Sarah Freedman	USA	Berkeley
Steve Graham	USA	Vanderbilt
Christina Haas	USA	Kent State University
Richard Haswell	USA	TAMU Corpus Christi
Dick Hayes	USA	Carnegie-Mellon University
Doug Hesse	USA	University of Denver
George Hillocks	USA	University of Chicago
Tom Huckin	USA	University of Utah
Ron Kellogg	USA	St. Louis University
Gesa Kirsch	USA	Bentley College
Paul LaMaheiu	USA	University of California, Berkeley
Neal Learner	USA	MIT
Andrea Lunsford	USA	Stanford
Karen Lunsford	USA	University of California, Santa Barbara
Skip MacArthur	USA	University of Delaware
Paul Kei Matsuda	USA	Arizona State University
Sandra Murphy	USA	University of California, Davis
Cezar Ornatowski	USA	San Diego State
Mike Palmquist	USA	Colorado State University
Paul Prior	USA	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Anne Ruggles Gere	USA	University of Michigan
David Russell	USA	Iowa State University
Mary Schleppegrell	USA	University of Michigan
Peter Smagorinsky	USA	University of Georgia
Clay Spinuzzi	USA	University of Texas, Austin
Chris Thaiss	USA	University of California, Davis
Joanna Wolfe	USA	University of Louisville
Terry Myers Zawacki	USA	George Mason University

 

 

CFP: The Ninth Annual Wenshan International Conference

The Ninth Annual Wenshan International Conference

 

English Department, National Chengchi University

Taipei, Taiwan

 

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

 

Conference theme:

Meeting the Challenges of Serving the New Generation of EFL Learners

 

The English Department of National Chengchi University will hold the Ninth Annual Wenshan International Conference on the NCCU main campus in Taipei, on Saturday, May 29, 2010.

The theme for this conference is Meeting the Challenges of Serving the New Generation of EFL Learners. Since the Internet became available in the mid- 1990s, frequent exposure to electronic media and instant interaction among people from as close as neighboring cubicles to as far as distant continents has become a way of life. As the English language continues to play a key role in global communication, English language educators are realizing that many current students have grown up with much more experience with the English language via computers and mobile technology than students in the past. Many in the field feel the need to review and redesign their English language curriculum in order to reflect these changes to more fully meet the needs and interests of this new generation of students. As a result, questions have arisen including how to understand the changes that are happening in learners and in the classroom, and how to consider curriculum design in order to meet the challenges brought about by the so-called “new literacies” (Gee, 2000; Lam, 2000). These are the questions that the Ninth Annual Wenshan International Conference would like to address.

 

We are excited to have the following professors as our keynote speakers—

l   Phillip Benson, English Department Chair & Professor, Hong Kong Institute of Education

l   David Flinders, Professor of Curriculum Studies, Indiana University (Bloomington)

l   Paul Kei Matsuda, Associate Professor of English at Arizona State University

 

Abstracts for 20-minute academic paper presentations are now being accepted. We particularly welcome Vygotskian sociocultural (SCT) related perspectives and encourage presentations which report on ongoing or in-progress projects or research in the following categories:

 

l   Changes in the current English learning environment

l   The Net-generation Language learners

l   Classroom practice in response to new literacies

l   Developing language proficiency for the future

l   Teacher professional development

l   Impact of emerging technologies

l   Future trends in language curriculum research

l   Autonomy in language learning

 

Abstract Submission:

Please remove all author information before submitting your abstract, written in English, for blind review via the conference website at: http://english.nccu.edu.tw/seminar/actnews.php?Sn=9.

Authors of proposals invited to present at the conference are also encouraged to submit their papers to the refereed journal: Taiwan Journal of TESOL.

 

Important Dates:

Abstract submission deadline: Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Notification of acceptance: January 25, 2010

Paper submission deadline: May 10, 2010

Conference date: May 29, 2010

 

For more information, please contact:

E-mail: wsconf@nccu.edu.tw

Telephone: 886-2-2938-7248

Fax: 886-2-2939-0510

 

Further information is available at: http://english.nccu.edu.tw/seminar/actnews.php?Sn=9