Conference | Languages for the 21st Century: Training, Impact and Influence
1-2 September 2010
University of Sheffield
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The conference aims to showcase new training provision, techniques, technologies, methodologies and research in language teaching, with an emphasis on the advanced or research-focussed learner. Particular emphasis will be on the Languages of the Wider World: Africa, East and South Asia, Russia, Central Europe and the Arab World.
Call for Papers - Closed
We live in a world containing a myriad of different cultures, where clear and effective communication is increasingly important in international cultural, economic, political and social relations, and where facility with foreign languages can have a major impact upon the success of a business, an individual or a nation. Papers are, therefore, sought for a conference entitled Languages for the 21st Century: Training, Impact and Influence aimed at showcasing new training provision, techniques, technologies, methodolgies and research in language teaching, with an emphasis on the advanced or research-focussed learner. The main focus of the conference will be on the Languages of the Wider World: Africa, East and South Asia, Russia, Central Europe and the Arab world, but contributions to other areas are also welcomed.
Main conference themes will be:
- Assessment: methodologies and comparisons
- Benchmarking: standards for higher study
- Cultural Competence: teaching text, discourse, rhetoric and skills
- Generational Change: new approaches for the information age
- Language for Research: training for the social sciences and humanities
- Materials and Curriculum Development: from ab initio to advanced, from paper to screen
- Outreach: training the policy or business learner
- Research in a global context
But papers in other areas will also be considered. Papers may be either traditional research presentations, reports on new approached and developments, or practical demonstrations. Proposals for workshop sessions, likely to be of use to both teachers and students, or entire panels are also welcomed.
The conference is jointly organized and supported by the five UK Centres of Excellence in Language-based Area Studies (White Rose East Asia Centre, British Inter-University China Centre, Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World, Centre for East European Language-based Area Studies, Centre for Russian, Central and East European Studies), the Subject Centre for Language, Linguistics and Area Studies and the Languages of the Wider World Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning.
Travel bursaries are not available for this event.
