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Azerbaijan English Teachers’  Association (AzETA) is delighted to announce 6th International ELT Conference  Reaching Out … for Success  to be held
on 14-15 November 2009
at Baku Slavic University, Baku, Azerbaijan.

The Conference will mainly focus on the following issues:

• Teaching Civic Education through ELT
• Methods and Teaching Skills
• Using Technology for Teaching English
• English for Specific Purposes
• Materials development
• Testing and Assessment
• Teaching English to Young Learners
• Online Projects
• Involving learners in extra-curricula activities

Contact us:
Telephone: +994 12 441 5068 (ext.: 1-51)
Tel/Fax: +994 12 441 3632
Email: elmira_e40@hotmail.com
URL: http://www.az-eta.org/

Address: Room 322, Baku Slavic University 25, Suleyman Rustam Street Baku – AZ  1014 Azerbaijan

The PROCLIL team is happy to announce a new training course on CLIL which will take place in Cyprus in May.
The course is eligible for EU funding – under the LLP programme – and participants have the chance to have their air fares, course fees and accomodation funded by the EU if they apply for grants by 16th January.

You can find more info here:
http://ec.europa.eu/education/trainingdatabase/index.cfm?fuseaction=DisplayCourse&cid=16148

In order to apply for funding you need to:

1) register for the course with the course organisers and receive a pre-registration document (letter)

2) fill in an application form for the EU which you then have to submit to your Lifelong Learning Programme national agency by the 16th January.

Digital Technologies in Language Education

A Simultaneous Real Time and Second Life Symposium

An IATEFL Learning Technologies SIG Event

NUCB Graduate School (Fushimi Campus / Nagoya)

Nagoya University of Commerce & Business, Japan

Friday, 20th February 2009 (09:50 – 18:00)

Go to the symposium website at http://wirelessready.nucba.ac.jp

The Language Learning in Computer Mediated Communities (LLCMC) Conference will take place October 11-13, 2009, in Honolulu. A pre-conference, CULTURA: Web-based Intercultural Exchanges, will take place October 10-11.

Abstracts for papers on the topic of language learning or language teaching in computer mediated communities are welcomed. Abstracts are due by March 1, 2009, with notification of selection results by April 15, 2009.

View the full call for papers at http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/llcmc/call.html

The Center for International Business Research (CIBER) at Florida International University (USA) and the European Association of Languages for Specific Purposes (AELFE) hosted in Spain are jointly organizing the 1st International Seminar on Languages for Business: A Global Approach.

Date: 5-6 June 2009
Location: Avila, Spain

The seminar intends to be a meeting point for academics carrying out research on languages for business from multidisciplinary fields. Papers on textual and discoursal analyses of languages for business, pragmatic, intercultural and cross-cultural aspects on business communication, socio-rhetorical and genre views of professional practices, as well as pedagogical implications and applications of languages for business are welcomed.

Visit the seminar website at

http://ice.unizar.es/portfolio/?page_id=97

or download the call for papers from

http://ice.unizar.es/portfolio/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/borrador-call-for-papers.pdf .

16th Annual International Convention TESOL Macedonia-Thrace, Northern Greece
Venue: Capsis Hotel Thessaloniki, Greece
Date: 11th-12th October 2008
Title: Deconstructing and Reconstructing the Teacher
TESOL Macedonia – Thrace, Northern Greece is proud to announce that plenary speakers for this year’s annual convention are (in alphabetical order):
•    Mrs. Butwilowska (sponsored by Access)
•    Sarah Corcoran (sponsored by Cambridge ESOL)
•    Marialena Kalyva (sponsored by Hillside Press)
•    Colin Rose (sponsored by Accelerated Learning Systems Hellas)
•    Adrian Tennant (sponsored by onestopenglish)
Call for papers: Deadline 12th September 2008
For more information contact:
tesolmth@hol.gr

Saturday 1st March, 2008, 09.00-19.00
Fazekas Mihály Gimnázium, Horváth Mihály tér 8., 1082 Budapest, Hungary
Plenary speakers:
David Boucher (author of Dylan & Cohen: Poets of Rock & Roll)
Jim Scrivener (ELT author & Dylanophile)
Other speakers include:
Samantha Duncan (Institute of Education, University of London)
Mark Andrews (ELTE, Budapest)
David A. Hill (Freelance, Budapest)
Gabi Bonner (Accent International House, Prague)
Carmen Marosi (School No 128, Bucharest)
Pinar Hudaoglu (Eastern Med University, Cyprus)
Emine Orguz (Eastern Med University, Cyprus)
Fees:
HUF 3000 (IATEFL HU LIT SIG members)
HUF 3500 (IATEFL HU Non-LIT SIG members)
HUF 5000 (Hungary non-IATEFL members)

Here’s the direct link to the call for participation:

http://www.iatefl.hu/docs/LMCS.doc

Eurocall 2008 Conference
3-6 September, 2008
Székesfehérvár, Hungary

EUROCALL is a professional organisation for the promotion of innovative research, development and practice in the area of Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) and Technology Enhanced Language Learning (TELL) in education and training. EUROCALL conferences bring together educators, researchers, administrators, materials developers, government representatives, vendors of hardware and software, and others interested in the field of CALL and TELL.

EUROCALL 2008 particularly welcomes papers focusing on integrating new technologies into language learning. Presentations focusing on any other aspect of CALL research, development and practice are also welcomed, especially innovative uses both of established and of leading-edge technologies. All submissions are subject to a blind refereeing process.
Abstract submission deadline: January 31, 2008.

For more information, go to
http://www.asszisztencia.hu/eurocall/index.php?c=31

The CALL Interest Section of the international TESOL professional association is pleased to offer the opportunity to participate in the Electronic Village Online (EVO) 2008 season. This is a professional development project and virtual extension of the TESOL 2008 Convention in New York. The intended audience for this project includes both TESOL 2008 participants and those who can participate only virtually. You do not need to be a TESOL member to participate in a free , six-week , wholly online session of the EVO, Jan 14 – Feb 24, 2008. Please visit our Announcement Page to select one or two among the various offerings.

http://evo08sessionscfp.pbwiki.com

Feel free to distribute this announcement.
Looking forward to having you in the EVO 2008 sessions,
Yours in TESOL,

Dafne Gonzalez
on behalf of the EVO coordination team

Note that the sessions begin on January 14, but you must register before that date if you wish to participate.

Posted on behalf of Wendy Arnold, IATEFL YL SIG joint co-ordinator:

We would like to bring to your attention a 3 day event in Bangalore which the YL SIG and the British Council have jointly organised, held at the Regional Institute of English in Bangalore, India.

3rd – 6th January, 2008 Bangalore, India

International IATEFL YLSIG/British Council TEYL Conference
The way forward: Learning from International experience of TEYL (Teaching English to Young Learners)

Registration: www.primaryeltconference.org (deadline 30th November, 2007)

We hope that you will be interested in sending delegates to attend this conference.
If you have any queries please do not hesitate to contact me.
Kind regards and looking forward to meeting you

Wendy Arnold
IATEFL YL SIG joint co-ordinator