Second Call for Papers
7th International Symposium on Teaching English at Tertiary Level
Hong Kong, 13 & 14 October 2011
Hong Kong, 13 & 14 October 2011
Jointly organized by
Department of English
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Co-Organizer
School of International Studies, Zhejiang University
Keynote Speakers
Professor Alister Cumming
Professor and Director, Centre for Educational Research on Languages and Literacies
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada
Executive Director, Language Learning: A Journal of Research in Language Studies
Professor Christian MIM Matthiessen
Chair Professor and Head, Department of English
Associate Dean, Faculty of Humanities
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Plenary Speakers
Professor He Lianzhen
Professor and Dean, School of International Studies, Zhejiang University
Deputy Director, National College English Teaching Advisory Committee of China
Professor Jin Yan
Professor of Applied Linguistics, School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Director, National College English Testing (CET) Committee of China
Professor Zou Shen
Professor of Applied Linguistics, Shanghai International Studies University
Head, China National Advisory Committee of the Test for English Majors (TEM)
Member, National Foreign Language Teaching Advisory Committee of China
Important Dates
Deadline for abstract submissions: 20 June 2011
Notice of acceptance: 20 July 2011
Early bird registration: by 10 Sept 2011
Cancellation (50% refunds): by 10 Sept 2011 (No refund after 10 Sept 2011)
Theme Areas
The symposium organizing committee welcomes abstracts of paper presentations addressing research and pedagogical issues at the tertiary educational level in the following areas:
1. Teaching and learning English as a second/foreign language
2. Language testing and assessment
3. Curriculum/syllabus/materials development
4. Aligning assessment with curriculum
5. English for academic/specific purposes
6. English as a global lingua franca
7. Language education and technology
8. Corpus and discourse research in language education
9. Multimodality in the learning and teaching of English
10. Learner autonomy and learning strategies
11. Longitudinal perspectives in the learning and teaching of English
12. Learning English and learning disciplinary content through English
Abstract Submissions
All individual presentations will be 25 minutes in length, including 10 minutes’ question time.
Your abstract (in MS Word Version) should be a maximum of 250 words (excluding references). Please also include in your abstract: (1) theme area (state one of the above areas), (2) title of your paper, (3) your name and title, (4) your affiliation, and (5) your e-mail address and mailing address.
Each participant can submit only one abstract as the lead author and one abstract as a co-author. Lead authors must register by 10 September 2011 in order for the paper to be included in the conference programme. Please send submissions to: egistetl@inet.polyu.edu.hk.
Registration
Early Bird (by 10 Sept 2011)
Amount (HK$)
Regular 800
Student 400
Late registration (from 11 Sept 2011)
Regular 1,000
Student 500
Publication
All presented papers which are submitted by 31 Dec 2011 will be peer-reviewed for consideration in the Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Teaching English at Tertiary Level.
Conference website: http://www.engl.polyu.edu.hk/events/7thISTETL.htm
Enquiries
egistetl@inet.polyu.edu.hk