Call for Papers

Second Language Acquisition: Theory and Pedagogy

Tohoku Bunka Gakuen University, Sendai

May 12-13th 2007


As TE SIG representatives on the Pan-SIG committee, Colin Graham and Anthony Robins strongly encourage you to get involved through presenting!?

Here are the details:

The conference will be co-hosted by the Materials Writers (MW), Other Language Educators (OLE), Pragmatics (Prag), Teacher Education (TE) and Testing Evaluation SIGs (TEval) and the Sendai JALT Chapter.
It will explore the relationship between secondlanguage acquisition and the mechanics of the second language classroom.?Proposals are invited for papers (45 minutes), workshops (120 minutes), and poster sessions.? All proposals will be anonymously vetted. Preference will be given to those which meet the aims of one of the participating SIGs and/or fit the overall theme of the conference. 2 copies of the abstracts should be sent by e-mail as attachments in plain text, Microsoft Word or PDF format. Please attach one abstract together with the name, institution, phone number, and e-mail address of the main presenter (in case of joint presentations). Please attach the second abstract with only the title (50 characters maximum) and the contents (250 word maximum).The subject line should say "Submission for xxx SIG" (where xxx is the appropriate abbreviation) or "Submission for other" (if the submission is not related to one of the participating SIGs). Multiple submissions are acceptable but should be sent as separate e-mails.
All submissions to be sent to pansig2007@yahoo.co.uk [please note the 'UK'!] Final call for papers deadline: 9 Feb 2007