[ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 27 | November 10, 2014 | ISSN 0975-3036] Conference: ‘Intercultural Competence in Communication and Education (ICCEd2015)’, Malaysia, April 8-9, 2015 Video: Multiple Intelligence and their Role in…
[ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 27 | November 10, 2014 | ISSN 0975-3036]
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Publish before a global audience. Present in a supportive environment. Network and create new relationships. Hear the latest research. Experience Japan. Join a global academic community.
This international and interdisciplinary conference will again bring together a range of academics and practitioners to discuss new directions of research and discovery in technology in the classroom. As with IAFOR’s other events, ACTC2015 will afford the opportunity for renewing old acquaintances, making new contacts, and networking across higher education and beyond.
The Fifth Asian Conference on Technology in the Classroom will again be held alongside The Fifth Asian Conference on Language Learning.
ACTC2015 Conference Theme: “Integrated Practices: Creating Experiences to Enhance Learning”
Educators face continually shifting demands from all directions: students, administrators, and society. With some of these demands, teachers and learners may feel greater isolation and pressure. These trends may be seen in the disaggregation of the university or in frequent testing of discrete outcomes for analysis and accountability purposes. In the face of these developments, it is more important than ever to reflect on learning as experience, and to bring theory, research, and craft to bear on creating those experiences.
Dewey wrote that, “the central problem of education based on experience is to select the kind of present experiences that live fruitfully and creatively in future experiences”. So, how does research in second language acquisition and teacher expertise tell us which experiences live on in communication? How do learning theories direct us to view the connections between experiences? And, how can application of technology both become normalized and create vivid experiences?
Finally, we need personal and professional integration. Coming together to share best practices in these twinned conferences is a chance to share and develop ways to better integrate our institutions, teachers, and most of all the experiences of the learners in a coherent practice of education. (more…)
[ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 27 | November 10, 2014 | ISSN 0975-3036]
(LLCSKR – 2015) is concerned with the relation and interaction between Language and Literature and how it shapes the Cultural ethos of a human society. Language and Literature, the two forms of expression are the strongest transmission channels that shape any culture. The study of Language or Literature is no longer – if it ever was – simply the study and evaluation of poems, novels and plays. It is also the study of the ideas, issues and difficulties which arise in any literary text and in its interpretation. Other arts and humanities subjects have also changed in analogous ways, evidence for which is available in the rich archives of knowledge resources, both conventional and digital. These repositories, when tapped, become sources for establishing closer cultural ties, proving that the East and the West shall, indeed, meet.
The complex discipline of Language, Literature and Cultural Studies aims at comprehending the global environment by exploring the unifying elements, in terms of intellect, emotion or spirituality, underlying the cultures of varied social groups reflected in the language and literature of our times. Culture, after all, is not an arena for harmonious unfolding of the nationalist or universal spirit, as is often supposed. Nor is ‘Culture’ simply a zone of aesthetic. It is often a field, of contention and conflict, among classes and other social forces that struggle for dominance. The fascinating conference theme seeks to provide opportunities for deliberating and understanding the dynamics of cultural exchange among people and nation states that are becoming more and more globalized and detached from any specific culture. The objective of studying Culture in today’s era is to combat the elitist, revivalist, communalist culture that is rearing its head in some quarters of the world. The conference will bring researchers and scholars to exchange and share their experiences on how recent communication and literary theories emanating from the cultural studies movement are helping to understand the matrix shaping globalization. The two-day deliberations will help to gain an insight into the dynamics of difference and enable us to appreciate the multicultural ethos of our global village. (more…)