Conference on Language, Learning, & Culture, April 10-11, 2015

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Following a successful inaugural conference in the spring of 2014, the School of Education at Virginia International University(VIU) will be hosting its second Conference on Language, Learning, and Culture(CLLC) on April 10-11, 2015.

The 2015 theme, Next-Generation Assessment, intends to reframe assessment in terms of its ability to meet the needs and achieve the goals of all stakeholders: empowering students with awareness of their strengths and areas for development; giving educators additional diagnostic information and tools to adapt their instruction; and providing administrators, testing organizations, policy makers, and community members with rigorous data on outcomes that can be used to improve educational programs. The goal is to begin a solutions-oriented dialogue on the next generation of innovations in assessment by acknowledging the interplay among a variety of factors related to language, learning, and culture. (more…)

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‘International Colloquium on Contemporary Issues in Language Learning, Teaching, Literature, Media and Culture’, New Delishi, March 15, 2015

[ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 7 | February 23, 2015 | ISSN 0975-3036]

The objective of International colloquium on Contemporary issues in Language Learning, Teaching, Literature, Media and Culture is to provide a platform and to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and Ph.D research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results. The colloquium will also examine various issues and factors that intervene at the interface of Language Learning, Teaching, Literature and Culture.

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‘International Conference on New Trends in 20th – 21st Century English Literature and Language’ (NTELL, 2015), Haryana, March 13-15

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The advent of the 20th century marked a significant paradigm shift in almost all walks of life. The century witnessed extraordinary seminal happenings wherein life itself got redefined. Literature, which has always been the index of various hues of life, too witnessed watershed moments. Peter Childs in Modernism (2007) says “modes of literary discourse blur . . . or overwrite . . . the ones before”. Hence, there is an undeniable inter-relationship between life, literature, thought and language. The ever-changing paradigms of the global world have given literature not only an opportunity to revisit its own theories and practices but chartered a course for new ones to emerge. The issues
of society, culture, politics, gender, etc. need to be oriented and explored with reference to the changing necessities of the society. Moreover, the rise of a global world has made the medium of imitation a complex phenomenon as the linguistic diversities have paved the way for a multilingualism that co-exists with the ever-increasing territory of a single Global Language, English, which in turn comes with its own set of adaptations and “englishes”.

Hence, there is an urgent need to contemplate on the role of literature and language in the light of the cross-cultural paradigm shifts experienced all over the world. In view of the prevailing scenario, the two-day conference NTELL-2015 aims to serve as a forum for eminent scholars and leading academicians from India and abroad to brainstorm these challenges, share their knowledge & experience and generate empirical observations.

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