{"id":4189,"date":"2013-10-05T02:00:47","date_gmt":"2013-10-05T02:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eltweekly.com\/elt-newsletter\/?p=4189"},"modified":"2013-10-05T02:00:47","modified_gmt":"2013-10-05T02:00:47","slug":"conference-language-in-focus-antalya-turkey-march-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eltweekly.humbeestudio.xyz\/?p=4189","title":{"rendered":"Conference: &#8216;Language in Focus&#8217;, Antalya, Turkey, March 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong style=\"color: #ff0000; text-align: center;\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong>ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#36 | October 7, 2013 |\u00a0<strong>ISSN 0975-3036<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/egitim.cu.edu.tr\/lif2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/logo3.png\" width=\"955\" height=\"151\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON APPLIED LINGUISTICS AND ELT<\/h2>\n<p>ELT Department of Faculty of Education,\u00a0Cukurova University, Adana, Turkey\u00a0is holding\u00a01st INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON APPLIED LINGUISTICS AND ELT \/<\/p>\n<p>Language in Focus\u00a0Exploring the challenges and opportunities in Linguistics and English Language Teaching<\/p>\n<p>Antalya, Turkey,\u00a0March 27-29, 2014<\/p>\n<p>The conference is dedicated to academics and university lecturers, representatives of central and local educational authorities, non-governmental organizations and school teachers. The event is a great occasion for meeting experts in a varied areas of Linguistics and ELT.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CONFERENCE THEME<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Applied Linguistics is a field of academic enquiry that deals with the theoretical and empirical investigation of real issues in which\u00a0LANGUAGE IS IN FOCUS. These issues range from aspects of linguistics, first or second language acquisition, literacy, language disorders, foreign language learning\/ teaching, bilingual education\/CLIL, multilingualism over interactional issues of interpersonal and intercultural communication to language variation, linguistic discrimination, language policy etc.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>New approaches, new theoretical concepts and new methods are a prerequisite for dealing with particular educational issues, thereforeCHALLENGE\u00a0and\u00a0OPPORTUNITIES\u00a0have become the main conference theme.<\/p>\n<p>Hence,\u00a0LIF2014\u00a0conference has been designed as a forum of interdisciplinary academic dialogue on various aspects of Applied Linguistics including General Linguistics and ELT. More specifically, the papers are expected to address the following intersections:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ELT Methodology and classroom applications<\/li>\n<li>Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)<\/li>\n<li>SLA \/ ELT focused theories and research\u00a0 (productive and receptive skills, linguistic and communicative competences, code-switching, classroom interaction analysis, assessment and evaluation)<\/li>\n<li>Psychological and psycholinguistic perspectives in SLA \/ ELT (attitudinal patterns, motivation, individual learner differences, learning strategies, learner autonomy)<\/li>\n<li>Corpus Linguistics and Learner Corpora<\/li>\n<li>Syntax and interfaces with morphology and semantics<\/li>\n<li>Lexical processing<\/li>\n<li>Phonological processing<\/li>\n<li>Cross-linguistic influences<\/li>\n<li>Discourse analysis<\/li>\n<li>Sociolinguistic theories and research (quantitative and qualitative approaches to the study of language, ethnographic and anthropological approaches to the study of language; language contact)<\/li>\n<li>Socio-cultural considerations (intercultural competence development, multiculturalism in theory and practice, ethnic\/language minority classrooms)<\/li>\n<li>Multilingualism \/ bilingualism<\/li>\n<li>Educational language policies<\/li>\n<li>Translation and interpreting<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>However, the submission of other topics for consideration is welcome and we also encourage sessions within and across a variety of disciplines and fields related to Applied Linguistics and Teaching Foreign Languages.\u00a0 Proposals for original and previously unpublished papers (20 minutes for the\u00a0presentation\u00a0and 10 minutes for questions) or\u00a0workshops\u00a0(45 minutes) reporting on research related to the theme of the conference, or posters regarding the issues are welcome for presentation at the conference.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/egitim.cu.edu.tr\/lif2014\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>&#8216;Language in Focus&#8217;, Antalya, 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