{"id":4429,"date":"2009-04-17T12:01:07","date_gmt":"2009-04-17T09:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eltweekly.com\/more\/?p=217"},"modified":"2009-04-17T12:01:07","modified_gmt":"2009-04-17T09:01:07","slug":"eltweekly-issue16-worldwide-elt-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eltweekly.humbeestudio.xyz\/?p=4429","title":{"rendered":"ELTWeekly Issue#16, Worldwide ELT events"},"content":{"rendered":"

IATEFL YL & LT SIG March 2009<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

This conference is jointly organised by the British Council and IATEFL\u2019s Young Learner & Learning Technologies Special Interest Groups. Sponsored by Cambridge ESOL, it is for all teachers of English\u00a0and focuses on\u00a0three of the most important topics in the rapidly changing world of English Teaching.<\/p>\n

The conference agenda features over 90 speakers with differing backgrounds\u00a0and a wide range of geographies. We hope the varied sessions will address some of the global issues in teaching young learners\u00a0and demonstrate innovations around Assessment and Testing, Learning Technologies and CLIL.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For more information about the conference itself, including registration, go to the\u00a0YL SIG pages<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For further details and pre-registration, please visit: http:\/\/www.countryschool.com\/ylsig2\/index.php<\/a><\/p>\n

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New Trends in CALL: Working Together, 9-12 September, Spain<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

After 13 years EUROCALL returns to Valencia. Some of the more senior members of EUROCALL will recall the 1995 Conference which took place in September that year, hosted by the Department of Modern Languages. Although e-mail was only slowly emerging at the time, EUROCALL ’95 was one of the first conferences in Spain to digitise and publish the abstracts of all the presentations on the web. An emerging world wide web that seemed revolutionary at the time. For anybody who might be nostalgic, the 1995 abstracts can still be accessed athttp:\/\/eurocall.webs.upv.es\/euro95\/home.htm<\/a>. The proceedings of the ’95 conference are also a valuable witness of what was prominent at the time in relation to CALL and TELL. Looking back we can see that some of the concerns in the mid nineties are still valid today, for example issues such as integrating CALL into the language curriculum, incorporating speech recognition tools into language courseware, parser analysers, interactive learning environments and so forth.<\/p>\n

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The 2009 EUROCALL conference will focus on New Trends in Computer Assisted Language Learning with a special emphasis on innovative ways of collaborating and working together in the advancement of language learning and teaching. The conference sub-themes are an example of the numerous branches that have grown out of the CALL tree and is an illustration, we think, of the roots that this area has planted in a collective will to actively contribute towards better understanding and improving language learning with the assistance of information and communications technologies. CALL researchers, developers and practitioners are therefore invited to submit proposals relating to any of the following subthemes which, we think, summarise current interests and concerns in CALL:<\/p>\n