{"id":4755,"date":"2014-06-07T18:02:42","date_gmt":"2014-06-07T18:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eltweekly.com\/?p=4755"},"modified":"2014-06-07T18:02:42","modified_gmt":"2014-06-07T18:02:42","slug":"conference-5th-international-conference-on-teaching-english-as-a-foreign-language-november-21-22-portugal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eltweekly.humbeestudio.xyz\/?p=4755","title":{"rendered":"Conference: &#8216;5th International Conference on Teaching English as a Foreign Language&#8217;, November 21-22, Portugal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">[ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 15 |\u00a0June 9<span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">, 2014 | ISSN 0975-3036]<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"color: #363636;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tealsfcsh.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/04\/tefl51.jpg?w=527&amp;h=202\" alt=\"tefl5\" \/><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-weight: inherit; color: #b2cdc8;\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #000000;\">CALL FOR PAPERS<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul style=\"color: #666666;\">\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #000000;\">Title and abstract (maximum 150 words) submission: 30 June, 2014\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #000000;\">Send it by email to:\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #e47f53;\" href=\"https:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/?view=cm&amp;fs=1&amp;tf=1&amp;to=teals.fcsh@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #000000;\">teals.fcsh@gmail.com<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #000000;\">Notification of Paper Decision: 14 July, 2014<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: inherit; color: #b2cdc8;\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #000000;\">Topics for discussion:<\/span><\/h4>\n<ul style=\"color: #666666;\">\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #000000;\">Assessment literacy<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #000000;\">Classroom assessment<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #000000;\">Learning-oriented assessment<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #000000;\">Writing classroom tests<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #000000;\">Assessing writing<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #000000;\">Assessing speaking<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #000000;\">Assessing CLIL<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #000000;\">Assessment and the CEFR<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #000000;\">Competence-based assessment<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #000000;\">Assessing intercultural competence<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #000000;\">Self-assessment &amp; learner autonomy<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #000000;\">Teacher evaluation<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #000000;\">Backwash and impact<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<hr style=\"color: #666666;\" \/>\n<h3 style=\"font-weight: inherit; color: #b2cdc8; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #000000;\">Registration:<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul style=\"color: #666666; text-align: justify;\">\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #000000;\">General fee: \u20ac 80 (without presentation)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #000000;\">Presenters\u2019 fee: \u20ac 60<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #000000;\">TEALS members: free<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #000000;\">UNL student (BA and MA) fee: \u20ac 40 (Student affiliation proof required)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"color: #666666; text-align: justify;\">\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #000000;\">Orientadores de escolas cooperantes dos est\u00e1gios de Ingl\u00eas da FCSH: gratuito<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #000000;\">Docentes de Ingl\u00eas das escolas cooperantes dos est\u00e1gios de Ingl\u00eas da FCSH: \u20ac 60<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"color: #666666; text-align: justify;\">\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #000000;\">Registration is open to anyone who wishes to attend the conference.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #000000;\">Important dates and payment:<\/span>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">Registration: 15 July to 20 November<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">Registration form (available from July 2014). Send it by email to:\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #e47f53;\" href=\"https:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/?view=cm&amp;fs=1&amp;tf=1&amp;to=teals.fcsh@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">teals.fcsh@gmail.com<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">Please attach proof of payment to your registration form (add a scanned copy of your \u201cMultibanco\u201d receipt or add our email to your online transfer).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">Registration is limited to 100 participants, due to the capacity of our auditoriums.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">If you wish to attend our conference dinner, do please add 20 euros to your payment or pay on arrival to the Conference<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 style=\"font-weight: inherit; color: #b2cdc8; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-style: inherit;\">Keynote speakers<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"color: #666666; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #000000;\"><strong>David Little<\/strong> retired in 2008 as Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics and Head of the School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences at Trinity College Dublin. His principal research interests are the theory and practice of learner autonomy in second language education, the exploitation of linguistic diversity in schools and classrooms, and the use of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages to support the design of second language curricula, teaching and assessment. Starting in 1998, he played a leading role in the development and implementation of the European Language Portfolio, and he remains a member of several Council of Europe expert groups.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #666666; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Joan Turner<\/strong> is a Reader in Writing Research and Intercultural Communication at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is Director of the Centre for English Language and Academic Writing there, and a board member of the research Centre for Language Culture and Learning. \u00a0Her background is in language studies and language teaching, with specialisations in EAP (English for Academic Purposes) and Intercultural Communication. She is also interested more widely in cultural theory. Her 2011 book, Language in the Academy: Cultural Reflexivity and Intercultural Dynamics critiqued the perception of language and language work in the academy, as well as emphasize the constitutive dynamism of the intercultural in pedagogic practice. Other recent publications include: \u201cResearching Intercultural Communication in a UK Higher Education Context\u201d with Masako Hiraga, in Jin, L. &amp; Cortazzi, M. (2013)(eds.) Researching Intercultural Communication, Palgrave Macmillan; and Academic Literacies: Providing a Space for the Socio-political Dynamics of EAP (2012) in Journal of English for Academic Purposes 11(1), 17-25.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #666666; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\"><strong>Neus Figueras Casanovas<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">\u00a0holds a PhD in language testing from the University of Barcelona. She is currently working in the Departament d\u2019Ensenyament de la Generalitat de Catalunya, where she coordinates the certificate exams for the Escoles Oficials d\u2019Idiomes. She is also lecturing part-time at the University of Barcelona and the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. She has been involved in a number of international research and development projects (Speakeasy, Dialang, Ceftrain) and collaborates regularly with the Council of Europe in the dissemination of the Common European Framework of Reference in relation with testing and assessment. She has published articles in the field of language teaching and assessment and is one of the authors of the Manual for Relating examinations to the CEFR (Council of Europe, 2009). She has recently published, with Fuensanta Puig, Pautas para la evaluaci\u00f3n del espa\u00f1ol como lengua extranjera (2013). Edinumen. She has been a teacher trainer for over 20 years, and has given courses and presented in universities in Spain and in different European countries, in Asia and the USA. She was the first President (2004-7)<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\"> of\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #e47f53;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ealta.eu.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #000000;\">EALTA<\/span><\/a>(European Association for Language Testing and Assessment), and she is now an expert member.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #666666;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tealsfcsh.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Click here for more information<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 15 |\u00a0June 9, 2014 | ISSN 0975-3036] CALL FOR PAPERS Title and abstract (maximum 150 words) submission: 30 June, 2014\u00a0 Send it by email to:\u00a0teals.fcsh@gmail.com Notification of Paper Decision: 14 July, 2014 Topics for discussion: Assessment literacy Classroom 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