The Fifth National Symposium on SLA will be held in
Wuhan
on Oct. 19-21, 2012.
Theme: Second Language Acquisition and foreign language education
Time: Oct. 19-21, 2012
Venue:
School
of
Foreign
languages, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (
Wuhan
)
Hosted by
Second Language Research Committee
Undertaken by
School
of
Foreign
languages, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Working languages: English and Chinese
Number of participants: about 200
Conference fees: CNY600RMB for domestic scholars; CNY400RMB for graduate students. The transportation and accommodation fees are not included.
Subthemes: theory of SLA; Individual differences; interlanguage; SLA research from different perspectives (such as linguistic perspective, cognitive-psychological perspective, social-cultural perspective); SLA and foreign language teaching; SLA in classroom; SLA and corpus linguistics; SLA and language testing; input, intake and output in SLA; CALL; SLA with other subjects; other topics related.
Experts Invited:
Wen Qiufang BeijingForeignStudiesUniversity
Wang Chuming
Guangdong
University
of foreign studies
Susan Gass MichiganStateUniversity
Rod Ellis UniversityofAuckland
ZhaoHong Han ColumbiaUniversity
Douglas Bibe NorthernArizonaUniversity
Submission guidelines:
All proposals must be original (i.e., not previously presented in public) and unpublished work. They should be sent as e-mail attachment in Word format to sla2012@yeah.net, Out of the proposals, a number will be chosen by anonymous review by a panel of specialists;
Formal invitation will be sent by September, 2012, and the deadline for the submission will be June 30th, 2012.
Further details can be found at the Conference website at:
Proposals should include the following information:
English or Chinese title (maximums 20 words) (for the conference manual).
English abstracts (about 50 words) or Chinese abstracts (about 100 words) (for the conference manual)
English abstracts (about 300 words) or Chinese version (about 500 words) (for review)
Six experts on
SLA
from home and abroad will be invited as plenary speakers. Individual presenters will be allotted in groups to 15 minutes (10 minutes presentation plus 5 minutes for discussion). Graduate students are welcomed; separated discussion groups will be set for graduate students.
Contacts: Guo Yan: sla2012@yeah.net
Peng Renzhong: sla2012@yeah.net
School of Foreign Languages, Huazhong
University
of
Science
and Technology
Email for this conference: sla2012@yeah.net
Preparatory Committee for the Fifth National Symposium on SLA 2012
