NTUTAPPLINGX 2011 - NTUTAPPLINGX 2011 2011 NTUT International Conference on Applied Linguistics

NTUTAPPLINGX 2011
2011 NTUT International Conference on Applied Linguistics
Call for Papers

Conference Date: November 3-4, 2011
Conference Host: Department of English, National Taipei University of Technology
Conference Venue: National Taipei University of Technology
Conference Description:
The 2011 NTUT International Conference on Applied Linguistics (NTUTAPPLINGX 2011), to be hosted by the Department of English at National Taipei University of Technology (NTUT) on November 3-4, 2011, will bring together researchers interested in language, discourse, SLA, translation, cultural studies, and other related fields to report new research findings, exchange innovative ideas, and share frameworks in these areas. This annual international event was launched in 2006 with the International Conference Sustainability and the Literary Imagination: Transdisciplinary and Intercultural Perspectives as conference theme, where we inquired into ecological issues from a literary perspective. In 2008, we hosted System, Norm and the Societal: A Conference on "Translation Studies as Science" and reflected on the socio-cultural issues behind the activity of translating. In 2009, we deliberated on language instruction, its research and development, at the Applied Linguistics and Sociolinguistics: the Form and the Content. In 2010, we explored silence in all its dimensions at the Silent & Ineffable: Functions of the Unsaid in Literature and the Humanities, where a total of 30 quality papers were presented by scholars from here and abroad. This year, we continue this tradition hoping to attract a greater number of international researchers to present research findings in their areas of expertise, with a view to facilitate productive exchanges and fruitful interaction between participants and stimulate new ideas and research directions in their respective fields of study.
Conference Themes:
1. Applied Linguistics: pragmatics, phraseology, discourse analysis, text linguistics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, language and culture, language and technology, language assessment, corpus linguistics, cross-linguistic and cross-cultural communication, gender studies, and other relevant topics
2. Foreign Language Teaching Theory and Practice: L2 acquisition/SLA, content-based instruction, multi-/cross-cultural issues in English education, technology and English
education, and other relevant topics
3. ESP Research and Teaching: technical writing, corpus resources, English for vocational education/business/tourism/science/medicine/technology/management, innovations in ESP curriculum design, international/inter-cultural communication, trends and challenges in English for specific purposes
4. Translation Studies: theory and practice of interpretation and translation, interpretation and translation theory, interpretation and translation practice, interpretation and translation teaching
5. Themes otherwise proposed are welcome. Please send proposals to the Host.
Official Languages: English and Chinese
Important Dates:
1. Abstract Due: Please submit your less-than-200-words abstract and Author/s Information
Form on WORD to ntuteng-AT-ntut.edu.tw by March 18, 2011. Please indicate “2011 NTUT Conference Abstract” as “Subject” in your email. Submissions can be either in English or Chinese.
2. Acceptance Notification: before end of March 2011
3. Full Paper Due: Please send your full paper prepared in the APA or Language style on

WORD to ntuteng-AT-ntut.edu.tw by September 30, 2011, and please indicate “2011 NTUT Conference Full Paper” as “Subject” in your email.
4. Post-Conference Publication: Refereed theme papers will be prepared into publication/s.
5. Contact: John Chen, NTUT Department of English Administrative Assistant
TEL: 886-2-27712171, exts. 3904; Email: ntuteng-AT-ntut.edu.tw