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The deadline for uploading your conference presentations (powerpoint slides) is May 20, 2012.
The deadline for uploading your conference proceedings is July 31, 2012.
Important Dates
20 February 2012Notification of acceptance
20 March 2012Early registration deadline
The 5th International Conference of English as a Lingua Franca is being hosted by Boğaziçi University, Faculty of Education, Department of Foreign Language Education, Istanbul, Turkey from May 24 to 26, 2012.
The conference theme is: ‘PEDAGOGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF ELF IN THE EXPANDING CIRCLE’.
However, the conference is open to all other ELF related topics such as:
› ELF and Language Policy
› ELF and Language Education
› Collecting ELF Corpora and Describing ELF
› The Sociolinguistics of ELF
› Contact Languages and ELF
› ELF and Multilingualism
Plenary speakers:
› Cem Alptekin, Boğaziçi University, Turkey
› Martin Dewey, King’s College London, UK
› Enric Llurda, University of Lleida, Spain
› Tim McNamara, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Plenary panelists:
› Jennifer Jenkins, University of Southampton, UK
› Anna Mauranen, University of Helsinki, Finland
› Barbara Seidlhofer, University of Vienna, Austria
› Henry Widdowson, University of Vienna, Austria
Special symposia organizers:
› Robert Baird, University of Southampton, UK
› David Graddol, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
› Ahmar Mahboob, The University of Sydney, Australia
› Nicos Sifakis, Hellenic Open University, Greece and Andrew Blair, University of Sussex, UK
› François Victor Tochon, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
Please click on the links on the left for more information regarding the Call for Papers, Registration, Accommodation, Plenary Speakers, and so on.
We look forward to welcoming you to Istanbul in May 2012!
Sincerely,
Yasemin Bayyurt & Sumru Akcan
Organizers of ELF 2012