The Centre for Applied Linguistics at the University of Warwick is pleased to announce its 18th Postgraduate Conference from Tuesday, 23rd to Thursday, 25th June 2015. The postgraduate conference covers a wide range of topics including language teaching, intercultural communication, and academic or political discourse. The aim of the conference is to provide postgraduate students with the opportunity to present their research, to attend experts’ keynote presentations, to meet peers who engage in similar research activities and to get valuable feedback on their research.
We welcome papers in the following areas:
English Language Learning, Teaching, and Assessment (ELLTA)
Professional and Academic Discourse (PAD)
Working and Communicating Across Cultures (WACC)
We particularly encourage submissions of empirical, conceptual/theoretical nature as well as findings from dissertations/PhD theses at different stages. You may apply to present either individually or as a group (max. 3). Abstracts, for either paper or poster presentations, should be no more than 250 words in length and must be submitted via our online abstract submission form. The submission deadline is 27 April 2015.
For more information about submission of abstracts and poster presentations, please visit our online abstract submission page available at: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/al/research/conferences/wpgc2015/onli…
CONFIRMED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
We are also pleased to announce the talks of our esteemed keynote speakers:
Dr. Fiona Copland
‘NESTs and LETs: identifying issues and proposing responses.’
Dr. Nigel Harwood
‘Experiencing master's dissertation supervision: case studies of L2 supervisees and their supervisors.’
We are looking forward to your submission. If you have any further queries, please do not hesitate to contact us: pgconference2015@warwick.ac.uk
Kind regards,
The 2015 PG Conference Committee