The Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics are inviting proposals for their Annual Conference, to be held on 3rd-5th June 2013 at the University of Victoria, British Columbia.
The conference
Plenary Sessions include:
- Jim Anderson (University of British Columbia): Promoting children’s bi-lingual and biliteracy development in family literacy programs.
- Sylvie Roy (Université de Calgary): Idéologies et discours en immersion française.
There will also be a symposium convened by Shahrzad Saif (Université Laval, Québec) on The language proficiency of International Teaching Assistants in Canadian Universities: training, assessment, and screening.
Call for papers
Abstracts for 20-minute papers followed by 10 minutes for Q&A should be a maximum of 250 words, excluding references. Proposals for symposia should contain a 250-description of the panel, followed by 250-word abstracts for each paper, in individual pages.
How to submit
Submissions must be sent as a single document (Word) to Mela Sarkar (mela.sarkar[at]mcgill[dot]ca) by 16th November 2012. Each submission should include two separate pages, as follows:
- First page: title of the presentation as well as the name, affiliation, and contact information, including e-mail addresses for all presenters
- Second page: title of presentation and the abstract (without names of presenters)
Only one proposal will be accepted per person as first author. Authors are asked to refrain from excessive self-reference, in order to protect the anonymity of the review process.
Evaluation
Each abstract will be evaluated on the basis of:
- appropriateness and significance of the topic and interest for the participants of ACLA;
- evidence of a theoretical framework and links to previous research;
- clearly stated research design in the case of empirical studies;
- organization and clarity;
- for symposium proposals, evidence of coherence and complementarity of the papers.