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This is a call for papers for a conference that was held in the past. The call is no londer active, and the post is retained for archival reasons only. You can find more recent calls for papers by clicking here.

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.