8th FEELTA conference

 “From Broadcasting to Narrowcasting:

Global Englishes, Local Contexts”

The Far Eastern English Language Teachers’ Association

invites proposals for their conference on

language teaching and learning

to be held

June 28 - 30, 2010

at

The Far Eastern State University of Humanities, Khabarovsk, Russia

Hosted by: The Far Eastern State University of Humanities

About FEELTA:

The Far Eastern English Language Teachers' Association (FEELTA) is a professional organization founded in 1995. Its mission is to strengthen the teaching and learning of English in the Russian Far East, to promote the professional development of EFL teachers, to support networking with colleagues all over the world, and to give access to the latest EFL resources.

FEELTA headquarters is in the Institute of Foreign Languages, Far Eastern National University, Vladivostok. Today FEELTA is an organization of 500 members. There are currently 7 FEELTA posts in the Russian Far East: in Blagoveshchensk, Birobijan, Khabarovsk, Komsomolsk-on Amure, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Ussuriysk, and Vladivostok. These posts provide ELT professionals with information and support within their geographical areas.

FEELTA's premier event is the international conference, which is held every other year and attracts some 500 participants. It is a major event and EFL practitioners from even the remotest parts of the Russian Far East come to network and expand their knowledge. The location of the conference alternates between Vladivostok and one of the other FEELTA posts.

FEELTA is affiliated with NATE, TESOL and IATEFL. It is part of the Pan-Asian Consortium of ELT associations (PAC).

About the Conference Theme:

The basic image of broadcasting is a farmer scattering seed more or less at random. This is what TV did in the 60s and 70s, sending out its shows to anybody who cared to watch. The concept of narrowcasting came in when it became possible to target TV broadcasts at a smaller, more specialized audience. So, the metaphor, as applied to teaching English makes a contrast between indiscriminate, one-size-fits-all methods and approaches to teaching in the same way all over the world (and teaching the same English everywhere) and context-sensitive teaching methodology and content.

Just as we have become aware that English, as a newly global language, is being adapted and shaped to suit a variety of local contexts, we must also be ready to adapt our teaching methodologies to local contexts.

The goal of this conference is to gather teachers together from far and wide, so they can share their techniques and approaches to teaching Englishes, not so we can all teach in the same way, but so that we can learn from each other how best to teach in our local context.

Proposals:

Proposals are invited for conference presentations on the following categories:

                short papers (25 minutes)

                papers (50 minutes)

                panels (110 minutes)

                workshops (110 minutes)

                poster sessions (displayed all day - presenters are expected to stand by their posters ready to explain and discuss them, for 60 mins.)

Other sessions:

There will also be a Materials Share Fair and Publishers' Displays.

Deadline for the receipt of proposals and abstracts:

March 1, 2010

We are planning to publish Proceedings and presenters are encouraged to submit their paper during the conference.

Topic Areas

English in the Pacific Rim Countries

Teaching Methods

Cultural Issues

English for Specific Purposes

CALL, Technology and Multimedia

Materials Writing

Teaching Literature and Arts

Teacher Development and Education

Interpreting and Translating

Linguistics

Other Languages

Global Issues in Language Education

Area Studies

Materials to be submitted

application form

a title of up to 10 words

an abstract of not more than 150 words, for peer review

a summary of between 50 and 75 words, to be printed in the programme

a self-introduction of not more than 25 words

Submissions may be made,

by email to:     nastasie_k@mail.ru
by regular mail to Veronika Vasyuk,    Far Eastern  State University of Humanities, Room 15,  K.Marx,St, , 68,  Khabarovsk, 680000, RUSSIA

Equipment

Each room has a chalkboard and a presenter table. Check any other equipment required on the list below. Please help us by indicating equipment requirements now, rather than in the days before the conference.

                OHP

                Audio-cassette player

                VHS video player (NTSC, PAL, and SECAM available)

                Multi-media projector with PC

For further information

contact 

- conference chair Natalya Maximova: nrmaximova@hotmail.com
- for international participants: Stephen Ryan: ryanyama@hcc5.bai.ne.jp



Click here to download a Proposal Form