The 8th International Conference on ELT in China will be held in Xi’an City on Oct. 20-22, 2017. We invite proposals for individual papers, posters, symposia or workshops.

Time:  October 20-22, 2017

Venue:  Xi’an City, China

Organized by: China English Language Education Association

Hosted by: Xi’an International Studies University

Co-Hosted by: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press

Theme:  English Language Teaching in a Global World: New Perspectives, New Methodologies

Strands

1.     Second Language Acquisition

2.     Psycholinguistics

3.     Foreign Language Teaching and Teacher Development

4.     Learning Strategies and Learner Autonomy

5.     Language and Education in Multilingual Settings

6.     Education Technology and Language Learning

7.     Language at Workplace

8.     Interpreting and Translation

9.     Language and Media

10.  Sociolinguistics

11.  Language Policy

12.  Multilingualism and Multiculturalism

13.  Contrastive Linguistics

14.  Cross-cultural Studies

15.  Discourse Analysis

16.  Rhetoric and Stylistics

17.  Lexicography and Lexicology

18.  Language Evaluation, Assessment and Testing

19.  Discourse and Multimodality in Text

Keynote Speakers

   Nick Ellis (University of Michigan)

   Claire Kramsch（UC Berkeley）

   Zha Mingjian (Shanghai International Studies University）

   Liang Maocheng（Beijing Foreign Studies University）

Forms of Presentation

• Individual Papers

A block of 30 minutes will be designated for an individual paper presentation, in which 20 minutes are for the presentation and 10 minutes for discussion.

• Poster Presentations

Posters can be presented for completed projects or projects in progress, which are effective for presenting data visually (charts, graphs, or tables). A block of time will be made available for poster presenters to discuss their projects with interested conference participants. Specific guidelines for posters will be provided upon acceptance.

• Symposia

Symposia will be allocated 3-hour blocks. Organizers of symposia may divide their time as they choose, but some of the allocated time should be for opening and closing remarks, panel discussions (if included), and extended audience response. Organizers of symposia must liaise on behalf of all their symposium participants with the congress program committee.

Working Languages：English and Chinese

Proposals: Proposals for all presentations, including symposia and workshops should include a title (no more than 20 words), a brief general introduction (about 50 words) and an abstract (500 words).  The general introduction for symposia should be 300 words.

All proposals should be submitted by completing the online submission form on the ELT 2017 official site: http://elt.celea.org.cn/2017.

Submission Deadline: December 31, 2016

A collection of papers from ELT 2017 will be selected and published after the conference. If you would like your paper to be considered, please submit your full-length paper (3 printed copies and an electronic copy) when checking in for the congress.

Please submit your proposals as early as possible. We are planning to inform successful applicants in March 2017, so that those colleagues planning to apply for financial assistance to their local agencies have enough time to prepare their applications.

Registration Fee

USD 180 /person

The registration will open online from 1 March 2017.

Consultation

Conference website：http://elt.celea.org.cn/2017

Conference mailbox： elt2017@xisu.edu.cn

Chinese version