PAAL Japan Upcoming Conference

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 12th Conference of PAAL
(December 19-21, 2007, ROYAL CLIFF BEACH RESORT, Pattaya, Thailand)

Conference website

GENERAL INFORMATION

The PAAL Conference is a forum for academic exchange among scholars and parishioners in applied linguistics and related areas.

The conference provides a venue for the dissemination of current research on a wide variety of issues concerning Asia and beyond.

INVITED SPEAKERS

Prof. Ho-Min Sohn (the University of Hawaii at Manoa)

Prof. Tony T. N. Hung (Hong Kong Baptist University)

Prof. Kyun-ja Park (Korea University)

Areas of interest

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following topics:

* Language Acquisition (FLA/SLA)
* EFL/ESL
* Material Development
* Language and Culture
* Pedagogy (Language/Literature)
* Theoretical Linguistics
* CALL
* Psycholinguistics/Neurolinguistics
* Language Testing
* Sociolinguistics
* Language Policy and Planning
* Text Analysis

PRESENTATION FORMAT

1.	Paper: 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for discussion and questions
2.	Poster: 2 hour blocks will be designated for display and discussion

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Proposals
(1)	Subscribe to PAAL member before submitting your proposal.
(2)	Submit your proposal on the website below (This site is available on Aug 1).
http://paaljapan.org/conference2007/abst.html
(3)	Limit your proposal to 400 words or less.
(4)	The deadline of submission of proposals is Aug 31.
(5)	The notification of acceptance is expected to be sent by the end of Sep.
Proceedings
(1)	The deadline of submission of proceedings is Oct 31.
(2)	Submit your paper on the website below (This site is available on Oct 1).
http://paaljapan.org/conference2007/proc.html
(3)	Limit your paper to 2 or 4 page.
(4)	The template for PAAL proceedings is available on Oct 1.

IMPORTANT DATES

Proposal Submission Deadline: Aug 31, 2007

Notification of Acceptance: Sep 30, 2007

Proceedings Submission Deadline: Oct 31, 2007

Conference: Dec 19-21, 2007

CONTACT

Phone/Fax	+81-3-5286-1558
E-mail	office#paaljapan.org (replace # with @)
Website	http://www.paaljapan.org