[pn] CFP: Asia CALL 2003

[Mark Warschauer]

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2003 Asia CALL International Conference
Short Title: ASIA CALL 2003
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Date: MAY. 14 - 16, 2003
Call Deadline: March 30, 2003
Contact Person: Larry Chong
Contact Email: chongld@gyeongju.ac.kr
Official language: English

MEETING DESCRIPTION:
The conference is organized by the Asia Computer Assisted Language Learning
Association and MOE, Thailand.

THEME:
Information & Communication Technology and Education in Asia

SUB THEME:
IT and University Education
IT and Language Education
IT and Literature Education
IT and Culture Education

OBJECTIVES:
To offer Information Technology related to University Education and how to
develop IT skills in the classroom to Faculty and researchers.

PLENARY SPEAKERS:
1.   Dr. Thomas Robb (Kyoto Sangyo Univ., Japan) - The Internet & Education
2.   Dr. Euiyon Cho (Dongguk Univ., Korea) - CALL & Linguistics
3.   Dr. Yoonil Auh (Central Michigan Univ., USA) - Distance Education
4.   Dr. Charles ESS (Drury Univ., USA) - IT & Culture Transfer
5.   Dr. Andrew Lian (Univ. of Canberra, Australia)  - Round Table Organizer



CALL for PAPERS:
The overall theme of the conference is:
INFORMATION & COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY and EDUCATION

Sub-topics include, but are not restricted to:
- Language Instruction
- Collaborative CALL projects
- Computer-mediated Instruction
- Corpus Linguistics and Language Instruction
- Web-based Language Instruction
- Distance Language Instruction
- Literature, Culture and Multimedia
- Multimedia-Assisted Language Learning
- Technology Enhanced Language Learning
- CALL & Less commonly taught languages
- CALL & New learning environments

We invite abstracts of up to 200 words for
-    Paper presentations (time allotted 30 min)
-    A Show & TELL Workshop (approx. 50 minutes)
-    Posters (space allotted 180x90 cm)

Submit abstracts by email in an attachment to chongld@gyeongju.ac.kr
Remember to give the name(s) of the author(s), affiliation, e-mail address,
phone number ,FAX number and 50 word biodate.

Important dates

- Deadline for submission of abstracts: March 30th, 2003.
- Notification of acceptance: April 5th, 2003.
- Program available: March 20th, 2003.
- Early bird registration: before March 20th, 2003

Details regarding the program, registration and hotel accommodation will be
sent out in March 2003. If you submit an abstract, you will
automatically receive this information. If you do not submit an abstract,
send us an email in order to receive our next newsletter.

For more information about the conference, please visit our website at:
http://www.asiacall.org

ASIA CALL 2003 ORGANIZERS:

Dr. Larry Chong - Chair
Dr. Stephen Carey - North America
Dr. Christine Sabieh - Lebanon
Dr. Shameem Rafik-Galea - Malaysia
Dr. Ambigapathy Pandian - Malaysia
Prof. Leila kajee - South Africa
Ms. Maryam Paknahad-Jabarooty - Middle East

Dr. Monica van Heerden - Far East Asia
Ms. Monica Ward - Europe
Ms. Debbie Dolan - Australia
Prof. Anil Pathak - Singapore

Dr. Fu Chun Si - China