KVIETIMAS
Call for Papers
5th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS
IN LITHUANIA
LANGUAGES AND PEOPLE: COMMUNICATION
IN A MULTILINGUAL WORLD
26–28 September 2019
Faculty of Philology, Vilnius University
Universiteto St 5, Vilnius
Conference themes:
· sociolinguistics
· language policy
· discourse analysis
· translation
· language teaching and learning
· language acquisition
· language testing
· corpus linguistics
· psycholinguistics
· pragmatics
Keynote speakers:
Monica Schmid
(University of Essex)
https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/schmi49708/monika-schmid
Anna Mauranen
(University of Helsinky)
https://tuhat.helsinki.fi/portal/en/persons/anna-mauranen(d9d6df67-34e4-4e58-901e-08b427411250).html
Daniel Perrin
(Zurich University of Applied Sciences)
https://www.zhaw.ch/en/about-us/person/pdan/
Conference languages: Lithuanian and English
Venue: Faculty of Philology, Vilnius University, Universiteto St 5, Vilnius
Submissions are invited for the following contributions:
· full paper presentations: 30 minutes (20 minutes + 10 minutes for questions);
· poster presentations;
· thematic workshops (short: 1.5 hours with 3 presenters; long: 3 hours with 5-6 presenters).
The length of abstracts for full paper presentations and poster presentation is 300–500 words (excluding references). Workshop convenors are invited to submit a description of the workshop (500–700 words, excluding references) and a list of confirmed workshop presenters. Workshop convenors are responsible for selecting presenters and planning slots in their workshop.
Important dates:
· deadline for the submission of workshop proposals: 17 March 2019
· deadline for abstract submission (full paper presentations and posters): 31 March 2019
· notification of acceptance: 1 June 2019
· early-bird registration: 1 June – 30 June 2019
· registration closes: 31 August 2019
Abstracts should be submitted through the conference website at:
http://www.taikomojikalbotyra.flf.vu.lt/en/registration/
Registration and fees:
· regular registration for presenters: 120 euros
· early-bird registration for presenters: 100 euros
· doctoral / MA students and LITAKA members: 90 euros
· early-bird registration for doctoral / MA students and LITAKA members: 50 euros
· non-presenting participants who wish to obtain a certificate: 10 euros
Publication
· Accepted abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings booklet with an ISBN number.
· Conference participants will be invited to submit their research papers based on conference presentations for publication in the special edition of the electronic journal Taikomoji kalbotyra (Applied Linguistics) that will be issued in 2020. Submission deadline: 31 December 2019.
· All submitted manuscripts will undergo peer-review procedures applied by the journal.
Journal website: https://taikomojikalbotyra.lt/ojs/index.php/taikomoji-kalbotyra
Organizers:
Institute of Applied Linguistics at Vilnius University
Lithuanian Association of Applied Linguistics (LITAKA)
Contacts:
Email: [email protected]
Contact person: Mrs Lina Vaškevičienė
Conference website: http://www.taikomojikalbotyra.flf.vu.lt/en/
