The 16th Asia TEFL International Conference

“English Language Teaching in the Changing Glocalised World: Research and Praxis”

Venue: University of Macau, Macau SAR, China

Date: 27-29 June 2018

The 16th Asia TEFL International Conference provides a forum to address the issues that ELT practitioners face in the changing glocalized world. Research into applied linguistics and ELT highlights a tension between two trends. First, the trend towards globalization emphasizes the continuing need for a global lingua franca, a role taken on by English currently. At the same time, recent research recognizes the importance of the local, with local varieties of language developing to serve the needs of multilingual local contexts. All of these developments are taking place in the context of rapid changes in digital media and communication technologies. These tensions and changes require a response that emerges both from state-of-the-art applied linguistic research in ELT and the insights of dedicated practitioners. Our aim for this conference is to bring together the ELT community in Asia so that we can work together to forge a common response to the challenges we face, a response that draws on both research and praxis.

The organizing committee invites proposals on any aspect of applied linguistics and ELT in Asia. Proposals that target the following sub-themes are especially welcome:

1. Language planning and language policy

2. Methodologies and teaching approaches

3. Curriculum and syllabus design

4. Materials design

5. Assessment and evaluation

6. Second language acquisition and literacy development

7. English for academic/specific purposes

8. Teacher education and professional development

9. Programme management and leadership development

10. Digital literacies/language learning and technology

11. Intercultural communication and global competencies

12. Plurilingualism and translanguaging

13. World Englishes/English as a lingua franca

14. Multilingual and multicultural education

15. Other languages

16. Identity and learner autonomy

17. Discourse/genre analysis

18. Creativity and critical literacies

19. Teaching younger learners

20. Teaching adults

21. Working with special needs students

22. English learning and global social developments

Contacts: Mr. Andrew Jiang

Tel: +853 2871 5616

Fax: +853 2871 5606

E-mail: asiatefl2018@gmail.com