International Conference on ‘Empowering the English Language Classroom’

International Conference on ‘Empowering the English Language Classroom’ at Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, January 18-19, 2013

The Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, India, invites English language teachers, professionals and research scholars to submit proposals for papers, posters and workshops for the International Conference on ‘Empowering the English Language Classroom.’ The conference will take place at M.N.I.T Jaipur from January 18^th to 19^th, 2013.

This Conference aims to provide a forum to the international academic community engaged in teaching English language to share their research on modern pedagogical approaches which can empower the English language classroom and enable the learner to communicate effectively in English.

Proposals for individual papers, individual poster presentations, and workshops by preformed panels of two or more experts are invited on the following, or related themes:

• Multiple intelligences and learning styles
• The use of the internet and multimedia in language teaching
• Modern pedagogical approaches and methodologies
• English for fieldwork
• English for media
• English for special purposes
• Vocabulary development
• Using literature for language teaching
• English for professional purposes
• Developing learning material for the teaching of English
• Intercultural communication
• Soft skills and personality development
• Developing translation skills
• Curriculum and syllabus design
• Testing and evaluation
• Interdisciplinarity in English language programmes
• Challenges in the present-day language classroom

There will be a time limit of 15 minutes per paper/ 90 minutes per workshop. Individual posters will be presented with other thematically relevant posters.

Please submit the Proposal (not more than 350 words) in MS Word format, Times New Roman, Font size 12, as an email attachment by July 31, 2012. All proposals should be sent to: confenglish.mnit@gmail.com

Acceptance of proposals will be conveyed by August 15, 2012.

Dr Preeti Bhatt & Mrs Nanny Tripathi

Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

Malaviya National Institute of Technology

JLN Marg

Jaipur – 302017

INDIA

Email: confenglish.mnit@gmail.com