TWELFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Kathmandu: 17-19 February 2007

CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS
NELTA is organising its TWELFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE from 17-19 February 2007 in Kathmandu. The Conference is a professional get together of a large number of ELT practitioners, methodologists, textbooks/material writers, teacher trainers, etc. from all parts of Nepal and abroad. The participants at the Conference are usually ELT practitioners from public as well as private educational organisations and from all levels of education - primary to university.

The theme of the TWELFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE is:
Mainstreaming Life with English: Situating English in Second/Foreign Language Contexts
The presentations are expected to touch upon the issues related to English as a tool to mainstreaming process of one’s life and its repercussions regarding language pedagogy, language policy and planning, social and economic aspects. The presentations may be research-based, experience based, arguments or opinions. While we are open to presentations in any area of English language teaching, however, the following areas are the main focus:
• English and Mainstreaming of Life
• English and Social Mobility
• English and empowerment
• English and marginalisation
• Classroom sociology and the English classrooms in the third world
• English, the rich, the poor: a divider or a unifier?
• The position of English in national educational language planning

The Conference will organise plenary sessions, talks/papers, workshops, poster presentations, etc. Exhibitions of ELT materials and books will also be organised.

We would be grateful if you agree to do a session during the conference. Please fill out the enclosed “Presenters’ Proposal Form” giving details of your presentation(s) and send it to NELTA, GPO BOX NO. 11110, Kathmandu, Nepal by December 31 2006.

For further details, please contact
Laxman Gnawali
General Secretary
NELTA
GPO BOX NO 11110, Kathmandu, Nepal
Phone: +977-1– 4229299/5544656/ Mobile +977-9841-285284
Email:

Soorce :
Lekhnath Pathak
Department of Loinguistics, TU