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About the Symposium |
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Why a symposium?Among us graduate students at the Language Education Department, there are resourceful people from all over the world. A lot of us have written papers in many forms, including research-based, theory-based, and practice-based. Many of which have been accepted for presentation at local or international conferences here in the U.S. and overseas. Those of which that have not been presented are also of high quality and relevance; you, for instance, might have received very positive reviews by and encouragement from your professors. Or you may simply have something that you have developed over the years at IU and wish to share with your friends. Why then should we not have a stage for sharing among us? Also, in the near future, we will have
our own student-led Language Education Online Journal
established. We hope that the symposium will work as a scouting
field for work that reaches publication standards.
We plan to make it real, yet as
friendly and non-threatening as possible. This is
a learning community in which members are friends willing to fulfill
and learn from one another. Presenters will get useful feedback
from colleagues while the audience will get to learn of many
different experiences from all over the world. We accept all kinds of work in all
areas of concentration: EFL/ESL, Elementary childhood education,
Reading and Literacy, CALL (Computer-Assisted Language Learning),
etc. The work can be research-based, theory-based, or
practice-based, or even anything else that is not of the three kinds
but is related to language education. We plan to include work from
other departments that is relevant to language education in the
future, too. For now, anything that can reach the audience within
20 minutes will do. We intend to have only three to four
presentations of 20 minutes each so that our symposium can be
wrapped up within no more than an hour or 1.5 hours. We expect you
to present for 10-15 minutes and leave the rest of the time
for QAs. However, you can let us know in advance if you wish to have
the whole session last for 30 minutes. Just email us, Dr. Nyikos
(nyikos@indiana.edu); or Mi
Hyun
(mimchung@indiana.edu); or We intend to have only three to four
presentations of 20 minutes each so that our symposium can be
wrapped up within no more than an hour or 1.5 hours. We expect you
to present for 10-15 minutes and leave the rest of the time
for QAs. However, you can let us know in advance if you wish to have
the whole session last for 30 minutes.
When is this monthly symposium held? When is the deadline for submitting proposals for each month? You can submit your paper or
presentation details (title and summary) to us any time for future
presentations. Ideally, we would like your proposal to reach us
about one month in advance before your actual presentation to take
place in order to allow for communication and your preparation. If
we receive too many proposals for a month, we shall move some of
them to the following month. Great question! Yes, we need interested
people to help as organizers. Email or talk to any
one of us if you are
interested in helping. We need an organizing committee for
each month's event. We wish promote rotation of leadership and
make this our tradition, in which the latest organizers shall look
for and support the successive team. Please
feel free to write to any of the steering committee members to
express your interest to help.
This page was last updated on
01/04/2009
by Snea Thinsan. | |||||||
