The Fourth International Conference of English as a Lingua Franca

The Fourth International Conference of
English as a Lingua Franca (ELF4)

May 26-28 2011 Hong Kong

Hosted by the Research Centre into Language Education and Acquisition in Multilingual Societies (RCLEAMS) of the Hong Kong Institute of Education

The fourth international conference on English as a Lingua Franca follows on from the highly successful first three conferences in the series, held at the universities of Helsinki (2008),Southampton (2009) and Vienna (2010). This is the first time the conference will be held outside Europe.

Conference Themes

- ELF and Language Policy
- ELF and Language Education
- Describing ELF and Collecting ELF Corpora
- The Sociolinguistics of ELF
- Contact Languages and ELF
- ELF and Multilingualism

Distinguished Plenary Speaker

Professor Henry Widdowson

Keynote Speakers

     Prof Kingsley Bolton, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
     Prof Fuad Abdul Hamied, Indonesia University of Education, Indonesia
     Prof Nobuyuki Honna, Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan

Plenary Panel

     Prof Jennifer Jenkins, University of Southampton, UK
     Prof Anna Mauranen, University of Helsinki, Finland
     Prof Barbara Seidlhofer, University of Vienna, Austria

Premier Sponsor and Exhibitor

Gold Sponsor and Exhibitor

Silver Sponsor

Types of Presentation

There are two types for presentation: Paper Presentations and Poster Displays:

The Paper Presentation discusses and describes work that the presenter is doing or has done in relation to theory, research or practice. (Duration: 30 minutes, including 5 minutes for discussion)
The Poster Display enables participants to post their ideas/thoughts/materials on a notice board (1.8m width x 1.2m height) and answer queries/respond to comments from participants. (Each poster will be displayed for one day during the conference and participants are encouraged to visit the poster stands during the two 30-minute tea breaks.)

Registration

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Important Dates

• Deadline: The deadline for submission of abstracts is January 31st 2011.

• Early-bird registration deadline: March 20, 2011

The Organising Committee

Andy Kirkpatrick, Michelle Gu, David CS Li, Wang Lixun and Michael Chau

Enquiry

Website: www.ied.edu.hk/elf Email: elf@ied.edu.hk Tel: +852 2948 7255