Hotel Plaza, Herceg Novi, Montenegro

Hosted by:
University of Montenegro, Institute of Foreign Languages

The topics of the Conference are:
1. Linguistics (phonetics, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, discourse analysis, contrastive linguistics, sociolinguistics, cognitive linguistics...)
2. Language for specific purposes (needs analysis, material design, testing, vocabulary and grammar in language for specific purposes...)
3. Translation (literary and technical translation, consecutive and simultaneous interpreting, translation studies curricula, theories and research in translation studies...)
3. Literature (literary theories, literary criticism, narratology, literature curricula in pholology studies, reception of foreign literatures...)
5. Methodology of teaching foreign langugages (theories and practices in foreign language teaching, testing, error analysis...)
6. Intercultural communication (langugages, literature and cultures in contact...)

Plenary speakers:
Michael McCarthy, University of Nottingham, UK
Ranko Bugarski, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Tatiana Larina, Peoples' Friendship University Moscow, Russia

'Empirical Studies in English Applied Linguistics'

'Language, Culture and Civilization -
New Roads to Success'

Hosted by:
The Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Romania,
The Faculty of Engineering in Foreign Languages (FILS),
The Chair of Communication in Modern Languages

Splaiul Independentei, 313, Sector  6,
Bucuresti 021/4029197

Papers (in English, French, German, Russian and Romanian) are invited for the following sections:
- Methodology of Foreign Languages
- Linguistics and Translation Studies
- Psychology, Philosophy, Sociology
- Communication and Media
- Literary and Cultural Studies

The papers will be published in the volume of the proceedings by a CNCSIS-accepted publishing house.

Third Pearl River Delta (PRD) English Studies Graduate Student Conference

Conference title:
'Taking Interdisciplinary Challenges in English Studies'

The conference this year will consist of:
- Keynote Speeches
- Plenary Presentations with Invited Speakers
- Parallel Paper Sessions
- Symposium (a collection of papers on related topics)
- Workshops
- Poster Sessions

Canterbury Christ Church University, England, Department of English and Language Studies

Theme: 'Discourse, Context and Language Education'

Thursday 25 June 2009:
Specialist day: Online Discourse: Computer Mediated Discourse Analysis
Speakers: Professor David Crystal, Mark Pegrum (University of Western Australia)

Friday 26 June and Saturday 27 June 2009:
Main conference: Discourse, Context and Language Education

This conference will be of interest to language teachers and academics interested in these areas:
- Researching discourse and context in language education
- Implications for the classroom
- Critical approaches to materials and task design, evaluation and use
- The roles of discourse, context and culture in teaching and learning
- Discourse in teacher education