Submitting an Abstract
Abstracts are due by 1 September and final papers by 15 November (at the very latest) so that they can be made available to conference participants on-line prior to the conference. The conference will be organised around a number of workshops/symposia and discussants will comment on the work presented. It is hoped that a collection of the best papers can be published.
Please submit a 400-500 word abstract as a Word document by 1 September. You can expect to receive notification of the acceptance of your paper by mid-September.
A condition of each presenter's paper is that an electronic version be submitted to the conference organisers by 15 November so that these can be made available to those who have registered for the conference in advance and to discussants who will comment upon papers during the conference.NO EXTENTION OF THIS DATE WILL BE POSSIBLE .
Instructions for Authors of abstracts and conference papers
(based upon the ALAA conference guidelines)
Abstract guidelines
Sample Abstract: Acrobat (pdf) format | Rich Text (rtf) format
- Please use Word format
- Set your computer to:
- Paper Size: A4 (not Letter or Custom)
- Margins: Left and Right set to 2.5 cm
- Typeface and Font: Times New Roman 12 point.
- Alignment: Use left aligned throughout
- Length: 400-500 words
- Give title, author(s), and institutional address: Title in upper case and bold; Author(s) name(s) should be typed immediately below title, followed by institutional affiliation
- Leave two lines before the commencement of the abstract text
- Programming
details: Please indicate the conference theme that your paper addresses:
- Discourse, internationalization and change
- Processes of discourse acquisition and production
- Nexus between academic and professional discourses
- Disciplinary discourses and practices, e.g.,
- argumentation
- reading-to-write
- critical thinking
- metadiscourses
- Social and technological mediation
of language learning
- Computer-mediated learning
- Collaborative work in language classes
- Social networking and language learning
- Motivation
- Gender and LOTE learning
- Discourse, internationalization and change
- Contact details for submitting author: name, address and email.
- Please send abstract as an email attachment to Helen Marriott (Helen.Marriott@arts.monash.edu.au ) with the heading Learning Discourses conference
Paper guidelines
Please follow the guidelines to authors (pdf format | rtf format) currently used by ALAA (http://www.latrobe.edu.au/alaa/aral.htm)
Papers can be 5000-7000 words.
A further abstract before the paper is unnecessary.