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Call for Proposals

Real Language, Real Life A Celebration of Foreign Language Education: rd 3 Annual Monterey Bay Foreign Language Symposium Saturday, May 3rd, 2014 Hosted by: the Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS) Monterey, California Presented by: Students of the MATFL and MATESOL programs in the Graduate School of Translation, Interpretation and Language Education (GSTILE) at the Monterey Institute of International Studies

Submissions are encouraged from all teachers, graduate students, or other professionals working in the foreign language education field, including EFL. Abstracts may be submitted for presentations (formal lecture style with time for questions), interactive workshops, panel discussions or posters. Submissions should be relevant to the theme of this years Symposium: Real Language, Real Life.

Particularly relevant topics include, but are not limited to: Authentic materials for language learning and authentic opportunities to practice language (i.e. telecollaboration and accessing heritage speakers as resources for learning) Social relevance in language instruction Service learning Development of intercultural communicative competency Content-based instruction (CBI) Careers relating to language education

Submission Guidelines* The guidelines are provided below as well as on the Symposium website: http://sites.miis.edu/montereybayfleds/ The deadline for submission of abstracts will be Friday, February 28, 2014. Notification of acceptance of submissions will be sent via email by Friday, March 14, 2014. Submissions will be accepted through this online form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1l4paAV5LaKaxbeaEWWoDKnGwb0mloZ U4y_5swtOqkgI/viewform Please provide the following information: Whether the abstract is for a presentation, interactive panel discussion or practical workshop/demonstration, or a poster (All sessions will be allotted 50 minutes. Presentation speakers should limit their presentations to 40 minutes to allow time for questions.) The name(s) and affiliation of the author(s) The preferred method of notification: email, phone and mailing address The title of the presentation (no more than 10 words) An abstract no longer than 250 words including the focus of the presentation and its relevance to current work being done in the field The language in which the presentation will be given Interpretation into English from Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Russian or Spanish will be provided by MIIS students of interpretation A description of any equipment needed Any additional information Whether or not you would like to be considered to give a poster presentation if your abstract not selected for a full presentation B.U.I.L.D teachers and MIIS students are also encouraged to submit proposals. Presenters will be selected based on the reviewers evaluation of the anonymous abstracts. Symposium registration can be completed at: http://sites.miis.edu/montereybayfleds/ General inquiries about proposal submissions can be sent to http://sites.miis.edu/montereybayfleds/ via Contact Us page.

*Please also note that accepted submissions may be considered for publishing in a conference proceeding.

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