The committee of The Ninth Biennial National Conference of the Association for Academic Language and Learning invites you to submit an abstract for consideration as:
- Refereed papers
- Non-refereed papers
- Interactive or poster presentation
Abstracts should be around 250-300 words and should reflect a topic of high current interest in language and learning within the educational context. This may include projects or issues relevant to schools, vocational institutes, technical colleges and universities.
This could include presentations in the areas of:
This could include presentations in the areas of:
- Integrative or parallel programs with faculties
- Learning from student experience feedback
- Approaches to intervention- proactive vs. reactive
- Evaluation as a learning tool
- Models of support- What works?
- Closing the loop between ALL staff and faculty staff
- Learning opportunities from secondary or foundation programs
- Building our understanding of multicultural environments and contexts
In particular, the Committee would like to see presentations that examine or profile an interest or issue, as well as offer recommendations and/or an evaluation of work or projects in this field.
Presentation Formats
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Oral presentations:
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Based around a 30 minute time slot: 20 minutes to present, 5 minutes question and answer, 5 minutes for a changeover between presenters.
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Poster presentations:
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To be used only if there are too many papers to present as regular oral presentations. Format requirements will be determined if needed.
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Roundtables/workshops:
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One hour session for facilitated discussions/workshopping of special interest groups (e.g. numeracy support; working with research students; etc.).
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Pre-conference professional development day workshops and meetings:
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ALL staff wishing to run a workshop or convene a meeting may propose the length, structure and costing of whatever they wish to run.
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Submission of Abstracts
Please submit abstracts by 15 May 2009 to David Rowland at d.rowland@uq.edu.au or Janey Saunders at j.saunders2@uq.edu.au
For any inquiries, please contact:
Ø Janey Saunders on j.saunders2@uq.edu.au Phone 07 3365 1237 or
Ø David Rowland d.rowland@uq.edu.au phone 3365 1759
Papers to be posted soon