UPDATE: NEWS FROM APIT
Dear colleagues,
APIT is glad to inform you that May 29th is the new deadline for the submission of proposals for the XXXVI FAAPI Conference to be held in Tucuman on September 22nd, 23rd and 24th. If you have not submitted your proposal, please send it to us by using our online “Presenter’s Form” on our website.
We look forward to hearing from you soon,
APIT’s Executive Committee

XXXVI FAAPI CONFERENCE
COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING AND LEARNING REVISITED
What more than three decades of experience have taught us
San Miguel de Tucumán, 22nd -24th September 2011

Organized by APIT; Asociación de Profesores de Inglés de Tucumán

CALL FOR PAPERS

The purpose of this Conference is to create a reflection and discussion forum which synthesizes both new and old perspectives on communicative language teaching and learning.

We have witnessed the emergence and advancement of various disciplines, theories, approaches and methods since the initial tenets of CLT were put forward almost three decades ago, so a review of their current pedagogical approximations should be crucial to understand how concepts such as classroom communication are understood at the present moment. Besides, the results of theoretical and researchbased approaches to teaching and learning communicatively have also faced validity issues when applied to the classroom context. This and other related issues will be the core of the Conference but they will definitely be enhanced by teachers’ expertise and their proposals.

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Guidelines for Submitting Proposals
The 2011 FAAPI Conference organizers invite teachers, teacher trainers, researchers and materials developers to submit proposals for presentations. Submissions must follow one of the following types:

· 40 Minute Papers: A paper tells the participants something about what presenters are doing or have done, in relation to theory and practice (classroom experience or research). We strongly recommend that presenters use audio-visual aids during the session. There will be 30 minutes for the presentation and 10 to interact with the audience.
· 90 Minute Workshops: A workshop is a session in which there is active audience participation via the experiencing and discussing of tasks provided by the presenters. Most of the time available should be devoted to demonstrating materials or activities that have been developed and tried out by the presenter(s). Theoretical discussion is usually kept to a minimum, but time is built in for questions and comments from the audience. For publication, workshops should follow the same guidelines as those for 40 minute papers.

The Content of your Session
Your proposal will be considered for inclusion in the programme if it fulfils the following criteria:
· You have not given this session, or a version of this session, at a previous conference.
· It is clear from your summary that you have something new to say or that you plan to shed new light on a topic which has been aired at other conferences and in print. It should also be clear that you have taken into account the level of knowledge of the expected audience you indicate in the presenter’s form.
· If your presentation relies heavily on a description of your local situation, ensure that you discuss either the implications for people working in similar contexts, or its general relevance.

Subthemes
The Academic Committee will take into consideration the following subthemes to classify and organize the proposals.
Methodological implications:
o Single approaches, eclecticism or post-method era?
o Cognitive learning and communication
o Teaching materials and communicative language teaching and learning
o Communication oriented activities and tasks.
Cultural awareness in the communicative class
Discursive practices and communicative language teaching:
o Diction (phonetics, phonology or “expression”) and communicative language teaching
o Lexico-grammar and communicative language teaching
o Pragmatics and communicative language teaching
o Discourse analysis / text grammar and communicative language teaching.
o Intelligibility and comprehensibility vs. accuracy?
The role of TICs in the communicative classroom
Evaluation in the context of the communicative language teaching and learning

Given equivalent academic merit, papers from members of F.A.A.P.I. Associations will be given preference.

Deadline for submission of abstract and summary 29th April 2011.

For further information, contact FAAPI 2011 Organizing Committee at http://www.faapitucuman.com.ar or faapitucuman2011@marcelasantoro.com