CELC Symposium

Presentation Strands

Content-based pedagogies
Form-focused instruction
Integrated and multi-skill instruction
Reflective teaching practices
Assessment and evaluation
Multimodality and pedagogy (e.g. multimodal composition practices)
Emerging technologies in language teaching and research
Problem-based pedagogies/Project-based learning
Web 2.0/3.0 collaborative projects
Applications of corpus linguistics to language teaching and learning
Qualitative enquiry in the language classroom (e.g. narrative inquiry, ethnographic analysis)
Industry and academia interface in curriculum design

Types of Presentations

Parallel Papers

These are 20-minute presentations with 10 minutes for Q & A. Presenters discuss their work in relation to theory or practice.

Workshops

These are 60-minute hands-on sessions in which participants will be engaged in structured activities.

Demonstrations

These are 20-minute show-and-tell sessions with 10 minutes for Q & A, for explaining an innovative teaching method, the use of technology in teaching or assessing a particular skill.
(*Please note that these sessions are meant purely for sharing pedagogical methods or tools and not for commercial purposes.)

Poster Presentations

These presentations will run throughout the period of the symposium. As the posters will be changed every day, presenters will be scheduled accordingly. These presentations are meant to provide ideas on classroom instruction. Poster presentations should include examples of learners' output. Presenters will engage their audiences in informal discussions.

Colloquia

These are 40-minute interactive sessions during which the speakers will deliver brief reports on a common topic. The expected number of speakers will be 3-4 and each speaker will have approximately 10 minutes, which leaves some time for Q/A. Speakers will be scheduled based on their areas of expertise. The sessions provide a forum for sharing information.

Tips for Presenters

Please arrive at your venue a few minutes before your presentation to meet your chair and co-presenters (if that is the case) and to set up the equipment.
In the event that the chair is late please make your own introductions and proceed with your presentation as planned.
Please adhere strictly to the time allocated for your presentation in the interest of other presenters and participants. To do this, keep a close watch of the time and leave some time at the end for Q/A.
When preparing your PPT slides, please ensure that you present only key points. If you feel you need to give more details or information that would cause your presentation to exceed the allocated time, please consider putting such information on handouts or continuing with the discussion with interested participants during coffee and lunch breaks.
We advise that you present your ideas rather than read from your notes as this will better engage the audience.
When your time is up, please leave the floor immediately so the next presenter can start on time.
Finally, be prepared to speak with handouts or your notes in case the computer or your PPT slides do not work for some reason.

Submission of Abstracts

A 200-250 word abstract with a title not exceeding 12 words, 50-word bio data and 5 key words should be submitted online at this website https://inetapps.nus.edu.sg/celcecollection/index.aspx no later than 30 September 2012.
All abstracts will be evaluated based on relevance to the Symposium theme and originality of approach for possible acceptance as parallel papers, workshops, demonstrations and posters.
Proposers will be informed by the end of January 2013 as to whether their abstracts have been accepted. The Secretariat reserves the right to decline abstracts without assigning reasons and to suggest for example that an abstract submitted for a paper presentation may be more suitable for a workshop, poster, demonstration or colloquium and vice-versa.

Grant Applications

If you wish to apply for a grant to present at this symposium, please submit a separate application of 500 words to the Secretariat detailing your reasons for the application. Selection will be based on the quality of your abstract, first, and then other factors such as financial need, etc.