Wednesday, June 20, 2012


International Conference on ‘Empowering the English Language Classroom’ at Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, January 18-19, 2013

The Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, India, invites English language teachers, professionals and research scholars to submit proposals for papers, posters and workshops for the International Conference on ‘Empowering the English Language Classroom.’ The conference will take place at M.N.I.T Jaipur from January 18th to 19th, 2013.

This Conference aims to provide a forum to the international academic community engaged in teaching English language to share their research on modern pedagogical approaches which can empower the English language classroom and enable the learner to communicate effectively in English.

Proposals for individual papers, individual poster presentations, and workshops by preformed panels of two or more experts are invited on the following, or related themes:

Multiple intelligences and learning styles
The use of the internet and multimedia in language teaching
Modern pedagogical approaches and methodologies
English for fieldwork
English for media
English for special purposes
Vocabulary development
Using literature for language teaching
English for professional purposes
Developing learning material for the teaching of English
Intercultural communication
Soft skills and personality development
Developing translation skills
Curriculum and syllabus design
Testing and evaluation
Interdisciplinarity in English language programmes
Challenges in the present-day language classroom.

There will be a time limit of 15 minutes per paper/ 90 minutes per workshop. Individual posters will be presented with other thematically relevant posters.

Please submit the Proposal (not more than 350 words) in MS Word format, Times New Roman, Font size 12, as an email attachment by July 31, 2012. All proposals should be sent to: confenglish.mnit@gmail.com
Acceptance of proposals will be conveyed by August 15, 2012.

Dr Preeti Bhatt & Mrs Nanny Tripathi
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
 Malaviya National Institute of Technology
JLN Marg
Jaipur – 302017
INDIA

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