Event

　　Australian Council of TESOL Associations (ACTA) 2008 Conference

　　Dates

　　July 10 — 12, 2008

　　Venue

　　Alice Springs Convention Center, Northern Territory, Australia

　　Organizer

　　ACTA

　　Theme

　　Pedagogies of Connection — Developing Individual and Community Identities

　　Keynote speakers

　　* Marcia Langton, AM, Chair of Australian Indigenous Studies, University of Melbourne, Australia

　　* Vaidehi Ramanathan, professor of sociolinguistics, University of California, Davis, US

　　* Alastair Pennycook, professor of language in education, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

　　* Beverly Derewianka, professor of language education, University of Wollongong, Australia

　　* Shelley Wong, associate professor of multicultural/ESL/bilingual education, George Mason University, Fairfax, US

　　* Sinfree Makoni, associate professor of applied linguistics and African American studies, Pennsylvania State University, US

　　Call for abstracts

　　All presenters are required to provide one of the following:

　　* A PowerPoint presentation, handout or non-refereed paper.

　　* A paper for a fully refereed special edition of TESOL in Context, the bi-annual ACTA journal publication.

　　Deadline for submission of refereed papers

　　August 10, 2008 (one month after the conference)

　　Contact

　　Tel: +61 8 8245 9812

　　Fax: +61 8 8340 7800

　　E-mail: acta08@apapdc.edu.au

　　For more information, go to http://www.tesol.org.au/conference