Event

The Second International Conference of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF)

Dates

April 6 — 8, 2009

Venue

Avenue Campus, University of Southampton, UK

Organizer

Center for Applied Language Research (CALR), School of Humanities, Avenue Campus, University of Southampton, UK

Sponsors

Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press

Plenary speakers

* Barbara Seidlhofer, professor of English and applied linguistics, Head of Department of English Studies, University of Vienna, Austria

* Anna Mauranen, professor of English, University of Helsinki, Finland

* Henry Widdowson, emeritus professor of education, University of London, professor of applied linguistics, Essex University, UK

Strands

* Linguistic

* Sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic

* Language policy

* Language teaching

* Language ideology

Panel discussion

The three plenary speakers will be joined in a panel discussion on the final day of the conference by three other key figures in ELF research:

* Alan Firth, senior lecturer in applied linguistics, School of Education Communication and Language Sciences, Newcastle University, UK

* Juliane House, professor of applied linguistics, Hamburg University, German

* Andy Kirkpatrick, Head of the English Department, Hong Kong Institute of Education, China

Registration fees

* Full residential package at Avenue Campus: ￡230 ($341)

* Non residential package: ￡155 ($230)

Contact

* Prof Jennifer Jenkins

(E-mail: j.jenkins@soton.ac.uk)

* Dr Alasdair Archibald

(E-mail: aa3@soton.ac.uk)

For more information, go to www.southampton.ac.uk