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 Sunday April 27 2008

JALT CALL 2008 conference

the JALT CALL 2008 conference is just around the corner. There’s more info on the site if you are interested. Wish I could go, but unfortunately I won’t be able to make it.

Title
* New Frontiers in CALL: Negotiating Diversity

Venue and Dates
* Saturday, 31st May - Sunday, 1st June, 2008
* Faculty of Foreign Languages and Asian Studies
* Nagoya University of Commerce & Business
* 4-4 Sagamine, Komenoki-cho, Nisshin-shi, Aichi-ken, 470-0193 Japan

Keynote Speaker
* Phil Hubbard Ph.D.
Director, English for Foreign Students
Senior Lecturer in Linguistics, Stanford University, USA

Plenary Speaker
* Gavin Dudeney
Project Director, The Consultants-E
* The Internet and the Language Classroom (Cambridge University Press, 2000)
* How to Teach English with Technology (Longman, 2007)



Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Sunday Apr 27, 2008 at 08:01 PM
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