{"id":8831,"date":"2016-01-18T18:14:45","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T18:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/?p=8831"},"modified":"2016-02-29T08:15:03","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T08:15:03","slug":"call-for-papers-individuals-in-contexts-psychology-of-language-learning-2-or-pll2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/?p=8831","title":{"rendered":"Call for papers &#8211;  Individuals in Contexts: Psychology of Language Learning 2 (or PLL2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please see the call for\u00a0presentation proposals in this international conference, organized for the second time. The first one was held in Graz, Austria, in May 2014.<\/p>\n<p>This one will be held from\u00a0<strong>Monday, August 22 \u2013 Wednesday, August 24, 2016 <\/strong>at the<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>University of Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4, Finland<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Conference theme<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The conference will focus on the role of psychology in learning and teaching languages and address among other things such key issues in the field as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>learners and teachers as individuals with various aspects of their psychology involved, including self-concept, motivation, identities, beliefs, agency, emotions, strategies, styles, etc.,<\/li>\n<li>the learning process and its outcomes, and<\/li>\n<li>the diversity of contexts where the learning and teaching of languages takes place these days.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Academic programme<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In addition to the talks delivered by plenary speakers, the programme will consist of paper and poster sessions, colloquia and workshops.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Talks\u00a0<\/strong>by plenary speakers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Phil Benson<\/strong><\/span>, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Maggie Kubanyiova<\/strong><\/span>, University of Birmingham, UK<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"color: #993300;\">\u00a0<strong><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jyu.fi\/en\/congress\/pll2016\/programme\/mercer\" target=\"_blank\">Sarah Mercer<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, University of Graz, Austria<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Presentations\u00a0<\/strong>by conference participants<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The submission of proposals opens on\u00a0<strong>February 1, 2016<\/strong>\u00a0(see\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jyu.fi\/en\/congress\/pll2016\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.jyu.fi\/en\/congress\/pll2016<\/a>), and closes on\u00a0<strong>March 15, 2016<\/strong>. The submitting is done by filling out an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/congress.cc.jyu.fi\/pll2016\" target=\"_blank\">online form<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Types of presentations<\/strong>: 1) paper, 2) poster, 3) colloquium (with thematically related papers, discussion and audience participation), and 4) workshop (with hands-on\u00a0 activities based on some data or a specific topic)<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Length of abstracts<\/strong>: paper or poster (300 words, max., including references), colloquium (500 words, max., including titles of papers but no mention of presenters by name; and if a proposal is accepted, an abstract will be requested for each paper, 300 words, max.); workshop (500 words, max.)<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Length of presentations in the conference<\/strong>: paper (20 min. and 10 min. for questions and answers), poster (size AO, max.), colloquium (90 or 180 min.), workshop (90 min.)<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Language policy<\/strong>: The language of the conference is English. If a presentation is based on data in any other language, use of multilingual material (e.g. in Power Point slides, handouts) is recommended.<\/p>\n<p>The proposals for any type of presentation will be evaluated anonymously by at least two members of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jyu.fi\/en\/congress\/pll2016\/scientific-committee\">PLL Scientific Committee<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jyu.fi\/en\/congress\/pll2016\/organizers\">Organizing Committee<\/a>, and they will be evaluated for their<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>contribution to the field<\/li>\n<li>quality of content<\/li>\n<li>thematic relevance<\/li>\n<li>quality of abstract (organization, clarity of expression)<\/li>\n<li>for colloquia\/workshops: clear schedule of activities, discussion and\/or audience participation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Proposal acceptances will be sent out by\u00a0<strong>early May 2016<\/strong>\u00a0(see\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jyu.fi\/en\/congress\/pll2016\/important-dates\" target=\"_blank\">Important Dates<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The conference will be held in\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/paviljonki.fi\/en\/paviljonki-english\" target=\"_blank\">Paviljonki<\/a><\/em>, a modern conference centre, in the heart of Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4, Finland.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Registration<\/strong>\u00a0will open on the conference website on May 2. Those whose proposals get accepted will have to register by May 15. The conference fee is EUR 225\u2013300 for regular participants and EUR 100 for students, and it includes lunch and refreshments.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The social programme<\/strong>\u00a0will include a conference dinner in a restaurant with panoramic views over the City of Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4, and a half-a-day excursion to M\u00e4ntt\u00e4, a great destination for lovers of fine arts and nature \u2013 about 1.5 h drive west of Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4. The dinner and excursion are for additional fees.<\/p>\n<p>For any queries, please email:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:pll2016@jyu.fi\">pll2016@jyu.fi<\/a>\u00a0or visit our website at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jyu.fi\/en\/congress\/pll2016\">https:\/\/www.jyu.fi\/en\/congress\/pll2016<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Organizing Committee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please see the call for\u00a0presentation proposals in this international conference, organized for the second time. The first one was held in Graz, Austria, in May 2014. This one will be held from\u00a0Monday, August 22 \u2013 Wednesday, August 24, 2016 at the\u00a0University of Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4, Finland Conference theme The conference will focus on the role of psychology in learning and teaching languages [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[516,352,322,126,130,310],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p865eh-2ir","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8831"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8831"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9045,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8831\/revisions\/9045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}