 The 2013 International Conference
on Applied Linguistics at Taipei Tech (APLX 2013), to be hosted by the Taipei
Tech Department of English on November 14-15, 2013, will bring together
researchers interested in language, discourse, SLA, translation, cultural
studies, and other related fields to report new research findings, exchange
innovative ideas, and share frameworks in these areas. This annual international event
was launched in 2006 with the International Conference Sustainability and the
Literary Imagination: Transdisciplinary and Intercultural Perspectives as
conference theme, where we inquired into ecological issues from a literary
perspective. In 2008, we hosted System, Norm and the Societal: A Conference on
“Translation Studies as Science” and reflected on the socio-cultural issues
behind the activity of translating. In 2009, we deliberated on language
instruction, its research and development, at the Applied Linguistics and
Sociolinguistics: the Form and the Content (aka NTUTAPPLINGX 2009). In 2010, we
explored silence in all its dimensions at the Silent & Ineffable: Functions
of the Unsaid in Literature and the Humanities, where a total of 30 quality
papers were presented by scholars from here and abroad. The event continues on
into 2011, in which we explored with colleagues on Applied Linguistics and
Language Learning: Diversity and Innovation at NTUTAPPLINGX 2011. And in 2012,
we explored in the Aesthetics of Suffering conference how art has helped us
understand and experience pain. This year, we continue this
tradition hoping to attract a greater number of international researchers to
present research findings in their areas of expertise, with a view to
facilitate productive exchanges and fruitful interaction between participants and
stimulate new ideas and research directions in their respective fields of
study.
Conference
Themes
Applied Linguistics: pragmatics,
phraseology, discourse analysis, text linguistics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics,
corpus linguistics, language and culture, language and technology, language
assessment, corpus linguistics, cross-linguistic and cross-cultural
communication, gender studies, and other relevant topics Foreign Language Teaching Theory
and Practice: L2 acquisition/SLA, content-based instruction,
multi-/cross-cultural issues in English education, technology and English
education, and other relevant topics ESP Research and Teaching:
technical writing, corpus resources, English for vocational
education/business/tourism/science/medicine/technology/management, innovations
in ESP curriculum design, international/inter-cultural communication, trends
and challenges in English for specific purposes Translation Studies: theory and
practice of interpretation and translation, interpretation and translation
theory, interpretation and translation practice, interpretation and translation
teaching
Website: http://taipei-tech.com/aplx/ |
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