The International Association for Language Learning Technology (IALLT) and the Japan Association for Language Education & Technology (J-LET) are pleased to announce our sixth joint Foreign
Language Education and Technology Conference (FLEAT VI), to be held at Harvard University, August 11-15, 2015.
The theme for FLEAT VI is “Identities, Communities, and Technologies in Global Environments”. New technologies are erasing the boundaries between practitioners of languages and cultures
across the world, and are providing learners and teachers opportunities to build communities of interest and engagement within and outside the language classroom. Students are engaged as never before in using social networks to transcend geography. Access
to authentic materials enables students to research and develop informed perspectives on the lives of others. Distance and hybrid approaches to instruction call into question the very notions of classroom and community, and challenge us to rethink the possibilities
for building communities around language and culture instruction outside the comforting presence of physical “place”.
TOPICS
The organizers welcome 300-word abstracts on the following suggested areas of interest, equally focused in the fields of language and culture pedagogy, instructional methods involving
the innovative application of technologies, language technologies in the K-12 space, and language technology center development and administration. Topic areas include, but are not limited to:
Technologies and Social Networks for Language Learning
Language Learning and Communities Outside the Classroom
Cultural Identities, Technology and Language Learning
Best Practices in Computer-Assisted Language Learning
Professional Development Solutions and Challenges
New Frameworks for Distance Education and Hybrid Environments
Innovative Practices in K-12 Language and Cultural Learning
Language Technology Center Administration
Online Language Learning
Virtual Environments and Gaming in Language Learning
Ownership, Publication, and Use in Technological Environments
Mobile Language Learning
SESSION TYPES
Please consider proposing a presentation of one or more of the following six types:
1. Full day pre-conference workshop (6 hours)
2. Half day pre-conference workshop (3 hours)
3. 75 minute panel presentation
4. poster presentation
5. 25 minute presentation
6. 50 minute presentation
Abstracts may be submitted at
http://silc-lss-dev.asu.edu/fleat-vi. You do *not* need to create an account to submit an abstract
proposal. Questions regarding the abstract process may be sent to
[log in to unmask]. The deadline for abstract submission is December 31, 2014.