UGC merged - National Seminar on Applied Linguistics & Language Teaching

Chief Patron

Dr.Col. G.Thiruvasagam

Vice-Chancellor

University of Madras

Chennai – 600 005

Patron

Dr.P.Saravanan

Registrar

University of Madras

Chaiman

Dr.R.Rajkumar

Director,

IDE,University of Madras

Convener

Dr.P. Aruna Devi

Assistant Professor of English

Institute of Distance Education

University of Madras

Chief Consultant

Dr.KM.Prabhu

Associate Professor of English

Presidency College

Chennai

Advisory Committee

Dr.Saraswathy

Dr.N.Deivasundaram

Dr.Bharathi Harishankar

Prof .Vijalakshmi Srinivas

Dr.Armstrong

Dr.Alagarasan

Dr.K.Elango

Conference Coordinators

Prof.S.Balasubramaniam

Dr.R.Gowrishankar

Prof.R.Balamukunthan

Organizing Committee

Prof. Mohammed Ali

Dr.S.Kamakshi

Prof.P.Siddarthan

Prof.K.Kamalakannan

Prof .T.Vijayakumar

Prof. P. Asaithambi

Prof.Sadikul Ameen

Treasurer

Prof.Beena Anil

Dr.E.S.Latha

Last Date for abstract : 8 th Feb 2011

Intimation of Acceptance : 10th Feb 2011

Last Date for receiving DD

and Registration form : 25th Feb 2011

UGC merged -

National Seminar

on

Applied Linguistics

&

Language Teaching

15th & 16th March 2011

Organized by

Institute of Distance Education

University of Madras

Chennai – 600 005

Tamil Nadu, India

Venue: Platinum Jubilee Auditorium

ORI – Parithimar Kalaignar Campus

University of Madras

Ph: 044 25613810

About the University

University of Madras is a prestigious institution established on 5th September 1887 and is looked upon as a mother of all old universities of southern India. This University has been growing from strength to strength widening its teaching and research activities. It has 43 extended research Institutions apart from the research institutes within the university. The University has produced two Nobel Laureates, Dr.C.V.Raman and Dr. Subramanya Chandrasehhar(Physics) in 1930 and 1983 respectively. The University is accredited to “five star Status” by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council [NACC] and UGC has conferred the title “University with Potential for Excellence” with great aplomb.

About IDE

University of Madras has developed an excellent Institute of Distance Education in 1981 to help learners to achieve their educational career and personal goals. It has completed more than 30 years of service in the field of Distance Education by reaching out students from nook and corner of the country and beyond.

Now the IDE is offering 22 undergraduate Courses, 14 Postgraduate Courses, 9 Postgraduate Science Courses, 5 Professional Courses, 16 Diploma Courses and 12 Certificate Courses.

About the Seminar

Language is multidimensional and language teaching involves various disciplines. Hence, a language teacher needs to be an expert in many fields. This seminar renders an opportunity to explore several disciplines that help a teacher to teach English effectively. English being a global language has become a second language in all most all the countries. What are the fields an English teacher should look into? Translation process -from mother tongue to English and vice versa- paves way for a good knowledge of both the languages. Technology and related disciplines like computational linguistics and corpus linguistics are potential areas of study. Similarly, since language is also experience based , cognitive linguistics play a major role in language teaching .The following are the thrust areas of the conference

Thrust Areas

Psycho linguistics

Cognitive Linguistics

Technology and Language teaching

Pragmatics

Corpus Linguistics

Computational Linguistics

ELT and Translation

Call for papers

Research papers are invited on any one of the given themes. Papers should be submitted in accordance with the following guidelines.

1. Full name as it should appear in certificate.

2. Designation & College Address with email.

3. Title of the paper.

4. Abstract (not more than 100 words) should be sent to

alltmar2011@gmail.com

alltmar2011@hotmail.com

Registration form will be sent along with the acceptance letter. Registration fee is Rs.750/-

For further details contact

Dr.Aruna Devi : 9444456378

Prof.Beena Anil : 9884471045

Prof. Balamunkuthan : 9841962220

Travel and Accommodation:

Participants are requested to make their own arrangements for travel and accommodation. Accommodation can be availed at nominal charges from:

1. The World University Centre, No.18, Mayor Ramanathan Salai, Chetpet, Chennai-31,

Ph. 28364422 / 28362251.