May 24, 2024 - May 25, 2024
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We are pleased to invite researchers and educators to submit abstracts for our upcoming online workshop on "Research Based Practices in the Teaching of Turkish as L2" organized at the University of Toronto. This event aims to foster collaboration and knowledge exchange among researchers and practitioners worldwide in the field of teaching Turkish as a foreign/second/additional/heritage language.
Invited Speakers:
Ayşe Gürel, Boğaziçi University (Confirmed)
Emel Türker, University of Oslo
Venue: Online via Zoom
Registration: Free of charge, Zoom registration required through: https://utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwtceuhqDIoGtAif3Kr6NRSt7fof3vnGWf9
Program: To be announced on the workshop website.
Workshop Website: https://l2turkish.wordpress.com/
Acknowledgement: Gözde Mercan is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.
Language of presentation: English
Contact:
Dr. Gözde Mercan (Chair of the organizing committee)
[email protected]
Submission instructions:
Abstracts may focus on any aspect of the teaching, learning, or processing of Turkish as a foreign/second/additional/heritage language. 150–250-word abstracts should be submitted by 15 April 2024.
As the workshop is open to both practitioners and researchers, submissions may cover, but are not limited to:
- Pedagogical strategies and practices in Turkish language teaching
- Innovative teaching methodologies
- Technology in language teaching
- Assessment and evaluation
- Curriculum development
- Teaching and learning materials
- Cultural aspects in language teaching
- Literature in Turkish language teaching
- Teaching Turkish to young learners/adult learners
- Immersion
- Individual differences among learners
- Cross-linguistic influence, transfer, code-switching
- Acquisition of Turkish as a foreign/second/additional/heritage language
- Turkish language bi-/multilingualism
- Experimental studies on Turkish as a foreign/second/additional/heritage language
- Sociolinguistic aspects of Turkish as a foreign/second/additional/heritage language
- Psycholinguistics studies and research on the processing of Turkish as a foreign/second/additional/heritage language
Submissions open: Feb. 29, 2024 - April 15, 2024
Abstract review period: April 15, 2024 - April 26, 2024