Abstracts

We welcome proposals in two categories: papers and panels (Please check the formatting guidelines. The deadline for submission of abstracts is September 15, 2010 via the online proposal form. Decisions will be relayed to authors by early October.

To submit an abstract for review, please use the online submission forms:

Guidelines for Abstracts

Papers (30 minutes)
Abstracts for papers should be a maximum of 500 words. Papers should report on original research that directly addresses the conference theme. Both conceptual and empirical papers are welcome; only papers with well definite pedagogical implications will be considered.  Each paper is designated 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for discussion.

Panels (90 minutes)
Panel proposals should include a maximum of three papers linked to a particular theoretical or methodological approach. A panel proposal consists of an overview contributed by the session chair (who may also be a presenter), plus abstracts for each of the papers included in the panel. The proposal should not exceed 1,000 words.

Proposal Material Needed:

E-mail proposals should be submitted by 15 September 2010 to:
Teaching-arabic2011@lists.qatar.cmu.edu

Areas of interest include (but are not restricted to):

  • Theoretical Linguistics
  • Applied Linguistics
  • Computational Linguistics
  • Socio and Psycholinguistics
  • Pragmatics
  • Teaching Pedagogies

For further information, contact conference organizers at:
Teaching-arabic2011@lists.qatar.cmu.edu

Organizers:

Dr. Zeinab Ibrahim, CMUQ
Dr. Amal AlMalki, CMUQ
Dr. Abdel Qader Abu Shariefeh, QU
Dr. Mustafa Mughazy, Western Michigan University