GREETINGS FROM THE CLESOL 2010 ORGANISING COMMITTEE

The CLESOL 2010 conference will be held in Dunedin, New Zealand, from Friday 1 October to Monday 4 October 2010.

We would like to welcome all to Dunedin for CLESOL 2010. Expect relevant and inspiring papers addressing language teaching practice, and a strand of papers focusing on applications of sociocultural theory to Second Language Acquisition. There will also be a programme of social activities that will give you a chance to experience some of the city’s cultural and natural wonders.

Registration is now open.

Conference ThemE

What languages are in use in our communities?

When and where are they being learned?
How are they being learned?

What are they being used for?

These questions suggest some of the ways in which context and communication mediate language learning. We invite you to explore these and other questions relevant to language teaching and learning at the 2010 CLESOL conference in Dunedin.

Keynote speakers

Gary Barkhuizen: Associate professor, Universityof Auckland
Rosemary Erlam: Senior lecturer, University of Auckland
Pauline Gibbons: Associate professor, University of Technology, Sydney
David Nunan: Vice-president for Academic Affairs at Anaheim University, California and emeritus professor at the University of Hong Kong
Merrill Swain: Professor emeritus, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada

CONFERENCE VENUE:

King’s High School
270 BayView Road Dunedin

www.kingshigh.school.nz

King's High School is the venue for the 12th CLESOL conference.

Past Conferences