CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Proposals for papers, colloquia, and posters regarding theory and research in second language acquisition are invited, especially interdisciplinary approaches to second language acquisition, in keeping with the conference theme "Collage and Collaboration". Submitters should specify one of the general research strands below under which they wish their proposal to be evaluated. Reviewers may consider re-assigning proposals to other strands with the submitter's permission.

General Research Strands

1. Theoretical and empirical approaches to foreign/second/other language acquisition and development
2. Theoretical and empirical approaches to foreign/second/other language instruction (including, but not limited to, classroom research and pedagogy)
3. Linguistic analyses (including, but not limited to, phonetics/phonology, discourse analysis, conversation analysis, and syntax) *
4. Bi- and multi-lingualism *
5. Language, culture, and society *
6. Language, neuroscience, and cognition *
7. Language testing, planning, and policy development *

To encourage collaboration, the theme of the conference, individuals should submit no more than one first-authored proposal. In other words, a single individual can be listed as first or solo author on only one proposal, though that same individual can be a secondary author on other proposals.

Proposals will be accepted for the following formats:

• Paper Presentations: 30 minutes long with a 10-minute discussion period. Submissions should include an abstract of no more than 400 words and a program summary of no more than 50 words.
• Colloquium Presentations: 2 hours long, to be divided as needed by the colloquium organizer. Individual presenters should submit papers as above, and the colloquium organizer should submit a colloqium proposal with an abstract of no more than 400 words and a program summary of no more than 100 words. After all the papers have been submitted separately, the organizer should link them to the colloquium proposal.
• Poster Presentations: to be displayed for a 2-hour block of time. Posters should meet basic size and design specifications to be supplied by the SLRF conference organizers.

submission of proposals

The call for proposals is closed. Acceptance notification will be mid-August.

evaluation of proposals

Abstracts for individual presentations are evaluated by a team of reviewers from the relevant strand in each of the following categories:

• Topic must be relevant, timely and important to the field
• Presentation must include innovative and original research
• Research question(s), data collection procedures and analytic approaches must be clearly indicated
• Presentation must be well-organized
• Papers will be judged separately from colloqium proposals, so that if a colloqium proposal is rejected, a paper originally linked to that colloqium may still be accepted.

Please direct questions to the SLRF 2004 committee