Teaching English for Business Purposes Symposium

The 2008 National Symposium

Hsing Kuo University of Management - Saturday, 22nd November 2008

We are presenting this symposium as a platform for researchers and practitioners to share and collaborate, in hope to have a better understanding of business English and to offer our students the more effective instruction.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Teaching English for business purposes: Bridging theory and practice

Other related topics or issues are also welcome.

Business communication
CALL
Corporate culture
Discourse analysis
Genre analysis
Global English
Material evaluation & presentation
Syllabus (curriculum) design
Teacher training and evaluation
Teaching method & technique / teaching demonstration
Testing and assessment
Translation
All other topics relevant to business English and teaching business English

Submission procedure:

Presentation type: Paper or workshop

Presentation language: English (preferred) or Chinese

Minimal requirement for presentation: An accepted presentation proposal (abstract) will entitle a contributor to present in this symposium, but a full paper is desired.

Vetting: All abstracts will be vetted by the Reviewing Panel of the Conference Organising Committee. Full papers will be screened and then edited into the conference proceedings.

Important dates to remember:

Presentation proposal (abstract) due date: Monday, 14th July 2008

Abstract acceptance notification: Monday, 28th July 2008

Full paper due date: Monday, 29th September 2008

Symposium date: Saturday, 22nd November 2008

Presentation proposal (abstract) guideline:

Send a completed presentation proposal to BOTH
hku_conf_ebp@yahoo.com.tw and english@mail.hku.edu.tw.

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