‘Crossing Boundaries’
4th Biennial International Conference on Task-Based
Language Teaching

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18-20 November 2011

Under the auspices of the International TBLT Consortium and
the Department of Applied Language Studies and Linguistics, University of Auckland

 
International task-based language teaching conferences aim to bring together researchers and educators with interests in language tasks and task-based teaching from around the world. TBLT conferences, held biennially, have been hosted by Katolieke Universiteit Leuven (2005), University of Hawai’i (2007), and Lancaster University (2009). The 2011 conference will be the first international TBLT conference to be held in the southern hemisphere. The theme of the conference, “Crossing Boundaries” encourages us to explore different perspectives on tasks and language learning and make connections between theory and practice, teaching and research.

Plenary Speakers

Rod Ellis
(University of Auckland, NZ)

Kim McDonough
(Concordia University, Canada.)

Scott Thornbury
(The New School New York, US)


 Featured Colloquia
Convenors and colloquium themes: 

Peter Robinson (Aoyama Gakuin University, JP) Theme: Task complexity Lourdes Ortega (University of Hawai’i, US): Theme: Advances in TBLT research

Martin Bygate (Lancaster University, UK): Theme: Tasks in the language classroom William Littlewood Theme: Tasks in Asian contexts

“Language, Education & Diversity conference”
-  the LED conference is taking place a week after TBLT at the University of Auckland

The International Conference for eLearning Futures
 ICELF is hosted by Unitec, Auckland, 30th November - 2nd December