Dear ESPers worldwide,
The following LSP conference in Spain may be of interest to many.
All the best,
Kevin
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Dear colleagues,
We are very pleased to announce the conference GENRES AND LANGUAGES IN DIGITAL COMMUNICATION: TRENDS AND NEW DIRECTIONS to be held in Zaragoza on 28-30 June, 2023. This is a joint international conference that brings together the 21st annual conference of the European Association of Languages for Specific Purposes (AELFE2023) and the 7th Conference of the Asia-Pacific LSP & Professional Communication Association (LSPPC7).
Please find below the titles of our plenary speakers, featured speakers, thematic panels and also pre-conference workshops.
Our plenary speakers:
- Christine B. Feak (University of Michigan, US): "Keeping EAP Writing Instruction Current in the Changing Landscape of Research Communication"
- Eric Friginal (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University): "Linguistic features of (mis)communication in professional, multimodal workplaces: Patterns from corpora and their language policy implications"
- Laura M. Muresan (Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania): "LSP education and research: Evolving priorities and quality dimensions"
- Christine M. Tardy (University of Arizona, US): "LSP in the era of ChatGTP"
Our featured speakers:
- Vijay K. Bhatia (The Chinese University of Hong Kong): "Genre in digitally mediated professional practice"
- John M. Swales (University of Michigan, US): "Genre Analysis and its New Challenges"
The thematic panels will feature presentations on the same topic so that there is room for more focused discussion on the topic.
- Digital science: Sustainable, transformative and transversal
- Multimodality in professional communication
- Publish or Perish: Insights from the Editors and Student Board of English for Specific Purposes
Our plenary speakers will also impart the following pre-conference workshops (attendance to these workshops is free for all registered conference participants):
- "Writing for beyond the ivory tower" (by C. B. Feak)
- Compiling and annotating professional spoken corpora: Trends, tools, and recommendations (by E. Friginal)
- Qualitative methods workshop for investigating academic literacy development (by L.-M. Muresan)
- Integrating new digital academic genres into the writing classroom (by C. M. Tardy)
Please also visit our conference website for further information and deadlines.
https://aelfe-lsppcconference2023.com/
We very much look forward to meeting all of you at the conference.
Best wishes for the New Year!
Carmen Pérez-Llantada (on behalf of the organising committee)
University of Zaragoza
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Dr. Kevin Knight, PhD in Linguistics, MBA, MPIA
Professor
Department of International Communication
Kanda University of International Studies
Japan
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