The proposal submission process is closed.
Extensive Reading Foundation announces the Call for Proposals for the Fourth Extensive Reading World Congress, to be held on the Hongo Campus of Toyo Gakuen University, Tokyo, Japan. The World Congress gathers all those involved with the extensive reading approach – students, teachers, scholars, writers and publishers – under one roof for a conference dedicated purely to extensive reading. Proposals for
- Papers (45 minutes),
- Short Papers (20 minutes)
- Symposia (105 minutes),
- Workshops (2-3 hours) and
- Poster Sessions
should be submitted via the ERWC4 proposal website by 28 February 2017:
http://erfoundation.org/proposals
Proposals are encouraged within the sub-themes below, but are not limited to them:
| Adapting texts Affect & Motivation Book management issues Class readers Comprehensible Input Hypothesis Extensive Listening Grammar How to . . . Internet & E-media L2 learning Language learner literature Languages other than English Learner autonomy Non-linear reading Programme evaluation Publishing issues Rating scales & progress measurement Reading ability Reading for academic purposes Reading for beginners Reading in an electronic age Reading materials Reading speed Reluctant readers Student-made reading materials Theoretical issues Using L1 readers with L2 students Vocabulary Writing Writing reading materials Younger learners |
Applicants will be notified of the status of their proposals by 1 April 2017. Those who require an earlier decision in order to arrange financing may request the same by contacting the committee.
Exhibitors, please use http://erfoundation.org/moodle31 for your submissions. (Access instructions will be sent to each publisher. Contact exec@erfoundation.org if you have not received your credentials.) Deadline for inclusion in preliminary programme: 31 May 2017.