International Conference
on
Re-mapping the Future of Postcolonial Studies: Apprehensions and Utopias
10 February 2016
Kazi Nazrul University
Friday, January 29, 2016
Tuesday, January 26, 2016
Tenth Students' Conference of Linguistics in India 2016
| Tenth Students' Conference of Linguistics in India | ||||||
| 5-6 March, 2016 Department of Linguistics, Foreign and Indian Languages, RTM Nagpur University, Nagpur 
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International Congress on English Grammar (ICEG-2016)
International Congress on English Grammar (ICEG-2016)
February 8-12, 2016
Organised by
Department of English, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar (Punjab), INDIA
in collaboration with
Systemic Functional Linguistics Association, Hyderabad
Inaugural Address
by
Professor Christian Matthiessen, Department of English
Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong
Theme: Linguistics, English Grammar, Text Analysis & Translation
Research Papers and Workshops are invited on the following topics***:
1. Systemic Functional Linguistics: Theory and Practice2. Englsh Grammar: SFL and Other Approaches
3. Text Analysis and Interpretation
4. Linguistics and English Language Teaching
5. Focus on Language in Literary Theories
6. Language, Power and Media Studies
7. Register, Genre and Other Language Varities
8. English and Other Languages: A Comparative Study
9. Linguistic and Translation Studies
***These are only suggestive areas, but not an exhaustive list. Therefore the participants are
free to select any other topic which can relate to the theme of the congress.
For more information visit http://gndu.ac.in/gndu2014/ICEG2016/index.html
RELC INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2016
51st RELC INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2016, SINGAPORE
Teaching Literacies - Emerging Pathways and Possibilities
in Language Education
14 – 16 March 2016
51st RELC INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2016, SINGAPORE
Teaching Literacies - Emerging Pathways and Possibilities in Language Education 14 – 16 March 2016
Teachers are constantly exploring new pedagogical approaches in an effort to engage learners and meet their divergent needs. Teaching practice has evolved to better respond to how learners learn, and this has led to the emergence of new pathways and possibilities for language learning. The theme, “Teaching Literacies…” has relevance for language education. Teaching as an enterprise must engage learners who are actively and creatively involved in directing their own learning.
From rural communities to the highly urbanized, the advent of information and communication technologies has left an indelible imprint on language education. The meaning of literacy has slowly changed. It has taken on new dimensions, incorporating a multi-literacies approach to pedagogy. Innovative teaching practices which integrate a focus on literacies-building can support learning. Regardless of language policies and language practice for educators and practitioners, education is ultimately aimed at giving learners the crucial literacy skills they need.
This Conference provides a platform for educators and language professionals to share their insights and practices as well as discuss current trends in the areas of literacy teaching, educational innovations and creative pedagogy.
The organizers invite submissions of papers that approach the conference theme from any of the two strands:
- Creative Pedagogies for Literacies
- Curriculum Design and Assessment of Literacies
For more information visit http://www.relc.org.sg/Conference2016/
1st National Conference on English Language Teaching, Literature, and Translation Studies
1st National Conference on English Language Teaching, Literature, and Translation Studies
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| Recent Call for Papers | |||||
| Call Deadline: 04-Feb-2016 | |||||
| Call for Papers: ELTLT 2016 invites research papers that cover a wide range of topics in English Language Teaching, Literature, and Translation which include but are not confined to the following topics: Some suggested sub-themes for papers include: - Language and Education - Issues on English Curriculum Development - English Language Teaching in EFL/ESL context - Using Technology in Teaching - Teaching grammar /Vocabulary - Applied Linguistics - Language Testing and Assessment - Recent Approaches to ELT - Teaching Language Skills - Language Acquisition and Learning - New Challenges in ELT - Teaching English to young learners - Syllabus Design and Materials Development - Language Teacher Education - Language, Power and Ideology - Discourse Analysis and ELT - Multimedia and Web-based CALL /CALT - English for Specific Purposes (ESP) - Recent and Future Orientations in ELT - Innovation in Language Teaching - The Collaboration of Socio-cultural Theory to Language Teaching - English Literature and Culture - Comparative Literature - Cultural Diversity in Literature - American Literature and Culture - Technology and Contemporary Culture in Literature - Post – Colonial Discourse in Literature - Ecological Approach in Literature - Literary Criticism - Contemporary Literature - Poetry and Prose - Medieval and Renaissance Literature - Literature and other Arts - Literature and History - World Languages and Literature - Postmodernism Literature - Medieval Literature - Literary Schools - Literature and Mythology - Issues and Challenges in Translation Studies - Translation and Interpretation Studies - Translation of Literary Works - Translation in Cyber World - New Approaches and Theories in Translation - Translation Quality Assessment - Translation Pedagogy - Foreign Language Teaching and Translation - Translation and Culture - Translation and Ideology - Translator’s Identity and Translation - Translation and Politics - Translator Education - Translation and Metadiscourse - Translation and Technology - Other Interdisciplinary Related Issues… |
Friday, January 22, 2016
Timeline for Great American Authors Since 1650
Timeline for Great American Authors Since 1650
1607 – Jamestown Colony established
1620 – Plymouth Plantation founded in Massachusetts
• 1650 – Anne Bradstreet’s book of poems The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, By a Gentlewoman of
Those Parts is published in London
• 1702 – Cotton Mather publishes Magnalia Christi Americana - The Great Achievement of Christ in America
• 1773 – Black poet Phillis Wheatley publishes her first book of poems
1776 – The Declaration of Independence is signed
• 1783 – Noah Webster releases his Blue-Backed Speller
• 1819 – Washington Irving publishes Rip Van Winkle
• 1826 – James Fenimore Cooper writes The Last of the Mohicans
• 1836 – Ralph Waldo Emerson publishes Nature, launching the American Transcendental movement
• 1845 – Edgar Allan Poe writes “The Raven”
• 1849 – Henry David Thoreau releases his essay Civil Disobedience
• 1850 – Nathaniel Hawthorne writes The Scarlet Letter
• 1851 – Herman Melville publishes Moby Dick
• 1852 – Emily Dickinson publishes her first poem
Harriet Beecher Stowe writes Uncle Tom’s Cabin, beginning the American tradition of social writing
• 1854 – Thoreau writes Walden
• 1855 – Frederick Douglass Publishes My Bondage and My Freedom
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Writes The Song of Hiawatha
Walt Whitman Publishes Leaves of Grass
1861 - 1864 – The American Civil War is fought
• 1868 – Louisa May Alcott writes Little Women
• 1870 – Mark Twain writes The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
• 1878 – Henry James writes Daisy Miller
• 1884 – Mark Twain publishes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• 1895 – Stephen Crane writes The Red Badge of Courage
• 1903 – Jack London writes Call of the Wild
• 1905 – America’s greatest short story writer, O Henry, writes his masterpiece, The Gift of the Magi
• 1906 – Upton Sinclair writes The Jungle and helps launch America’s tradition of investigative journalism
• 1913 – William Carlos Williams releases his first book of poems, The Tempers
1914 - 1918 – The First World War is fought
• 1914 – Carl Sandburg Publishes Chicago
• 1915 – Edgar Lee Masters releases Spoon River Anthology
• 1917 – T. S. Eliot writes The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
• 1919 – Sherwood Anderson writes Winesburg, Ohio
• 1920 – Edith Wharton is the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Age of Innocence
• 1922 – T.S. Eliot publishes The Wasteland
• 1923 – E. E. Cummings published his first book of poems, Tulips and Chimneys
1923 – Robert Frost Publishes “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”
• 1925 - 1940 – Era of the lost generation writers
• 1925 – Theodore Dreiser writes An American Tragedy
• 1925 – F. Scott Fitzgerald Writes The Great Gatsby
• 1926 – Ernest Hemingway writes The Sun Also Rises
• 1927 – Willa Cather writes Death Comes for The Archbishop
• 1929 – Faulkner writes The Sound and the Fury
Thomas Wolfe Writes Look Homeward Angel
• 1930 – Sinclair Lewis becomes the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature
• 1931 – Pearl Buck writes The Good Earth
• 1934 – Henry Miller writes Tropic of Capricorn
• 1936 – Playwright Eugene O’Neill wins the Nobel Prize for Literature
• 1938 – Pearl Buck wins the Nobel Prize for Literature
• 1939 – Henry Miller writes Tropic of Capricorn
• 1939 – John Steinbeck publishes The Grapes of Wrath
1939 - 1945 – The Second World War is fought
• 1940 – Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls is Published
• 1941 – James Thurber writes The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
• 1947 – Robert Heinlein launches the golden age of science fiction with his short story “The Green Hills of
Earth” published in The Saturday Evening Post
• 1948 – T.S. Eliot wins the Nobel Prize for Literature
Tennessee Williams Wins His First Pulitzer Prize for A Street Car Named Desire
• 1949 – William Faulkner becomes the fourth American to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature
Arthur Miller writes Death of a Salesman
1950 - 1953 – The Korean War is fought
• 1950 – Gwendolyn Brooks Becomes the First Black Recipient of the Pulitzer Prize
• 1951 – Isaac Asimov begins his Foundation trilogy with Foundation
J.D. Salinger writes Catcher in the Rye
• 1952 – Ernest Hemingway writes his masterpiece, The Old Man and the Sea
John Steinbeck writes East of Eden
Black author Ralph Ellison writes Invisible Man
• 1953 – Ray Bradbury writes Fahrenheit 451
Black author James Baldwin writes Go Tell It on the Mountain
• 1954 – Ernest Hemingway wins the Nobel Prize for Literature
• 1956 – Allan Ginsburg writes Howl
• 1957 – Dr Seuss Writes The Cat in the Hat
Jack Kerouac publishes On the Road
• 1958 – Lawrence Ferlinghetti writes A Coney Island of the Mind
• 1959 – William Burroughs writes The Naked Lunch
Playwright Lorraine Hansberry writes A Raisin in the Sun
• 1960 – John Updike begins his Rabbit Series with Rabbit Run
• 1961 – Joseph Heller writes Catch-22
• 1962 – John Steinbeck wins the Nobel Prize for Literature
• 1963 – Sylvia Plath writes The Bell Jar
• 1964 – Ken Kesey writes Sometimes a Great Notion
1965 - 1973 – The Vietnam War is fought
• 1966 – Truman Capote writes In Cold Blood
• 1968 – Tom Wolfe publishes The Electric Koolaid Acid Test
• 1969 – Kurt Vonnegut writes Slaughterhouse Five
Philip Roth writes Portnoy’s Complaint
• 1976 – Saul Bellow wins the Nobel Prize for Literature
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