Nakasendo Conference 2010 Sunday June 20th 2010
Teachers as Learners, Learners as Teachers
Call for Papers for Learner Development (LD) SIG & Framework and Language Portfolio (FLP) SIG members
Deadline for proposals:
Sunday March 28thConference theme This year’s Nakasendo Conference sees the FLP SIG and LD SIG collaborating on the theme of self-assessment under the umbrella conference theme of ‘Teachers as Learners, Learners as Teachers’.
SIG focus Learner Development aims to focus on self-assessment issues in the classroom (and/or in self-access, virtual learning and other types of extra-mural learning), while Framework and Language Portfolio intends to look at learner training for self-assessment.
Areas of concern might include any of the following:
- appropriate self-assessment tools and genres (discussion, questionnaires, learning, logs and diaries, journal writing, portfolios, among others)
- benefits, drawbacks and threats that self-assessment offers
- dealing with disparities in self-assessment
- L1/L2 use in self-assessment
- learner positions towards self-assessment
- near-peer models in self-assessment
- peer roles in self-assessment
- problems and challenges in moving from test-based evaluation to self-assessment
- questions of reliability and trustworthiness in self-assessment
- self-assessment and autonomous learning
- self-assessment and language advising
- self-assessment and learner and teacher identities
- self-assessment in and/or across different skills areas
- self-assessment of skills, knowledge development, and/or language development
- self-regulation and self-assessment
- stages in the development of self-assessment
- teacher roles in learner self-assessment
- the development of context-sensitive descriptors for self-assessment
- the personalization of self-assessment
- the selection and negotiation of areas of focus for self-assessment
- the use of technology in self-assessment, and so on…
For more details and to download the complete Call for Papers for LD SIG and FLP SIG members, click on the links for Microsoft Word format or in PDF format.