LTLT 2023: DIVERSITY AND LEARNER AUTONOMY IN LANGUAGE LEARNING
Contact Information
Full name:
LTLT
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Event Information
Event title:
LTLT 2023: DIVERSITY AND LEARNER AUTONOMY IN LANGUAGE LEARNING
Category:
In-Person
Timezone:
(UTC+07:00) Bangkok, Hanoi, Jakarta, Barnaul, Gorno-Altaysk, Hovd, Krasnoyarsk, Novosibirsk, Tomsk
Start date:
28-04-2023
End date:
28-04-2023
Description:
Investment in foreign language learning has dramatically multiplied in the recent period of globalization. As a result, the workforce has been increasingly required to communicate effectively in English and at least one other language for successful business practice. Language learners, in turn, demand more specific training programs tailored to their learning needs. This calls for diversified training objectives, flexible delivery modes, and optimal teaching approaches from any language program portfolio. For example, the learners learning English to establish a one-time-only connection with their customers quickly are likely to have different expectations regarding the teaching method and course organization than those studying English to enhance their future career possibilities.
Similarly, those taking an English course at a young age would demonstrate a different level of commitment and expect different classroom interaction styles than those participating in an English class in their adolescence. These preference variations become compounded as learners of the same class may have different levels of learner autonomy, enabling them to control different aspects of their learning inconsistently in different social contexts. These diversifications are amplified by the affordable abundance of emerging technological tools and their impact on student's cognitive and behavioral learning processes. These complexities prompt language teacher practitioners, methodology lecturers, researchers, and other stakeholders to rethink and possibly reshape their teaching approaches to ensure more inclusive practices for learner autonomy development and learning achievement improvement.
Language Teaching and Learning Today (LTLT) is an international conference series initiated by Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (HCMUTE). It is missioned for TESOL capacity building and community empowerment by exploring crucial issues of language teaching and learning for the community's sustainable development in the 21st century. LTLT 2023 is organized face-to-face onsite at the main campus of HCMUTE in Ho Chi Minh city. The keynote presentations are live-streamed on the conference website. No presentation or demonstration is delivered online. LTLT 2023 expects to bring together a large group of students, teachers, textbook designers, teaching methodologists, edtech providers, policymakers, experts, researchers, and stakeholders in language education to address the challenges of learning diversification and learner autonomy in the current context.
LTLT 2023 is expected to effectively offer a forum for professionals from different teaching and learning contexts to understand developments in their expertise better. Critical discussions, empirical research, and innovative practices to consider learner diversification and learner autonomy from the conference would be able to facilitate our professional development progress and improve our services to the community. All proposal abstracts submitted to the conference are peer-reviewed. Accepted abstracts and their authors' biographies are published in the conference booklet. In addition, all full-text papers accepted by the conference and their authors' bios will be published in the conference proceedings with an ISBN.
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Location Information
Location name:
Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology and Education
Street:
1 Vo Van Ngan
City:
Thu Duc City
State/Province:
Ho Chi Minh City
Country:
Vietnam