Submission

The conference welcomes

  • papers on theoretical issues of language learning, teaching and acquisition, applied to second language or heritage language, with a broad disciplinary scope (education, linguistics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, anthropology, sociology, history),

  • applied papers on innovative approaches of teaching Armenian or languages of comparable profile (course design, progress standards and assessment, school design and administration, assessment of stakeholders’ interest, targeted intervention, etc.)

Selection method and criteria

Anonymous abstracts will be evaluated by blind peer review, with attention to :

  • the relevance to conference's goal

  • the clarity of the argument

  • the level of interest of practical issues raised in the proposal, and the value of the data provided in support to the argument

      • Abstract should not exceed 1 page, an additional page can be accepted for references and data (corpus, examples).

    • Submission is now closed

    • In order to allow the anonymous selection of proposals, abstracts will be accepted only through EasyChair

    • Abstract are accepted in Armenian, English or French. Homever, in order to facilitate the evaluation of abstracts by experts out the field of Armenian studies, we encourage to provide an English or French translation of the abstract. Please note that this applies only to submission process. Presentations will be accepted in any of the three languages.

Calendar

Pre-call for papers : February 19, 2015

Website release and call for papers : March 16, 2015

Submissions deadline: April 28, 2015

Notification of acceptance: May 30, 2015

Program release: June 15, 2015 Delayed : July 10

Financial support

A limited number of grants will be available from tje Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation to support travel/accomodation expanses of participants who are not able to be financed by their institution.