MIDDLEBURY
COLLEGE, VT, USA EF MESI, YEREVAN ARMENIA
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MARCH 2-4, 2011
IV International
Virtual Conference
on Russian Language, Literature
and Culture
EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES IN
VIRTUAL LINGUISTIC-COMMUNICATIVE
SPACE
Dear Colleagues!
The International
Coordinating Committee (Armenia, Italy, Russian, Slovakia, USA) is continuing
work on its project Creation of a
Virtual Educational Space for the World Community. We invite scholars,
educators, instructors and graduate students to participate in the work of the IV International Virtual Conference on Educational Technologies in a Virtual
Linguistic-Communicative Space.
The Aim of the Conference is to unite Russian specialists and literary scholars
from different countries, to shine light upon relevant issues in Russian
studies, literature, language learning pedagogy in the humanities, to increase
the effectiveness of international cooperation, and the culture of electronic
communication by creating a Network, a new way of sharing experiences, a new
innovative educational medium. The
Conference will be conducted utilizing Adobe Connect Pro Meeting and Skype.
Main Scholarly Themes of the Conference:
A. Linguistic and Educational Space: Formation, Support, Development. Innovative
Technologies in Education
B. Culture,
Literature, Language
C.
CALI, Electronic Pedagogy and
Ethical Issues
D.
Issues of Intercultural Communication
E.
Issues in Linguistics and Methodology
of Teaching Russian as a Second Language in Light of Intercultural
Communication
F.
Theory and Practice of
Teaching Russian and Other Languages as a Second Language
G.
The Theory and Practice of
Using IT in Russian and other SL and Literature classes.
Working languages of
the Conference and for Papers are Russian and English.
Participants in the Conference will receive
Certificates of Participation.
The best papers will be published in a
scholarly collection In the World of International CALI
The collection will contain articles on contemporary issues in Russian
studies, literature, culture, electronic pedagogy, suggestions for innovative
teaching methodologies and the use of information and educational technologies
in the study of foreign languages and literatures.
Requirements
for formatting papers.
Length
of the text 4-5 pages
- Text should be formatted
using Microsoft Office Word 2003
- Font Times New Roman
- Title of the article 14 point bold faced
- Main text 12 points, single spaced
- Center alignment
- Page size
А4, Orientation Portrait
- Margins: top 2 cm,
bottom 2.5 cm, sides 2 см
- Paragraph indent 5 spaces (0.8 cm)
- No page numbering
- Tables: width 10.8 cm, 10
point font, no indentations.
All pages references should be included in the text in
brackets after the quotation (first the number of the source followed by a
comma, then the page number), for example: [1, 98]. Sources should be provided
at the end under the heading Bibliography numbered and in alphabetical order (10 point).
Please provide your academic degree, title, current
position, university or college, city, and country.
Deadline for Applications and
Papers: February 10, 2011.
Application and
paper should be sent as a separate file via e-mail to both:
tom.beyer@middlebury.edu
s.minasyanpmesi@gmail.com
Registration: $70 USD
(includes conference costs, copy of the publication, and shipping)
Contact numbers:
Prof. Thomas Beyer, Russian Department, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont 05753 USA
Tel: 001-802-388-7832;
e-mail: tom.beyer@middlebury.edu
Prof. Svetlana Minasyan, Russian Department,
MESI Yerevan Branch, Yerevan 0099, Republic of Armenia, tel/fax:
+(374 10)393094; mobile: +(374 91)47 70 50; e-mail: s.minasyanpmesi@gmail.com
Conference
materials will be available on the website http://mesi.cliro.unibo.it
Members of the International
Coordinating Committee:
- Svetlana Minasyan, Russian Department, MESI Yerevan Branch, Armenia
- Simona Berardi, Language
Center CLIRO, University of Bologna, Italy
- Thomas Beyer, Russian Department, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont,
USA
- Tamara Kuprina, Department of Foreign Languages in
the Sphere of Economics and Management, Ural State Technical University,
Yekaterinburg, Russia.
Application Form
Family name
First name
Patronymic
Institution
Position
Academic degree
Title
Title of paper
Mailing address for the published
papers
Telephone (work):
Telephone (home):
Mobile phone:
Е-mail