{"id":20673,"date":"2018-02-07T10:39:57","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T09:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/?p=20673"},"modified":"2018-02-07T10:39:57","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T09:39:57","slug":"plin-day-2018-technological-innovation-in-language-learning-and-teaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/en\/plin-day-2018-technological-innovation-in-language-learning-and-teaching\/","title":{"rendered":"PLIN Day 2018: Technological innovation in language learning and teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: black;\">The PLIN Day is an annual one-day thematic conference hosted by the Linguistics Research Unit of the Universit\u00e9 catholique de Louvain (Belgium). The conference has established itself over the years as an international forum for the exchange of ideas among scholars and has brought together researchers from all over the world. The 2018 PLIN Day\u00a0will take place on\u00a0<b>Friday, May 18th<\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0is devoted to\u00a0<\/span><a tabindex=\"-1\" href=\"https:\/\/uclouvain.be\/fr\/instituts-recherche\/ilc\/plin\/plin-linguistic-day-2018.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cTechnological innovation in language learning and teaching\u201d<\/a><span style=\"color: black;\">; it offers academics, professionals, undergraduate and postgraduate students an excellent opportunity to access, share and discuss cutting edge research in the field. The following (non-exhaustive) list of themes will be covered this year:<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: black;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: black;\">&#8211; Applying new insights from natural language processing to enhance digital scaffolding in language learning<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: black;\">&#8211; Using virtual reality and serious games to leverage task-based language learning and other complex learning environments<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: black;\">&#8211; Identifying the conditions under which mobile out-of-class language learning can produce the expected added value<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: black;\">&#8211; Exploring the potential of corpus linguistics for developing and implementing tools for language learning<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: black;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: black;\">The core programme of the conference will consist in keynote sessions but participants will also have the opportunity to present their most recent research and\/or work in progress during an interactive poster session. We therefore invite researchers to\u00a0<\/span><a tabindex=\"-1\" href=\"https:\/\/uclouvain.be\/fr\/instituts-recherche\/ilc\/plin\/call-for-posters-0.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">submit abstracts<\/a><span style=\"color: black;\">\u00a0addressing topics on new trends in technology supported language learning. The posters will be presented in English. Further information on the posters will be provided in due time. The presence of the author is required as short oral presentations of the posters will also be organised in a poster boost session. A prize will be awarded to the best poster presentation. Abstract submissions should be sent by 5 March 2018 to the following address:\u00a0<\/span><a tabindex=\"-1\" href=\"mailto:plindayucl@uclouvain.be\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">plindayucl@uclouvain.be<\/a><span style=\"color: black;\">.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: black;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: black;\"><b>Important Dates:<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: black;\">15 February, 2018: Registration opens<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: black;\">5 March, 2018: Deadline for abstract submissions<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: black;\">15 March, 2018: Notification of acceptance for a poster presentation<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: black;\">30 April, 2018: Early bird registration closes<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: black;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: black;\"><b>Keynote Speakers:<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: black;\">Penelope Collins, University of California at Irvine<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: black;\">Dana Glabasova, Lancaster University<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: black;\">Agnes Kukulska-Hulme, The Open University<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: black;\">G\u00e9rald Schlemminger, University of Education Karlsruhe<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: black;\">Steve Thorne, University of Portland<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The PLIN Day is an annual one-day thematic conference hosted by the Linguistics Research Unit of the Universit\u00e9 catholique de Louvain (Belgium). The conference has &hellip; <a title=\"PLIN Day 2018: Technological innovation in language learning and teaching\" class=\"bnm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/en\/plin-day-2018-technological-innovation-in-language-learning-and-teaching\/\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PLIN Day 2018: Technological innovation in language learning and teaching<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1013],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linguistics-belgium","bnm-entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20683,"href":"https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20673\/revisions\/20683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.uclouvain.be\/bkl-cbl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}