MAALLT Spring 2002 Conference
Call for proposals

This year's theme, "The New Role of the Language Lab: Options for Everyone," implies that today's language laboratories fulfill a myriad of services that are "customized" to please the clients: faculty and students. Each lab is unique with its own innovations and characteristics. Gone are the days when labs resembled each other. How are we molding our facilities to fit our language instruction needs? How does technology allow us to customize, individualize, and promote innovative teaching techniques in our labs and our classrooms?

We invite proposals for presentations, papers, workshops, panel discussions. Please send proposals as an e-mail attachment in Microsoft Word or Rich Text Format to: Betty Rose Facer (bfacer@odu.edu, cc: donna_apgar@cpcc.cc.nc.us). Include full contact information and proposed length of presentation .

Proposals might include:

• ways we are customizing our language classes, language labs and services
• specific pedagogical applications of Web and digital technologies (testing, student self-assessments, in-class use, etc.)
• demonstrations of instructional technology projects or tools
• the development & management of Web/digital instructional projects
• the language teacher's digital tool kit
• staffing and professional development needs and projects
• support implications
• student projects and class portfolios
• extending learning beyond the classroom
• collaborative opportunities and projects using new technologies
• innovative software in the foreign language classroom and in the Language Lab
• facility planning.

We welcome proposals that would be of interest to a diverse audience of foreign language and ESL educators (K-16) and language technology professionals at all levels.

Extended deadline to submit proposals: March 1, 2002.

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