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Submit your Proposal here

If you wish to submit a presentation for the NZALT conference, please use this template (please add your name to the document title) and complete the online form with the requested information as outlined below.

Deadline for submission of abstracts for all presentations is Friday 22 April 2022.

All of those who have submitted a presentation proposal will be notified of its acceptance or non-acceptance by Friday 29 April 2022.

PLEASE NOTE: If your proposal is accepted, you (along with any co-presenters) will need to register for the conference. Please take advantage of early bird registrations (note these close on 6 April 2022).

Presentation Types

Note: Papers, classroom activities or workshop presentations must be in English. World Café topics may be in another language. If you would like to host a World Café topic, please indicate the language in which you will present.

Paper Presentation: 30 minutes, which must include at least five minutes for questions/discussion/reflection

These are academic or research-informed papers reporting on scholarly work or work arising from systematic inquiry.  Authors present summaries or overviews of their complete paper, describing the essential features (purpose, procedures, and outcome, product, or results) of their work.

Classroom Activities: 30 minutes, which includes 15-20 minutes for developing your own resources

This new format is intended to give presenters an opportunity to share an activity that works well in their classroom. Presenters outline their activity in 10-15 minutes and participants will then have 15-20 minutes time to start adapting the activity to their language classroom. 

Workshop/Interactive presentation:  60 minutes, which must include at least 15 minutes for questions/reflection/hands-on component

A workshop, panel session or debate. This session, which presents classroom-based work, involves substantial interaction with the audience.  It must not simply be a long paper.

World Café topic: 60 minutes

Proposals are invited for the hosting of a World Café (or a variation of the World Café format). 

For a World Café session, a room is set up like a café, with participants sitting in groups of four or five at different tables, for deeply participative, high-quality professional conversations.  Participants are guided by table hosts to move to new tables as part of a series of conversational rounds focusing on questions that matter to them.  With each move, a table host remains behind, sharing the essence of his/her table’s conversation. The others separate and move to new tables to consider a new question and connect to what other tables have talked about – allowing networking and cross-pollinating the conversations. As part of the proposal, please indicate a possible theme or themes and details of the format (including specific timings) of your suggested World Café event.

Submissions must include:

• Presentation type: see above

• Proposal abstract (maximum of 100 words): Description of the paper, activity, workshop or World Café proposal. Write a one paragraph text describing your proposed paper, workshop, or World Café. If the presentation is intended for a specific audience (e.g. teachers of a particular language or at a particular level), please indicate this. The summary will appear in the Conference Handbook, if your proposal is successful. 

• Keywords: Please list three words or very short phrases to identify the key focus of your presentation. 

• Practitioner Notes: The implications for practice and/or policy of your presentation, stated in a maximum of three bullet points, each containing no more than 15 words  

• Presentation Language: Only applicable if submitting a proposal for a World Café topic.

• Target Audience: Who will benefit?

• Author Details:

• Name or names of authors/presenters

• Email address for correspondence

• Affiliation and, if appropriate, position in organisation: e.g. classroom teacher/head of department/ tutor/lecturer

• Participation Status: Participant or non-participant (include co-authors who need to be credited, but who are otherwise not participating in the presentation)

• Biography:  A brief biographical note (for each author/presenter). Describe your work, background and research/pedagogical interests.  Maximum of 100 words. Continuous text, within a single paragraph.

NOTES: We cannot provide photocopying facilities at the conference but there will be data projectors or Apple TVs in every room.

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