International Conference

Conference Report

2010-01-09T23:02:00.000-08:00

CVM’s H. M. Patel Institute of English Training & Research, in association with ELT@I, has organized 1ST International Conference on Interactive Media in Pedagogy: Learning English In and Beyond Classrooms from 08-10 January, 2010. The inaugural function was held at BVM auditorium on 08th Jan. 2010. The function started with a prayer by Nishant Joshi & group. Dr. R. P. Jadeja, Director of the Institute extended a warm welcome to the intellectual gathering, followed by a floral welcome to the dignitaries on the dais. On this occasion a book on Business Communication written by Dr. O. P. Juneja and co-authored by Dr. Aarti Majumdar, was released by the esteemed guests on the dais.
Dr. Maya Pandit, Pro- Vice Chancellor, English & Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad delivered a Key-Note address on ‘Why Technology?’ She focused on the collaboration among society, education and technology. She also highlighted that education must provide entertainment with reference to media and other easily available resources for which she used the term ‘Edu-entertainment’. She was of the opinion that now the thirst for knowledge has shifted from passing competitive exams to know the self, the world and to help the globe. She expressed technology as an essential tool for teaching and learning English which enhances teacher and learner’s ability to learn for various purposes. Mrs. Jayanti Ravi Menon, Commissioner Higher Education, Gujarat shared her noteworthy experiences in the field of education. She focused on paradigm shift from ‘passive teaching’ to ‘active learning’. She also explored the key role of ICTE and English Language Skills with reference to the reduction of unemployment and Knowledge Management. She emphasized on ‘Choice or freedom based education system’ to be developed in 21st century in India where a learner can get his/her graduation in Physics and Economics together which is not available at present. Charutar Ratna Dr. C. L. Patel, Chairman CVM and President of the function shared his valuable presidential remarks on the theme of the conference and showed his happiness referring the academic growth of Gujarat in the field of teaching English. He showered his wondrous blessings upon all and congratulated the host team. Finally, Dr. K. M. Prabhu, Vice-President, English Language Teachers’ Association of India, proposed a vote of thanks on behalf of both H. M. Patel Institute and ELT@I. Dr. Praphu opined that the Institute with the support of Government of Gujarat has made the state a unique state in the area of English Language Teaching-learning in India. Within a few years it will overtake even Tamilnadu and Andhra which are the leading states in this area today.
The function ended with the National Anthem. There are 300 participants from the various states of India and abroad in the conference in which more than 120 participants will present their paper, out of which 10-12 participants have come from the countries like UK, Iran, Iraq, Ukraine, Singapore etc. The conference will surely lead towards knowledge exchanging and so towards fruitful learning.

Stay at the Conference

2010-01-04T10:13:00.001-08:00

Dear Friends!

Your accommodation is finalized at the following venues:

Vadtal ( nine kilometers away from the Institute)
NDDB Campus

In both the cases, you are advised to come to the Institute first and then the volunteers from the Institute will guide you for the respective places.

The list of your accommodation details will be uploaded very soon.

Schedule for 10/01/10

2009-12-29T06:26:00.000-08:00

Dear friends

Here is the final instalment of paper presentations that are going to take place on the last day of the conference, i.e. 10/01/10. However, if your name still does not figure in the list, then please do contact us immediately.

	Presenter	Chairperson	Announcer	Room No.	Date
Please note that presentations are scheduled between 10:15 – 11:50 at H M Patel Institute
1.	Seema Singh		Sathyajit G D	209	10/01/10
2.	Ajay Patel			209	“
3.	Krushna Mishra			209	“
4.	Tarun Patel & Rajesh Bharvad			209	“
5	Venu Mehta			209	“
6.	Yashwant Sharma			209	“

7.	Sarah Holt	Dr K M Prabhu	Dharmanshu Vaidya	207	“
8	Govind Prasad Goyal & Smita Gupta			207	“
9	Pawan Dwivedi			207	“
10.	Harbhadrasinh Sarvaiya			207	“
11.	Neda Fatehi			207	“
12.	K. Madhavi Reddy			207	“
13.	Falguni Desai	Prof M B Gaijan	Hina Dobaria	208	“
14.	Satish Lakde & Sathe			208	“
15.	Vaishali Punjani			208	“
16.	Mrunal Chavda			208	“
17.	Urmi Satyan			208	“
18.	Surabhi Pillai			208	“
19.	Manish Pandya & Divyanshi Pandya	Dr N V Bose	Jignesh Rupapara	210	“
20.	Bhaskar Pandya & Kaushal Kotadiya			210	“
21.	Sumeet Ramchandani (not presenting)			210	“
22.	Audrey E Barlow			210	“
23.	Jagdish Joshi			210	“
24.	B S Nimavat			210	“
25.	Dilip Bhatt	Dr Dilip Barad	Bidyarani Guruvayum	108	“
26.	Vaibhav Sabnis			108	“
27.	Kajal Rao			108	“
28.	Kavita Tyagi			108	“
29.	Kiran Shukla			108
30.	Jaysukh Hirpara			108
31.	Vasishth + Arindam			109
32.	Sunil Shah + Surendrasinh Gohil			109
33.	Girish Prasad Rath			109
34.	J L Shalin			109
35	Arti Yadav + Avinash Moharil			109

Paper Presentation Schedule: 9th January 2010

2009-12-26T03:17:00.000-08:00

SR	Presenter	Chairperson	Announcer	Room. No.	Date
Please note that presentations are scheduled between 14:00 – 15:45 at H M Patel Institute
01	Subhamitra Adhikari	Dr Aarti Mujumdar	Dharmanshu Vaidya	207	09/01/2010
02	Jaishree Iyengar + K. Raju			207	”
03	Swati Khare			207	”
07	J. Jalkute + V. Wagmare			207	”
08	Manoj Gadekar			207	”
09	Ganesh Chavan			207	”

20	Manish Vyas	Dr Jinendra B Jain	Gaurav Gohil	109	”
04	Bhavdip Chavda			109	”
05	Kiran S N			109	”
06	Chetan Trivedi			109	”
22	Vikas Raval			109	”
23	Anju Agraval			109	”

10	S S Thakur	Dr V U Pawar	Hina Dobaria	208	”
11	Leena Shajy			208	”
12	Tejas Beldar + Sachin Labade			208	”
13	Kirit Rughani + Dina Ranigna			208	”
14	Hem Raj Kafle			208	”
16	Amita Patel			208	”

15	Khagengra Acharya + Tirtha Ghimire	Dr S Senthilnathan	Satyajith G D	209	”
17	Vaishali Shivkumar			209	”
18	Dilip Barad			209	”
19	R Janaky			209	”
21	Sarbjeet Cheema			209	”
24	Arti Kumar			209	”
25	Tejal Chauhan	Dr R Gandhi Subramanian	Jignesh Rupapara	210	”
26	Chandrakant Tanna + Vohra			210	”
27	Anila Nair			210	”
28	Rajeshwari Singh			210	”
29	N V Bose			210	”
30	Shezad Bodila			210	”

31	Bharat Bhushan	Dr Mohammad Shaukat Ansari	Bidyarani Guruvayum	108	”
32	Milan Pandya			108	”
33	Nehaben Thakkar			108	”
34	Abhipsa Yagnik + Anil Varsat			108	”
35	Anshu Surve			108	”
36	Nikhil Joshi			108	”

37	Agnel Parmar	Dr Jaylaxmi Jadeja	Faisal Sheikh	110	“
38	Charul Jain			110
39	Firoz Shaikh			110
40	Nisrin Pathan			110
41	Swati Bhatt			110
42	Sumathi Shivkumar			110

Paper Presentation Schedule: 8th January 2010

2009-12-26T03:12:00.001-08:00

	Presenters	Chairperson	Announcer	Room No.	Date
Please note that presentations are scheduled between 14:00 – 15:45 at H M Patel Institute
1.	Asif Iqbal	Dr Piyush Joshi	Shabnam Lohani	107	08/01/2010
2.	Harsha Joshi			107	”
3.	Malay Joshi + Jignesh Gohil + Madhvi Mehta			107	”
4	Saurabh Singanapalli			107	”
5	Sagar Ajmeri			107	”
6	Zarna Maheshwary + Dipika Prajapati			107	”
7	Jinendra B Jain	Dr O P Juneja	Bidyarani Guruvayum	108	”
8	Aarti Mujumdar			108	”
9	Ashok Surapur and Hulibandi			108	”
10	V Radhika			108	”
11	Sudhirkumar Panda			108	”
12	Bhavna Gajera			108	”
13	Nayan Tank & Bipin Parmar	Dr S S Thakur	Gaurav Gohil	109	”
14	C I Rajesh & Indra Mercy			109	”
15	Dilber Mehta			109	”
16	GVS Ananta Lakshmi & S. Sailaja			109	”
17	Gandhi Subhramaniam			109	”
18	Imran Surti			109	”
19	Jaylakshmi Jadeja	Dr Vaibhav Sabnis	Faisal Sheikh	110	”
20	M .B. Gaijan			110	”
21	Satheeshkumar and K. Kavitha			110	”
22	Kinnari Vachhrajani			110	”
23	Kiran P Gajera			110	”
24	Kirti Rathod			110	”
25	Krishnamoorthy R	Dr Krushna Mishra	Dharmanshu Vaidya	207	”
26	Rachit Kalaria + Mital Jethava			207	”
27	Prof B Kranthi Kumari			207	”
28	Richard Robert + C. Tharini			207	”
29	V U Pawar			207	”
30	Kusum Yadav			207	”
31	Manju Nemad	Dr Charul Jain	Satyajith G D	209	”
32	Manoj Chhaya			209	”
33	Mohammad Shaukat Ansari + Wife			209	”
34	Rajesh Ladva			209	”
35	Ratna Rao			209	”
36	Razia M			209	”
37	Selvaraj + Senthilnathan	Dr B S Nimavat	Jignesh Rupapara	210	”
38	Sucharan Reddy			210	”
39	Trupti Bhatt			210	”
40	Urvashi Kaushal			210	”
41	Vikram Patel			210	”
42	Suruchi Dubey			210	”
43	Anna Sacha	Dr Firoz A Shaikh	Hina Dobaria	208	”
44	Nusrat Kadri + Varmala Bhambari			208	”
45	Sophiya Jaychandran			208	”
46	Kalpana Ranganathan			208	”
47	Prasanna Miapuram + Vasanthi R			208	”
48	Dr. Richa Tewari + Anjana Trivedi			208	”

Final Schedule of conference

2009-12-26T03:05:00.000-08:00

Dear all
Here is the final schedule of the conference to be held at H M Patel Institute on 8-10 January 2010. We will also post the paper presentation schedule very soon.

Regards

Conference Committee

Rough Schedule of Conference

Day I: January 08, 2010

Time	Event	Title	Venue
9:00a.m. – 9:55a.m.	Registration + Breakfast/Tea/ Coffee		H M Patel Institute of English Training and Research
10:00 a.m. – 10:50 a.m.	Inaugural (20 minutes) + Keynote address (25 minutes): Dr Maya Pandit, Pro-VC, EFL-U		B V M Auditorium
11:00a.m. – 11:50 a.m.	Plenary I: Anil Laxman Pathak, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore	Communication and Collaboration in E-learning: Directions for Curriculum Development	B V M Auditorium
12:00 – 12:50	4 parallel workshops (45 minutes each) 1. Dilip Barad	Synergism of Moodle and WikiEducator for Teaching English Language and Literature	Language Lab, H M Patel Institute of English Training and Research
	2. Mahendra Chotaliya	SYNELTY: Teachably Yours	Room No 108, H M Patel Institute of English Training and Research
	3. Manisha Dak	Exploring Language through the medium of films	Room No 209, H M Patel Institute of English Training and Research
	4. J K Singh	Learning Anytime Anywhere: Mobile Assisted Language Learning (MALL) using MLE –Moodle	Computer Lab, BJVM College
13:00 – 13:50	Lunch		Lawns, H M Patel Institute of English Training and Research
14:00 – 15: 45	Parallel Paper Presentations (8 rooms x 6 presenters = 48)		H M Patel Institute of English Training and Research
15:45 – 16:00	Tea Break
16:30 – 18:00	Sitar Recital by Padmavibhushan Pandit Debu Chaudhury		BVM Auditorium
19:30 – 21:00	Dinner		H M Patel Institute of English Training and Research

Day 2: January 09, 2010

7:30 - 8:30	Breakfast	Title	Venue
9:00 – 9:50	Plenary II: Mark Parkinson, Director, The Shri Ram Schools, Gurgaon, India		BVM Auditorium
10:00 a.m. – 10:50 a.m.	Panel Discussion	Paradigms of Using Technology: Issues and Problems Panelists: K M Prabhu, EFL-U, Hyderabad Khagendra Acharya, Kathmandu University, Nepal Dr Azamat Akbarov, International Burch University, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina	BVM Auditorium
11:00a.m. – 11:50 a.m.	Publishers’ Presentation	Orell Edutech	BVM Auditorium
12:15 – 13:05	4 Parallel workshops 1. Meera Marathe	Using authentic materials in the classroom	Room No 209, H M Patel Institute of English Training and Research
	2. K Padmaja and Suvarna Lakshmi	Developing Critical Thinking Skills in Mixed Ability Classroom
	3. Kiran Chauhan	Using Corpora for language enhancement	Room No 210, H M Patel Institute of English Training and Research
	4. Sanjukta Sivakumar and Sumathi Sudhakar	Technology in the Writing Class	Language Lab, H M Patel Institute of English Training and Research
13:10 – 13:50	Lunch		Lawns, H M Patel Institute of English Training and Research
14:00 – 15:45	Parallel Paper Presentations (7 rooms x 6 presenters = 42)		H M Patel Institute of English Training and Research
15:45 – 16:00	Tea Break		Lawns, H M Patel Institute of English Training and Research
16:00 – 16:25	Trip to Sardar Memorial
16:45 – 17:35	Plenary III: Hilary Nesi, Coventry University, UK	Using corpus resources in English language teaching	Sardar Memorial, Karamsad
18:00 – 19:30	Cultural Programme		Sardar Memorial, Karamsad
19:35 – 21:00	Dinner		Sardar Memorial, Karamsad

Day 3: January 10, 2010

7:30 - 8:30	Breakfast	Title	Venue
9:00 – 9:50	Plenary IV: James Simpson, University of Leeds, UK	English online: language and language learning in the new communicative world	BVM Auditorium
10:15 a.m. – 11:50 a.m.	Parallel Paper Presentations (7 rooms X 6 presenters = 42)		H M Patel Institute of English Training and Research
12:00 – 12:50	4 Parallel workshops 1. Catherine Biddle	Using Interactive Media to Promote Spoken English	Room No 210, H M Patel Institute of English Training and Research
	2. Eva Rydberg Fahraeus and Sven Rydberg	Enacting Competent Dialogues – face to face and online	Room No 209, H M Patel Institute of English Training and Research
	3. Selina Benday	Using text features of mobile phones for ELT	Room No 108, H M Patel Institute of English Training and Research
	4. Mohini Bachani	Critical Thinking & Interactive Media	Room No 207, H M Patel Institute of English Training and Research
13:00 – 13:50	Lunch		Lawns, H M Patel Institute of English Training and Research
14:00 – 15:30	Valedictory Address: Dr. Sudhakar Marathe		BVM Auditorium
15:35 – 16:00	Photo Session/ Tea / End of Conference

Schedule of Plenaries and Workshops

2009-12-07T02:05:00.000-08:00

Dear all

Here is the schedule of plenary sessions and workshops. We would soon be posting the paper presentation schedule on this blog. You would also receive details of accommodation very soon.

Kind regards

Atanu

Rough Schedule of Conference

Day I: January 08, 2010

Time	Event	Title
9:00a.m. – 9:55a.m.	Registration + Breakfast/Tea/ Coffee
10:00 a.m. – 10:50 a.m.	Inaugural (20 minutes) + Keynote address (25 minutes): Dr Maya Pandit, Pro-VC, EFL-U
11:00a.m. – 11:50 a.m.	Plenary I: Anil Laxman Pathak, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
12:00 – 12:50	4 parallel workshops (45 minutes each) 1. Dilip Barad	Synergism of Moodle and WikiEducator for Teaching English Language and Literature
	2. Mahendra Chotaliya	SYNELTY: Teachably Yours
	3. Manisha Dak	Exploring Language through the medium of films
	4. J K Singh	Learning Anytime Anywhere: Mobile Assisted Language Learning (MALL) using MLE –Moodle
13:00 – 13:50	Lunch
14:00 – 15:30	Parallel Paper Presentations (10 rooms x 6 presenters = 60)
15:35 – 15:50	Tea Break
16:00 – 17:00	Cultural Programme (Garba, Patriotic Song, Dayero and Skit)
19:30 – 21:00	Dinner: University Guest House

Day 2: January 09, 2010

7:30 - 8:30	Breakfast
9:00 – 9:50	Plenary II: Mark Parkinson, Director, Sri Ram International School, Gurgaon, India
10:00 a.m. – 10:50 a.m.	Panel Discussion
11:00a.m. – 11:50 a.m.	Publishers’ Presentation
12:00 – 12:50	4 Parallel workshops 1. Meera Marathe	Using authentic materials in the classroom
	2. K Padmaja and Suvarna Lakshmi	Developing Critical Thinking Skills in Mixed Ability Classroom
	3. Kiran Chauhan	Using Corpora for language enhancement
	4. Sanjukta Sivakumar and Sumathi Sudhakar	Technology in the Writing Class
13:00 – 13:50	Lunch
14:00 – 14:50	Plenary III: Hilary Nesi, Coventry University, UK
15:00 – 16:00	Parallel Paper Presentations (10 rooms x 4 presenters = 40)
16:00 – 16:25	Tea Break
16:30 – 18:00	Trip (optional) Amul Dairy/ Sardar Memorial
19:30 – 21:00	Dinner

Day 3: January 10, 2010

7:30 - 8:30	Breakfast
9:00 – 9:50	Plenary IV: James Simpson, University of Leeds, UK
10:00 a.m. – 10:50 a.m.	Panel Discussion
11:00a.m. – 11:50 a.m.	Parallel Paper Presentations (10 rooms X 3 presenters = 30)
12:00 – 12:50	4 Parallel workshops 1. Catherine Biddle	Using Interactive Media to Promote Spoken English
	2. Eva Fahraeus	Enacting Competent Dialogues – face to face and online
	3. Selina Benday
	4. Mohini Bachani
13:00 – 13:50	Lunch
14:00 – 15:30	Valedictory Address: Dr. Sudhakar Marathe
15:35 – 16:00	Photo Session/ Tea / End of Conference

Closing of Registration for Papers

2009-11-16T23:22:00.000-08:00

Dear all

We must confess that we have been overwhelmed by your response. It has been virtually pouring papers for the last week or so. Thank you so much for your interest in the conference!

Unfortunately, like all good things this too must come to an end. The last date for paper registration was yesterday, that is 16th of November, and we would not be accepting any more paper/ workshop proposals. However, the last date for conference registration is 30th of November and you can still make it as a participant.

Looking forward to meeting all of you.

Dates Extended for Abstract Submission

2009-10-25T03:48:00.000-07:00

Dear all

Some good news during the festive season!

We have already received a substantial number of abstracts for the conference. In fact, we are overwhelmed by your response. However, we would like to have more since we have realised that we can accommodate a few more. The abstract submission date thus, has been extended to 16th of November, 2009. You are welcome to send in your abstract by that date.

Looking forward to your responses!

Best wishes

Conference Committee

Conference Schedule (Tentative)

2009-09-29T03:47:00.000-07:00

Dear all

Here is the tentative schedule for the conference. But as all of you know, there might be changes here and there depending on last-minute adjustments. We are still in the process of finalising the guest speakers and we would keep you updated on that.

Regards

Atanu

Schedule of Conference

Day I: January 08, 2010


9:00a.m. – 9:55a.m.	Registration + Breakfast/Tea/ Coffee
10:00 a.m. – 10:50 a.m.	Inaugural (20 minutes) + Keynote address (25 minutes)
11:00a.m. – 11:50 a.m.	Plenary I
12:00 – 12:50	4 parallel workshops (45 minutes each)
13:00 – 13:50	Lunch
14:00 – 15:30	Parallel Paper Presentations (10 rooms x 6 presenters = 60)
15:35 – 15:50	Tea Break
16:00 – 17:00	Cultural Programme (Garba, Patriotic Song, Dayero and Skit)
19:30 – 21:00	Dinner

Day 2: January 09, 2010

7:30 - 8:30	Breakfast
9:00 – 9:50	Plenary II
10:00 a.m. – 10:50 a.m.	Featured Speakers
11:00a.m. – 11:50 a.m.	Publishers’ Presentation
12:00 – 12:50	4 Parallel workshops
13:00 – 13:50	Lunch
14:00 – 15:30	Parallel Paper Presentations (10 rooms x 6 presenters = 60)
15:35 – 15:50	Tea Break
16:00 – 18:00	Trip (optional) Amul Dairy/ Sardar Memorial
19:30 – 21:00	Dinner

Day 3: January 10, 2010

7:30 - 8:30	Breakfast
9:00 – 9:50	Plenary III
10:00 a.m. – 10:50 a.m.	Panel Discussion
11:00a.m. – 11:50 a.m.	Parallel Paper Presentations (10 rooms X 3 presenters = 30)
12:00 – 12:50	4 Parallel workshops
13:00 – 13:50	Lunch
14:00 – 15:30	Valedictory Address
15:35 – 16:00	Photo Session/ Tea and End of Conference

Accommodation at the Conference

2009-09-18T08:37:00.000-07:00

Dear Colleagues
I am sure that all of you are gearing up for the conference. We already have a substantial number of abstracts and workshop proposals but we, of course, would like to have more.
Meanwhile,there have been quite a few queries on accommodation at the conference site. We would suggest that you book your accommodation in advance. This could be done by sending your accommodation fees along with your conference fees. You could make a single draft/ cheque for both of them.
Also for the first set of abstracts that we have received, we would be sending a confirmation e-mail by the 18th of October. However, the last day for submission of abstract is October 30, 2009. For abstracts that are submitted after the October 18, 2009, we would be sending a mail by the November 10, 2009. Once you receive a confirmation of your abstract, you might decide to send your conference (and accommodation) fees as soon as possible.
So belt up and all the best!
Atanu

E-mailing your abstracts

2009-08-16T02:22:00.000-07:00

Please post your abstracts to the following id and not to the personal e-mail ids mentioned in the flier. If you wish you could send us a copy. This is to make sure that all the abstracts are collected in one place and there is minimal human error. Post to
janconfhmp@gmail.com

International Conference at H M Patel

2009-08-16T02:11:00.000-07:00

H M Patel Institute of English Training and Research
Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat
&
ELT@I
ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS’ ASSOCIATION OF INDIA
International Conference
on
Interactive Media in Pedagogy:
Learning English In & Beyond Classrooms
8-10 January 2010
at
H M Patel Institute of English Training and Research
Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat
Computers and technology play significant roles in our personal and professional lives today. In fact, they are playing dominant roles in the classroom and, whether we like it or not, are widely accessed by teachers and learners for varied purposes. The ubiquity of technology is something that can no more be denied, and therefore, needs to be addressed from a pedagogic platform. The aim of this conference is to explore, investigate, examine, evaluate and of course, critically probe the possibilities and limits of technology in the teaching of literature, language and education in general.
However, delving deeper, the conference also wishes to explore the tenuous, and yet, deeply enmeshed relationship between language and literature. That the two cannot be separated, and yet have been, is often seen as contentious and deeply ideological in nature. The questions then are: can technology play a role in bridging the gap that has been created? Could it be fruitful to teach the language to enrich literary experience and vice versa? Can technology, again, act as a buffer zone?
The conference, thus, would look into (re)defining literature, language and education vis-à-vis technological developments and how the three can be brought together into a meaningful relationship.
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
ELT@I and H M Patel Institute of English Training and Research, Vallabh Vidyanagar invites papers, workshop proposals and poster proposals from teachers of English from schools, colleges, universities and government academic departments, teacher trainers, research scholars, and interested professionals on the theme of the conference:
‘Interactive Media in Pedagogy: Learning English in & Beyond Classrooms’
The sub-themes of the conference are:
· Developing Critical Thinking through Technology
· Managing Mixed Ability Groups & Scope for Individualization: The Role of Interactive Media
· Using Technology for Distance Learning
· Role of Technology in English Teacher Education
· Using Multimedia for Self Instruction Materials in the English Classroom
· Using Web Resources for English Language & Literature Teaching
· Technology-based Teacher Produced Materials
· Implications of Technology for Second Language Contexts
· Teaching Literary Genres through Technology
· Creative Writing and Multimedia
· Technology, Testing and Assessment
· Evaluation of Multimedia Materials

Both abstracts and completed papers are to be typed as Microsoft Word documents in Times New Roman font of 12 points and 1.5 line spacing.
Each presentation would be of 25 minutes. The word limit for abstracts is 200 words and that of full articles is 2500 words. Selected papers would be published in a special volume of the ELT Quarterly (ISSN 0975-0258), a journal published by the Institute on a quarterly basis. Submission: One soft copy (either in a CD or as an e-mail attachment) and one hard copy
Submission
Deadline
Abstract
October 30, 2009
Paper
December 14, 2009
As the Conference can only accommodate a limited number of presentations, we recommend early registration.

Conference Fees
The Conference fees include conference pack, food (breakfast, lunch, dinner and tea/ coffee) and local sightseeing.
Registration deadline :
Registration Fees : For Indian delegates : Rs 1000/-
For foreign delegates : 50 US $
For Indian research students: Rs 500/- (Please attach a letter with the registration form from your institution stating that you are a full-time research student)

Payment:

Cheques or Bank Drafts may be sent in favour of ‘The Director, H M Patel Institute of English Training and Research, Vallabh Vidyanagar’ payable at Vallabh Vidyanagar. Please use at par cheques.
How to get to the venue:
Anand is situated on the main rail line between Ahmedabad and Vadodara.
By air
The nearest airport is Vadodara (35 kms approx). However, there are more regular flights from Ahmedabad (65 kms) to all the major cities of India. If you are travelling from outside India, then Mumbai would be a good option since there are connecting flights from Mumbai to Ahmedabad at frequent intervals.
From Vadodara or Ahmedabad hired taxis are available to travel to Vallabh Vidyanagar. The journey time is approximately 1 hour from Vadodara and 2 hours from Ahmedabad.
By rail
The nearest railway station is Anand. Auto-rickshaws are available from Anand Railway Station to Vallabh Vidyanagar on a regular basis. You can take a shared auto or a specially reserved one to Nana Bazaar in Vallabh Vidyanagar.
By road

From Ahmedabad (65 kms) and Vadodara (35 kms), you could travel by a state transport bus to Anand. There are also private buses that ply frequently on this route.

Accommodation for Indian Delegates:
Limited accommodation is available at the venue, so delegates are requested to make early bookings. The accommodation would be simple, modest and on a twin-sharing basis. An additional amount of Rs 700/- needs to be sent as accommodation charges.

Accommodation for Foreign Delegates:
The organisers have arranged accommodation at nearby hotels in Vidyanagar. The price band ranges from INR 1600 to 2000 (plus taxes) from which delegates can choose. In order to reserve accommodation at your preferred hotel, it is strongly recommended that you book your accommodation as early as possible. The accommodation charges would be over and above the registration fees.
To book accommodation, you can request an accommodation booking form by emailing sunilshah76@gmail.com and returning the form directly by e-mail to him. If you do not receive confirmation one week after sending your booking form, you are advised to contact him at the above email address or by telephoning +91 2692 230193 (between 11:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., Mon – Sat) or on +91 9924246069.
Weather and Local Attractions
January is a pleasant month in Gujarat and the temperatures are around 20 degrees Celsius. Heavy woolen clothes are not needed. However, delegates from warm places could carry a light sweater for early mornings and late evenings.
The 14th of January is celebrated in Gujarat as Uttarayan and the Government of Gujarat every year organises an International Kite Festival on the Sabarmati Riverfront. The festival starts about three days before the actual celebrations on the 14th. Delegates who wish to stay back during the festival may indicate so via e-mail. Special arrangements could be made for them to visit the Kite festival. The delegates would have to pay an extra charge for accommodation, food and transportation if they wish to stay back. For more details, contact sunilshah76@gmail.com

In addition to plenary sessions, paper presentations and workshops, delegates willhave opportunities for networking on an informal level at the venue. It is hoped theinteraction will offer delegates a chance to make new contacts, catch up withexisting teaching practices, share information and gather new insights and ideas to implement in their own contexts.

For more details, please contact the Coordinators at the followingaddresses:
1) Atanu Bhattacharya
+91 2692-230193, +91 9227160619
Email: atanu1071@gmail.com

2) Kiran Chauhan
+91 2692-230193, +91 9724342778
Email: kiran.elthmp@gmail.com
3) Dharmendra Sheth
+91 9825442418
Email: shethdharmendra@gmail.com; shethdharmendra@hotmail.com

Please visit our website for the latest information on the conference:
www.hmpenglish.edu.in