TBLT 2009
Lancaster
‘Tasks: context, purpose and use’
3rd Biennial International Conference on
Task-Based Language Teaching
13-16 September 2009
Under the auspices of the International TBLT Consortium and
the Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University
The first international TBLT conference was hosted in 2005 at the University of Leuven in Belgium and the second international conference on TBLT was hosted in 2007 at the University of Hawaii, Honolulu. As in the two previous conferences, we look forward to bringing together researchers and educators from around the world to share and learn from one another’s innovations and research in task-based language teaching.
Plenary Speakers
Geoff Brindley
(Macquarie University, Australia)
Zoltán Dörnyei
(University of Nottingham, UK)
Bernard Mohan
(University of British Columbia, Canada)
Lourdes Ortega
(University of Hawaii, USA)
Featured Colloquia
Convenors and colloquium themes:
Folkert Kuiken & Ineke Vedder
(University of Amsterdam)
Theme: Tasks across the modalities
Alison Mackey
(Georgetown University, US):
Theme: Tasks and the interaction hypothesis
Virginia Samuda
(Lancaster University, UK):
Theme: Teachers' uses of tasks in the classroom
The conference will be held in the university’s well-equipped conference suite. The nearby city of Lancaster has a distinguished historic castle and boasts several jewels of Georgian architecture. It is within 30 minutes of the Lake District, beloved of walkers, fell runners, rock climbers, painters, poets and writers. The campus is also close to a spectacular coastline stretching from Glasson Dock, a couple of miles away, through Morecambe Bay to the coast of the Southern Lakes, and also lies within easy reach of the Pennines and the Yorkshire Dales.