A New Look at Language Teaching and Testing: English as Subject and Vehicle
　

Background and Purpose

“Millions want to speak it; millions more are finding they have to, whether they like it or not and many don’t like it at all.”  -- Ted Anthony

The 2009 LTTC International Conference aims to provide a platform for language experts, scholars, and practitioners to exchange ideas and share research findings related to the teaching and testing of English. Our primary concern is with those millions who, whether they like it or not, find themselves in the position of having to learn and use English in the age of globalization. For learners of English as a foreign/second language, English is clearly a vehicle in a double sense: it is both a medium of expression and a means of social advancement. Moreover, as an essential component of our being, language is more than just a vehicle, it is also a subject – again in a double sense: it is both an academic subject, and a constitutive-element that shapes the learner-user’s subject self. That is, by learning English, learners not only incorporate socio-cultural background information into their own selves, they also integrate conceptual models inherent to English into their own conceptual systems.

All proposals must be submitted online.