International Conference on Taiwanese Romanization

Call for Paper

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Conference Theme : The Function of Mother Tongue Literature in Mother Tongue Education

Purpose : Literature education has been laid great emphasis upon in compulsory education of every advanced country around the world. Mother tongue Literature in mother tongue education should certainly play a very important role in Taiwan as well. Mother tongue education in Taiwan has been practiced for more than four years. Has mother tongue literature played an important role the way as it has been expected? Has its function been elaborated? How have the mother tongue literature and mother tongue education been carried into practice in other countries? Can we learn from the experience from them so that we could practice our mother tongue education more smoothly? Of course, we have acquired the actual experience through the four-year execution of mother tongue education. In addition to theory discussion, we would discuss more on teaching materials, education policy, and teacher training programs.

The date of the conference: Sept. 9th ~10th, 2006

Location : National Taiwan Normal University

Deadline for abstract submission: May 31st, 2006

Deadline for full paper: July 31st, 2006

Text:

This conference seeks for papers publicly. Please submit title, outline and an abstract within 500 words for us to examine. Submissions may be related to the topics provided. If the contribution accumulates more than we acquired, we would give priority to adopt the papers highly related to our theme of the conference.

Topics:

1. Study on Literature Education

2. Study on Mother Tongue Literature and Publication

3. Study on Teaching Methods of Mother Tongue Literature

4. Study on Mother Tongue Education

5. Study on Taiwanese Linguistics and Sociolinguistics

6. Comparison of Mother Tongue Revitalization Movement between Taiwan and other countries

7. Comparison of Language Policy and Mother Tongue Education between Taiwan and other countries

Format of paper:

Please type with computer. The length of the article basically is estimated to be at least 15000 words but no more than 20000 words. （including abstracts, footnotes, references, appendix, charts, etc. ）The abstract is required no more than 500 words with 3~5 key words listed.

Please give a copy of Texts and abstracts saved as Word and PDF document respectively. Also, please attach another file with the information oof the author, address, phone number, fax, email address, affiliation, etc.

Contact :

Chief assistant Sun-beng Yang 0937747976；Assistant secretary Chian-nan Chen 69426012@ntnu.edu.tw

Email address for submission : Him-gi Loa 69426007@ntnu.edu.tw

Web site：http://ictr2006.taibun.tw/

Address: No. 162, Ho-Ping E. Road, Sec.1, Taipei 106, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Taiwanese Culture, Language and Literature

Directing organization : Ministry of Education

Sponsor: National Taiwan Normal University, National Museum of Taiwan Literature

Cosponsor : Taiwan Romanization Association, World Coalition for Taiwanese Languages, Taiwan WhaleTaiwanese Language Education Association, Taiwanese Language Teachers’ Association

Organizer：Graduate Institute of Taiwanese Culture, Language and Literature National Taiwan Normal University