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Read MoreWelcome to ICELS 2019
With an overwhelming amount of knowledge created in the past century, the academia should have but to forego the breadth of the body of science, stripping of traditional polymathy at the price of achieving greater depth. Specialisation began and distinct disciplines hatched one after another. Not long after, the realisation that borrowing from the breadth is the quintessence of digging deeper dawned and interdisciplinary approaches to research regained in ever more significance; a trend we should like to identify as reverting to reshaped polymathy.
In the same vein, such fields of study as Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), Translation and Interpreting Studies (T&IS), and Literature soon lent themselves well to poly-disciplinarity (as is so termed today), and explorations began in the nexus between these disciplines and a wide range of (other) disciplines as diverse as linguistics, cultural studies, IT, psychology, and even medicine, to name but only a handful.
Yet, TESOL, T&IS, and Literature, as offshoots of the mother trunk of the English Language Studies (ELS), have remained estranged and although all the three benefit from contributions of other disciplines substantially, research within ELS has failed to create any intradisciplinary added value.
It is against this backdrop that the Department of English at the Faculty of Foreign Languages of the University of Isfahan would like to seize the opportune occasion of its 60th anniversary and take a step towards the Reconciliation of the Disciplines across English Language Studies.
The University of Isfahan is therefore proud to announce that it will be hosting the First University of Isfahan’s International Conference on English Language Studies (UI-ICELS) on 11-13 December 2019 in the beautiful city of Isfahan, Iran.
The 1st UI-ICELS endeavours to address the English language-related issues of import, novelty, and relevance in our context. As such, UI-ICELS 2019 welcomes all research, be it empirical, theoretical, or still case studies, across the English Language Studies that will potentially contribute to the reconciliation of our respective disciplines.
The UI-ICELS welcomes contributions in the following areas: Preferred Conference Sub-Themes
Abstract nitty gritties
Abstracts:
1) Should be between 200 to 250 words;
2) Can be written in English or Persian;
3) Will be reviewed and might be edited by the conference editors;
4) Abbreviations should be kept to a minimum;
5) Use standard abbreviations and place unusual abbreviations or acronyms in parentheses after first use;
6) Make the abstract as informative as possible;
7) If it is possible, use this structure (without the headings):
- Background (optional)
- Aims
- Methods
- Main Findings
- Implication (optional)