The First International Conference on New Trends in English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics was held at Golestan University, northeastern Iran, on February 15.
A total of 400 people took part in the conference.
Two workshops ran by Dr. Kamran Ahmad Goli and Professor Alireza Jalilifar were held on the sidelines of the meeting, dealing with literature, arts and text analysis.
The conference focused on curriculum development in language teaching and discourse, language assessment and testing, acquisition of second language, and many more pertinent subjects.
The secretary of the seminar and vice-chancellor of University of Golestan for research affairs and secretary of the conference Dr. Mahnaz Aghdasi, in an address to the audience, called for "better teaching” of the English language. Aghdasi noted that Iran is in dire need of international-style teaching of English, which is the most widely spoken language in the business world and international community.
Another speaker at the event was scientific secretary of the conference Dr. Ali Derakhshan who thanked the audience for their participation and hoped for a wider audience and larger scale participation in the next meeting.
The other speakers, who took the floor in the conference, were Professor Mohammad Alavi from Tehran University, Professor Reza Pishghadam from Ferdowsi University of Mashad, and Dr. Farzad Sharifian from Australia’s Monash University.
Renowned and distinguished professors and instructors from Tehran’s Allameh Tabataba’i University, University of Tehran, Kharazmi University, Shahid Beheshti University, Ahvaz University as well as universities of Isfahan, Shiraz, Hamedan, Tabriz, Mazandaran, and Islamic Azad University also attended the meeting.
Out of 448 scientific articles sent to the secretariat of the meeting, 237 were selected for aural and 37 for poster presentation.
The 2nd International conference in English language teaching will be held at Golestan University in the next two years.
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