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    Japan 
    Asia 
    Europe 
    North America 
    Australia 
    Japan 

    August 4-6, 1998 

    CALL: Human Connections 
    3rd Annual JALT CALL NSIG International Conference on Computers and Language Learning in Japan 
    In conjunction with the West Tokyo/TMIT/Kitasato 
    CALL: Teacher Training Workshop/Forum 
    Location:  Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Technology, Toyoda Station (JR Chuo Line), Hino City, Tokyo 
    Featured speaker: Dr. Jeff Quinn, Director, English Centre, Sydney Institute of Technology. 

    Contact Tel/Fax: 0427-78-8052 (w) 0423-35-8049 (h) 
    Email: elin@gol.com, dbrooks@tkb.att.ne.jp
    Homepage: http://langue.hyper.chubu.ac.jp/jalt/nsig/call/call1.html. 

      

    August 4-6, 1998 

    Foreign Language Education and Technology in Asia: Interacting in Harmony with Software and Hardware 

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    WWW: http://LL7.miyazaki-mu.ac.jp/html/LLA/LLA98/LLA1.html 

      

    November 21-23, 1998 

    JALT 
    Omiya, Japan
    August, 2000 
    FLEAT IV (Foreign Language Education and Technology) 
    LLA (Language Lab Assocation of Japan) and IALL joint conference 
    Japan
      

    Asia 

      

    Europe 

      

    February 28, 1998 

    IATEFL Computer SIG 
    Theme: Using the World Wide Web for Language Teaching 
    Venue: Canterbury Christ Church College, UK 

    WWW: http://www.man.ac.uk/IATEFL/callsig/canter.htm 

      

    April 14 - 18, 1998 

    32nd IATEFL International Conference 
    UMIST, Manchester, The United Kingdom 

    E-mail: 100070.1327@compuserve.com 
    WWW: http://www.man.ac.uk/IATEFL/index.html 

      

    May 25 - 27, 1998 

    Speech Technology in Language Acquisition 
    Stockholm, Sweden 

    WWW: http://www.speech.kth.se/still/ 

      

    June 20-25, 1998 

    World Conference on Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, and WorldConference on Educational Telecommunications 
    Freiburg, Germany. 
    Hosted by Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany. 
    Organized by AACE--Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education Contact: ED-MEDIA 98/AACE, P.O. Box 2966, Charlottesville, VA 22902 USA 
    Telephone: 804-973-3987; Fax: 804-978-7449. 

    E-mail: AACE@virginia.edu 
    WWW: http://www.aace.org

      

    September 9-12, 1998 

    EUROCALL 98: From Classroom Teaching to World-Wide Learning 
    European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning Annual Conference 
    Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium 

    Deadline for Abstracts: 1 February '98 

    Contact: Claudine Van Volsem, EUROCALL 98, LINOV/UPV, Celestijnenlaan 200 A, B-3301 Heverlee, Belgium. Tel; +32 16 32 77 31; Fax: +31 16 32 79 75 or June Thompson, CTI Centre for Modern Languages, University of Hull, Hull HU6 7RX, UK 

    E-mail: eurocall98@linov.kuleuven.ac.be or EUROCALL@HULL.AC.UK 
    WWW: http://www.arts.kuleuven.ac.be/eurocall98 or http://www.hull.ac.uk/cti/eurocall.htm 

      

    September 16-18, 1999 

    Eurocall '99 
    Besancon, France 

    WWW: http://lib.univ-fcomte.fr/RECHERCHE/P7/EUROCALL/EUROCALL.html 

      

    North America 

    February 18-20, 1998 

    SALT - Orlando Multimedia '98 
    Hyatt Orlando Hotel, Kissimmee, Florida 

    WWW: http://www.salt.org/ 

     

    February 28-March 2, 1998 
    1988 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing 
    (ACM SAC '98): Fuzzy and Soft Computing Applications Track 
    Atlanta, Georgia, USA 
    Contact: Dr. E. Damiani, POlo Didattico e di Ricerca di Crema, Universita di Milano, Via Bramante 65, 26013, Crema Italy. Tel: +39 373 893 240. 

    E-mail: edamiani@crema.unimi.it 
    WWW: http://romeo.sci.univr.it/damiani_congr98.html 

     

    March 10-14, 1998 
    SITE 98--Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education 
    9th International Conference 
    Washington, DC, USA 

    WWW: http://aace.virginia.edu/aace/conf/site/home.html 

     

    March 17 - 21, 1998 
    TESOL'98 - Connecting our Global Community 
    Seattle, Washington USA 

    The 1998 convention will focus on how technology can facilitate the mission of TESOL. It is also our objective to reach out to TESOL professionals who may not be members of the organization and who may never have the opportunity to attend an annual convention. (For more information on funding and support available to TESOL members, see the 1997 Awards and Grants area of our website <http://www.tesol.edu/>. 

    TESOL '98 CALL-IS Software Applications Fair 
    WWW: http://www2.gol.com/users/rule/softfair/ 

    TESOL '98 CALL-IS WebFaire 
    WWW: http://spot.colorado.edu/~youngerg/webfaire98.html 

    May 27-28, 1998 
    SOCALL'98: Language Learning Technology for the New Century 
    Tulane University 
    New Orleans, LA 

    (IALL affiliate) 
    WWW: http://www.hfac.uh.edu/mcl/SOCALL/Association.htm 

     

    May 27-30, 1998 
    CATE '98: International Conference on Computers and Advanced Technology in Education 
    Cancun, Mexico 
    Contact: IASTED Secretariat - CATE'98, 1811 West Katella Avenue, Suite 101, Anaheim, CA, 92804 USA 
    Tel: 714-778-3230 
    Fax: 714-778-5463 

    E-mail: iasted@iasted.com 
    WWW: http://www.iasted.com/cate98/cancun.html 

     

    June 22-24, 1998 
    National Educational Computing Conference - (NECC)1998 
    San Diego Convention Center 
    San Diego, CA., USA 

    WWW: http://necc98.csusm.edu/

      

    June 25-27, 1998 

    3rd Canadian Conference on Computer-Assisted Language Learning: Practice and Projects 
    Church Point, Nova Scotia, Canada 

    Deadline for abstracts: 30 November '97 

    Contact: Ian M. Richmond, VRER, Universite Sainte-Anne, Church Point, NS B0W 1M0 Canada 
    Tel: +1 902 769 2114; Fax: +1 902 769 3120. 

    E-mail: richmond@ustanne.ednet.ns.ca 
    Web: http://ustanne-59.ustanne.ednet.ns.ca 

     

    July 6-10, 1998 
    CALICO '98: New Directions--New Paradigms 
    Wyndam-Emerald Hotel, 
    San Diego, CA July 6-10 

    Deadline for Proposals: Friday, January 9, 1998 
    WWW: http://calico.org/CALICO98.html 

     

    July 25 - 31, 1998 
    SYLLABUS '98: The Use of Technology in the Curriculum 
    Rohert Park, CA, USA 

    WWW: http://www.syllabus.com/papercall98.html 

     

    August 26 - 28, 1998 
    SALT - Interactive Multimedia '98 
    Crystal Gateway Marriott Hotel, Arlington, Virginia 

    WWW: http://www.salt.org/ 

     

    October 29-31, 1998 
    Tel*Ed 1998 
    New Orleans, Louisiana, USA and Victoria, B.C., Canada 

    WWW: http://www.iste.org/conferences/teled98/ 

     

    November 7-12, 1998 
    WebNet 98--World Conference of the WWW, Internet, and Intranet 
    Orlando, Florida, USA 

    Call for papers - March 5th 1998 at http://aace.virginia.edu/aace/conf/webnet/call98.html 

    WWW: http://aace.virginia.edu/aace/conf/site/home.html 

     

    November 20-22, 1998 
    ACTFL '98 
    Chicago, IL 

    WWW: http://www.actfl.org/ 

     

    February 17-19, 1999 
    SALT - Orlando Multimedia '99 
    Hyatt Orlando Hotel, Kissimmee, Florida 

     

    March 8-14, 1999 
    TESOL Annual Conference 
    Contact: TESOL, 1600 Cameron St., Suite 300, Alexandria, VA 22314-2751, USA 

    E-mail: TESOL@TESOL.EDU 
    WWW: http://www.tesol.edu/ 

     

    August 1999 
    SALT - Interactive Multimedia '99 
    Crystal Gateway Marriott Hotel, Arlington, Virginia
    February 16-18, 2000 
    SALT - Orlando Multimedia 2000 
    Hyatt Orlando Hotel, Kissimmee, Florida
      

    Australia 

    July 5-8, 1998 

    The Australian Computers in Education Conference 1998 (ACEC98) Adelaide, South Australia, Australia 

    Deadline for abstracts: 1 November '97 

    Contact: Dr Wing Au, ACEC'98, University of South Australia, St. Bernards Road, Magill 5071, South Australia, Australia. Tel: +61 8 8302 4543; Fax: +1 61 8 8302 4536 

    E-mail: wing.au@unisa.edu.au

     

    July 13-17, 1998 

    WORLDCALL 
    Melbourne, Australia 

    WWW: http://www.arts.unimelb.edu.au/~hlc/worldcall.html 


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