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As the chair of The Second Conference on ELT in the Islamic World, I am immensely privileged to work with a team of committed colleagues and prominent professionals serving on numerous conference committees. I would like to thank them all for their continuing support and persistent help. I would also like to welcome all prospective presenters and participants to one of the largest EFL conferences held in Iran.
The Second Conference on ELT in the Islamic World plans to build on the remarkable success of the 2010 conference which gathered together scholars from more than 10 countries to share their research interests. The conference seeks to make a determined attempt to broaden the international scope of the presentations. As with the previous conference, there will be a number of professional workshops and an impressive line-up of keynote speakers who will share their new insights with you.
The theme of the conference is Research-Practice Symbiosis, reflecting the fact that neither would thrive without the existence of the other. Classroom teachers need the findings of research to improve their practice and researchers, in return, need classroom practice as an educational arena to evaluate and further promote their theories. Therefore, the conference aims to provide an ideal forum for researchers, scholars, practitioners, and students in the field of Applied Linguistics from the Islamic World to share and exchange their scholarly interests and research findings.
I assure you that the conference will be a unique ELT event, one that will stimulate and facilitate dialogue between researchers and practitioners. I sincerely look forward to meeting you at the conference.
Sasan Baleghizadeh
Conference Chair
Assistant Professor of TEFL
Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
sasanbaleghizadeh@yahoo.com
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