April, 2024
Krabi, Thailand
online support
Scholars and practitioners are invited to submit proposals for colloquia, papers, poster sessions, data sessions, or practical workshops for teachers which focus on CA(-informed) curriculum work. This is broadly defined as any aspect of theoretically motivated or practitioner-oriented activity that focuses on pre- or in-service teacher training and development work, needs analysis, materials design, methodology and formative/summative assessment that is achieved in and through classroom-related talk, including online chat-based interactions. Important dates include: 300-word abstract submission Jan. 1-31, 2024; Acceptance notification: Feb 28, 2024; Payment confirmation: March 15-25, 2024. Download Template
All proposals should include:
These documents should:
Abstracts will be blind reviewed by CARDIT reviewers, who will evaluate the clarity, specificity, and originality of the proposals and submit their reviews and recommendations to the symposium organizers. The decisions based on this review process are final. All submissions should plan for 20 minutes of presentation + 10 minutes for discussion with the audience (total 30 minutes). See below for additional information for colloquia, poster sessions, data sessions and practical workshops.
is a research approach developed by Harvey Sacks in sociology that has gained popularity in various disciplines, including anthropology, communication studies, health science, social psychology, linguistics, and language education. It has expanded to reveal how social beings carry themselves and participate in interactions in non-institutional and institutional settings. In the East, CA-oriented research has gained a presence in countries like Japan, South Korea, and China, exploring how different languages influence conversational practices and cultural norms. CA has also been applied in online interactions, multimodal CA, and healthcare and education, with research focusing on improving doctor-patient communication and language teaching and learning processes.
Thailand’s CA-informed research is in its infancy, with most of its research confined to EFL teaching contexts. CA requires specialized training, a linguistics background, and specialized software access. Training programs, workshops, and consultations with experienced researchers are necessary to provide guidance, mentorship, and inspiration for teachers and novice researchers. However, Thailand has not yet hosted specific events to identify CA-informed researchers, introduce CA, and promote collaboration in developing and spreading CA-informed research for national, educational, and academic growth. Thus, we propose convening the first International Symposium on Conversation Analysis: Research and Development Innovations in Thailand (CARDIT). We therefore cordially invite all participants from across the world and especially in the ASEAN region to submit their proposals.
This symposium aims to initiate an on-going conversation among teachers, teacher trainers, administrators and scholars to discuss the most recent advances in Conversation Analysis (CA) and how insights from this field might be applied to meet the everyday needs of teachers and researchers at all levels of Thai education. Thus, the main objective of this symposium is to bridge the well-known gap between classroom practice and CA theory in Thailand and, by extension, other ASEAN countries which use English (with varying success) as an official language or lingua franca in areas of national importance such as economic development, health, communication, and education. Abstracts may be submitted in Thai or English.
The desired products of this symposium include:
are probably the most familiar kind of teacher/professional development activity in EFL. Organizers of workshops should plan for an event that lasts 30 minutes. A signup sheet will be provided so that each workshop will have a maximum of 20 pre-registered participants. Workshops are typically very practically oriented and are essentially “how to” sessions during which, for example, presenters and their peers discuss problems that commonly occur in their classes. Presenters should begin by briefly sharing (maximum of 10 minutes) any kind of pedagogical data—video/audio recordings, transcripts, lesson plans/teaching materials of all kinds, classroom activities such as error correction, oral, listening, writing, and reading teaching techniques, tests, etc.—that they have used in their classes and which either went well or not so well (both options are equally valuable!). They should then invite their peers to comment on these activities and share their own experiences with other attendees.
are a type of professional activity that is unique to conversation analysis and is a key tool in the ongoing professionalization of beginning and experienced CA researcher/practitioners alike. They are, in a sense, a more academically oriented version of workshops. Organizers of data sessions should plan for an event that lasts 30 minutes. A signup sheet will be provided so that each data session will have a maximum of 10 registered participants. Presenters who wish to conduct data sessions should prepare a short video/audio recording (maximum of 5 minutes) for the session and provide an accompanying CA or words only transcript of the interaction so that participants can understand the audio part of the data as easily as possible as it is being played. Presenters who have the necessary technical skills to provide subtitles for participants are strongly encouraged to do so (if presenters don’t already possess these skills, see how to use YouTube Creator Studio for free at: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2734796?hl=en). Presenters should begin the session by briefly explaining (no more than 5 minutes) what kind of empirical feedback they are most interested in getting from colleagues. They should then invite all attendees to provide their feedback about, and their insights into, the data set.
are informal activities that are often (though not exclusively) used by teachers and/or graduate students who are at the beginning of their careers and who therefore do not yet have much experience in communicating effectively with their colleagues at conferences and other professional events. Presenters should prepare a JPG file of a single-page E-poster with the Landscape (horizontal) orientation (40.97”×23.04” or 104.06cm ×58.52cm) on the topic that they wish to talk about. See a sample here. The presenters should be available to give a brief oral account of why they are interested in their topic and to talk informally about their posters with attendees who walk up to their posters.
Language of the Symposium
English & ThaiDeevana Plaza Aonang - Krabi, Thailand
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International travelers should plan to arrive in Bangkok (or the airport in Malaysia) and then transfer to a flight that goes to Krabi International Airport (KIA). Flights are operated by the following airlines: AirAsia, Bangkok Airways, flydubai, Scoot, Sichuan Airlines, Thai Airways International, Thai AirAsia, Thai Lion Air, Thai Smile or Thai VietJet Air.
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The official venue for the Symposium is the Deevana Plaza Hotel, Krabi-Aonang; you may book your accommodations at this hotel or if you wish, explore other possibilities (see https://www.trivago.com). You are encouraged to do so well in advance as Krabi is an up-and-coming resort and hotels can fill up quickly.
Krabi has a good selection of Thai and other restaurants at different price points, bars and other typical amenities that are essential to the enjoyment of all visitors including, of course, wonderful white sand beaches. These beaches should be particularly attractive for participants from the northern parts of Europe and the USA! See the suggested list of such places to visit.
