FLTAL 17’ A N G L U N A G G I E E R T E O F A C N H O I N E G C N A E N R D E F A N P P O L C I E L D A N L O I I N T G A U N I R S E T T I C N I S on Foreign Language Teaching and Applied-Socıo Linguistics International Conference 11-13 May, 2017 Astana, Kazakhstan “Transitions and Transformations Intercultural/Multilingual Education at the Crossroad of Foreign Language Learning” This conference invites papers that investigate foreign language teaching andlearning in the following streams: Applied linguistics Cognitive linguistics Cognitive and construction grammars Discourse analyses English for specific purposes Independent / Autonomous learning Innovation in language teaching and learning Intercultural Education Language acquisition and learning Language curriculum development Language education Language development, impairment,attrition, and loss Language teacher education Language teaching methodology Language testing and assessment Language program evaluation Linguistics Literature Mental spaces and conceptual blending Metaphor and metonymy Pragmatics Reading development for young learners Semantics Sign Language TESOL / TESL / TEFL Other FLTAL related issues Conference web site: www.fltal.org Conference email: fl[email protected] Conference Chairman: Prof.Dr. Azamat Akbarov Conference Venue: Eurasian National University LIVE CONCERT ASTANA CITY MAY 13 TRIP ASTANA CITY MAY 14 SULEYMAN DEMIREL UNIVERSITY Professor of Applied Linguistics and TESOL Graduate School of Education Anaheim University USA Professor of Applied and Sociolinguistics Centre for Language and Discourse Communication King’s College London United Kingdom Ben Rampton David Nunan www.fltal.org 1/1 Abylai Khan Street, Kaskelen Almaty, Kazakhstan, 040900 FLTAL G U A G E N A T E L A N C G H I I E N R G O A F N N D O A E P C P N L E I E R D E F - S N O O C C I L O A L N I N O I G T U A I N S R T E I T C S N I “BUILDING CULTURAL BRIDGES” Professor of Language in Education School of Education, Communication Society King’s College London United Kingdom Guy Cook Susan Gass Milena Žic-Fuchs Paul Kei Matsuda Professor of English Department of English Arizona State University USA Professor of Cognitive Linguistics Faculty of Humanities University of Zagreb Croatia Professor of Second Language Acquisition School of Second Language Studies Michigan State University USA Tanat Ayapova Professor of Foreign Philology Department of Foreign Language Education Kazakh National Pedagogical University Kazakhstan