CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS
It is a great pleasure and an honor to invite you to take part in the VIII International Scientific Conference for Students “Professional Skills for Global Communication in the Digitalized World” that is going to be held on April 17, 2020 at Samara State Technical University, Samara, Russia.
The conference is being organized by the Department of Linguistics, Cross-cultural Communication and Russian as a Foreign Language of Samara State Technical University in cooperation with the Department of Education of Samara City Administration.
This event is for students (high school-college) interested in exploring current concepts and issues concerning globalization and digitalization in the modern world and their influence on the integration of an individual into professional community. Students will have an opportunity to share original ideas, compete in presentation skills, meet keynote speakers and discuss professional skills for a global career with top-level managers of multinational corporations.
This event will also offer professional development workshops for educators to discuss and outline strategies and methods to foster the development of professional communicative competences among students entering the global workforce.
We are seeking presentations that discuss:
a) Business and professional skills for intercultural communication
• communicative: “soft skills”, presentation skills, large and small group meeting facilitation, negotiation skills, etc.
• technical and technological: “e-literacy”, facility with professional virtual communication networks and platforms
(e-mails, virtual meetings, social networking and marketing, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc.)
• rhetorical: knowledge of specific genres of speech, purposes and communicative tasks, knowledge of etiquette, etc.
• cultural: competences of working across languages and national cultures
b) Managing diversity, including conflict resolution in a multicultural organization
c) Role of a national culture in multicultural business
d) Issues of organizational and corporate cultures in multicultural operations
e) Any of the above in connection with teaching and learning in a college classroom
Types of participation at the conference
Ø oral presentation
Ø prerecorded video presentation
Ø Skype presentation
Ø audience
DEADLINES
Registration Deadline (a registration form should be sent by e-mail conf-samgtu@bk.ru): March 1, 2020
Power Point Presentation Submission Deadline for an oral presentation: March 20, 2020
Video Submission Deadline for a prerecorded video presentation: April 1, 2020
Full Paper Submission Deadline (if publication in the journal is preferred): April 1, 2020
All Power Point Presentations will be peer-reviewed. Invitations for an oral presentation will be sent in case of a positive decision not later than March 25, 2020.
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Oral or Skype presentation format:
Students prepare reports and PowerPoint presentations within the scope of the conference theme. The speech should be based on students’ own creative ideas or research. It should have a distinctive structure including introduction, main body and conclusion. Presentations can be made either individually or in the groups of 2-3 students.
Language: English.
Timing: 7 minutes.
Video presentation format:
Students prepare creative videos to disclose their vision of the conference theme. The video can be taken either in formal or informal settings. It can be made individually or in the groups of 2-3 students.
Language: English.
Timing: 4 minutes.
The best oral and video presentations will be honored with I, II, III place awards. All members of the conference will get Certificates of Participation.
The proceedingsof “Professional Skills for Global Communication in the Digitalized World” will be issued in June 2020 in the journal “Vestnik of Samara State Technical University. The Series: Psychology and Pedagogics”, which will be available electronically. The journal is included in the list of peer-reviewed scientific publications (http://vak.ed.gov.ru) and is indexed in the national information-analytical system RISC.
Scientific mentors of all participants are invited to publish their research on the topic in the proceedings of the conference, both individually and with their students. The suggested length of the paper is 8-15 pages. Languages of publication: English, Russian. Author Guidelines will be sent to you immediately after registration.
No fees are charged for participation or publication.
CONTACT
Ekaterina Gradaleva
Conference Chair
PhD, Associate Professor
Samara State Technical University
e-mail: conf-samgtu@bk.ru
tel.: +79270057100
Maria Houston
Conference Co-Chair
PhD, English Faculty
TAMUT, USA
e-mail: mhouston@tamut.edu
tel.: +14129790806