MATE 39thAnnual Conference: Marrakech, Morocco, 01-04 April, 2019
Theme: “The Third millennium ELT Curriculum: Towards
Building Capacity, Empowering Leadership and Developing Entrepreneurial Skills”
"‫ ﻧﺤﻮ ﺑﻨﺎء اﻟﻘﺪرات وﺗﻌﺰﯾﺰ اﻟﻘﯿﺎدة وﺗﻄﻮﯾﺮ ﻣﮭﺎرات رﯾﺎدة اﻷﻋﻤﺎل‬:‫" اﻷﻟﻔﯿﺔ اﻟﺜﺎﻟﺜﺔ وﻣﻨﮭﺎج اﻟﻠﻐﺔ اﻻﻧﺠﻠﯿﺰﯾﺔ‬:‫ﻓﻲ ﻣﻮﺿﻮع‬
Announcement & Call for Proposals
Rationale
As the world continues on its path towards globalization and
interdependence, many challenges still impede the global
community to come together as one and coherent city. To face
these challenges, international cooperation and education for
global citizenship have become an imperative for the world
societies to promote a culture of peace, sustainability,
tolerance, and inclusion. The password to access this most
wanted positive change is an education that is rooted in
humanistic philosophy and fueled by the principles of the
global self and collective intelligence.
To deal with the digital learners, the 3rd millennium
curriculum designers need to address important questions such
as: What is the best education needed for the 21st century
learner? What implications will it have for training, teaching,
and learning? How will schools be conceived to embrace all
these new roles?
Serious examination of these questions should enlighten
strategic choices in educational design that will inform
decisions on how schools will fulfill their complex mission of
preparing the taskforce and creating good citizens. Securing
continuous economic development, while ensuring
environmental safety and sustaining growth, is the biggest task
pending for future generations. The profiles of future learners,
therefore, will imperatively deal in capacity building,
leadership skills and entrepreneurship.
In Morocco, although recent educational reform has generated
a lot of debate around the declining levels of educational
performance, the ministry of national education is aware of the
big challenges awaiting our educational reform movement and
hence should pave the way to a curriculum reform geared
towards capacity building, entrepreneurship and leadership skills.
In view of that, Moroccan Association of Teachers of English
(MATE), being a major partner of the ministry of national
education in leading innovative educational initiatives, will
hold its 39th annual conference under the following theme:
“The Third millennium ELT Curriculum:
Towards Building Capacity, Empowering Leadership
and Developing Entrepreneurial Skills”
This conference will address this issue from different
perspectives. Experts in the field of education, educational
psychology, applied linguistics, and language education in
general, are called upon to contribute to this debate and
suggest, through the different conference formats, successful
strategies and techniques to help reach these objectives.
Conference objectives:
The main objectives of the conference, among other things, are to:
 define the concept of English Language Curriculum in the
21st century in the light of current educational challenges;
 discuss the dimensions of different skills sought through
curriculum design
 refine teaching standards concerning entrepreneurial and
leadership skills
 revisit students’ needs in terms of teaching materials and
the different teacher roles in this regard.
Conference sub-themes:
The following sub-themes are preferred (the following list is
by no means exhaustive):
 The twenty first century language curriculum design
 Leadership skills development
 Entrepreneurial skills development
 Youth empowerment and community service development
 Action-based learning for collaborative development
 Project implementation and social integration
 Team-oriented critical thinking development
 Design thinking and capacity building
 Empowering young people through national youth services
 Education and training for youth workers
Presentation formats
 Oral presentation papers (20 minutes)
 Workshop presentation (55 minutes)
 Poster presentation throughout the conference
 Panel discussions
 Social activities.
Abstract submission and deadlines
In order to present at the conference, proposals should be
submitted to and approved of by MATE conference scientific
committee, while respecting the following deadlines:
 Abstract submission deadline is: 20 February, 2019
via the conference online form at (copy and paste):
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/12BQp9h81YkOhyt_arIr
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 Results of abstract reviews will be returned to authors
within 2 weeks after the deadline.
 Full paper submission is mandatory by 30 March, 2019.
To be sent to the following email address:
mate.morocco79@gmail.com
More Information
For more information about this conference and about our
other events, please use our
- Email address: mate.morocco79@gmail.com
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