Dear friends and colleagues of LANGSCAPE,

Please, find attached the call for papers for the next LANGSCAPE doctoral seminar. It invites doctoral students and candidates working on multilingualism, language teaching and learning, language teachers’ education and professional development. We kindly ask you to forward the call to interested students.

Kind regards

Bettina Kaiser

CALL FOR PAPERS

LANGSCAPE Doctoral Seminar

Thursday 7 July 2016: 1.00 pm – 7.00 pm

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Unter den Linden 6

10099 Berlin

Submission deadline: 8 May 2016

The LANGSCAPE Doctoral Seminar invites doctoral students and candidates working on multilingualism, language teaching and learning, language teachers’ education and professional development to present and share their work in a collaborative way.

When submitting a proposal you may choose between two basic formats: an oral presentation or a workshop format. Please choose the format that you think will best meet your expectations regarding the discussion of your research. Submissions for both formats will have to comply with the requirements described below:

• Each oral presentation should last no longer than 20 minutes. Oral presentations will be gathered in panels of two to three contributions. Each panel will run for 90 minutes allowing for discussion of each presentation. Participants who will choose an oral presentation will focus on theoretical, methodological, general aspects of their work and/or the discussion of potential results of their research. Oral presentations should aim at highlighting key aspects of the Ph.D. project in a concise way.
• Workshop sessions will run for up to 60 minutes. Two to three participants may work together to present specific aspects of their work. Proposals for this format will have to take into account that other participants will join the discussion in Berlin. The workshops are expected to combine a collaborative perspective with a “hands-on” approach. (Possible themes include: data discussion sessions, discussion of methodology etc.)

We invite proposals with a maximum length of 500 words. Abstracts should be submitted at https://sites.google.com/site/langdocsember2016/ by 8 May 2016. For any further questions concerning the doctoral seminar, please, contact jose.aguilarrio[at]univ-paris3.fr.

The Doctoral Seminar will be followed by the LANGSCAPE VUM Symposium at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin between the 8^th and 9^th July 2016. Participants of the Doctoral Seminar are invited to stay for the Symposium. More detailed information will be forthcoming.

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Dear Langscape members,

please, find attached the following announcement of the conference “The Future of Multilingualism in the German Education System” taking place in Berlin between the 3rd and 4th of March 2016.

Detailed information: sprachen2016.de

Although half the world’s population is multilingual and the number of multilingual citizens in Germany is steadily increasing, multilingualism is still perceived not as an opportunity but as an obstacle on the way to a successful societal integration. Furthermore, multilingualism is beneficial in many ways and is a huge resource for today’s society. Being capable of speaking three languages is one of the primary education policy goals of the European Union and the support of multilingual development offers a solid basis for the further course of life.

Roughly twenty percent of the population in Germany uses one more language other than German within their families. Thus, hundreds of thousands of children in Germany are raised multilingually. The number of people who use Russian and Turkish along with German in everyday life is the highest.

German educational institutions have reacted fairly slowly to the fact that more and more children are being raised multilingually. Even though there are many bilingual kindergartens and schools in which bilingual education incorporates the languages spoken in Germany, education in the language of origin still remains at the margin nationwide. In this situation, the demand is considerably greater than the supply and is certainly not limited to Turkish and Russian.

It is the goal of the conference »The Future of Multilingualism in the German Education System: Russian and Turkish in Focus« to make a scientific and pedagogical-methodical contribution to current research and to the implementation of Turkish and Russian in the educational context. The conference aims at fostering the exchange between experts from the fields of multilingualism research and education policy, and from educational institutions and migrant associations. Thereby, the awareness of the benefits of multilingualism will be promoted and a positive attitude towards multilingualism and multilingual language acquisition among children will be reinforced. Scientific knowledge will be made more accessible for more immediate implementation.

In plenary presentations with invited speakers and numerous workshops, current issues in multilingualism will be discussed and presented to a broader public; examples for »good practice« will be introduced. The participation of international researchers enables intense discussions of various aspects of multilingualism and the experience of various countries can be shared. For instance, the issue of the necessity of regular language assessments and their particularities in multilingual children will be raised and the significance of holistic/crosslinguistic language support in early childhood and in kindergarten will be discussed, as well as the role of a home language, bilingual literacy, intercultural competence and the potential of language support programs in schools.

Dear friends and colleagues in Langscape,

Please find below the call for papers for a conference on Languages and Cultures organised by the Languages and Cultures Department at Sheffield Hallam University. The organizers hope to welcome many colleagues from within and outside the UK.

Kind regards,

Bettina Kaiser

Languages and Cultures in 21st Century Transnationality CFP
Languages and Cultures at Sheffield Hallam University,
City Campus, Sheffield, S1 1WB
Friday 9 and Saturday 10 September 2016
Abstract deadline: 31 March 2016

The concept of transnationality is increasingly common currency in the globalized world.
Modern Languages, both implicitly or explicitly, deals with the transnational aspects of cultures and, as a discipline, it is hence ideally suited to have societal impact on the construction of transnational education. Intercultural citizenship, in particular, is becoming a sine qua non in the Twenty-First Century. Modern Languages poses multicultural and multilingual questions about identity, subjectivity and alterity of past, present and future. As academics we represent institutional power and theoretical knowledge; we are mediators between theoretical processes of conceptualization and practical moments of interpretation; information brokers and hence in the fortunate positions to bring about social change.

The aim of the conference is to bring together scholars from Applied Linguistics, Intercultural Studies and European Cultural Studies to create intercultural and interdisciplinary synergies that go beyond national borders, linguistic silos or academic canons, and thus echo practices of human mobility. Themes of particular interest in the three streams include, but are not limited to:

Applied Linguistics:
·       CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning), technology-enhanced learning, film as teaching tool
·       language acquisition, language planning
·       learner autonomy, student engagement
·       multilingualism, translation
·       discourse analysis

Intercultural Studies:
·       citizenship, identity, multiculturalism, nationhood, race
·       intercultural awareness, communication, competence, education, management
·       tourism, postcolonialism
·       international student migration

European Cultural Studies:
·       the transnational currency of popular cultural products
·       translations, transpositions, transmediality
·       synergies/dialogues across national cultures
·       intersections of culture with other fields/disciplines (history, law, literature, sociology, technology)
·       dialogues across sociocultural strata (e.g. popular and elite cultures)
·       fluidity of identity

We invite proposals for 20-min papers; proposals for panels are also welcome. 250-word abstracts should be submitted by 31 March 2016 to Dr Anja Louis at: a.louis@shu.ac.uk Abstracts should include the author’s name, affiliation and email address.

Please specify ‘Languages and Cultures Conference’ in the subject of your email.
We will acknowledge receipt of all abstracts submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us within two weeks, you should assume we did not receive your email.

Dear LANGSCAPE members,

please, find attached the announcement of the next DILTEC event:

DILTEC colloque international

“Ethique et responsabilité pour la didactique des langues au XXIe siècle”

October 21 and 22, 2016

Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3, Paris

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Kind regards

Bettina Kaiser

Dear LANGSCAPE members,

the next LANGSCAPE meeting as well as the LANGSCAPE doctoral seminar will be taking place in Barcelona in a few days. Please, find below the details of the two events.

LANGSCAPE doctoral seminar

Date:            13th Oct. 2015

Time:            9.30-13.00 pm

Place: Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Campus de la Comunicació-Poblenou, room 52.217

Link to location: http://www.upf.edu/campus/comunicacio/

Further information: seminario-doctoral

Attachment below: Agenda and Abstracts of the doctoral seminar

LANGSCAPE Meeting: Board of Directors and Members

Date:            13th Oct. 2015

Time:            4.00-8.00 pm

Place: Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Campus de la Comunicació-Poblenou, room 52.415

Link to location: http://www.upf.edu/campus/comunicacio/

Attachment below: Agenda of the meeting

As a final step in our preparations, could you please send nominations of prospective members to Langscape by the 9th of February. “Nomination” here is meant to refer to people who might be interested in LANGSCAPE and whom we should extend an invitation to.

Thank you very much for your input. I am looking forward to meeting you all in Barcelona very soon.

Please, do not hesitate to contact me for any further questions.

With kind regards from Berlin,

Bettina Kaiser

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Dear colleagues at Langscape,

I would like to draw your attention to a EU-project in which the Humboldt-University (Dpt. EFL-Methodology) acts as one of six internatinal partners. I would also like to invite you to participate in the final conference in Las Palmas (Gran Canaria, Spain) from Nov. 30 – Dec. 1st 2015. You find all relevant information below.

The project titled “playingCLIL” is supported by the European Commission within the Lifelong Learning Programme – KA 2 Languages (2014-15). The project consortium consists of six partners from four countries (Germany, Romania, Spain, and the United Kingdom) working in a variety of educational contexts (formal and informal education and higher education).

The project aims at developing a teaching method for Content-and-Language-Integrated Learning (CLIL) which is based on the principles of drama pedagogy using drama games as default settings for classroom activities.
The project targets CLIL teacher and teacher educators at universities and teacher training colleges alike.
PlayingCLIL games are currently being tested by collaborating teachers in primary, secondary, vocational and adult education. A comprehensive collection of tested games will be available as a comprehensive handbook (print and an e-book version) in early December 2015.

The playingCLIL project team invite the CLIL research and teaching community to attend the “European playingCLIL Conference – Method – Practice – Perspecitves” hosted by the Universitad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria from Nov. 30th to Dec. 1st, 2015. The conference will be dedicated not only to the release of the handbook but first and foremost to a general and practical introduction to playingCLIL, voices from the classroom, and discussions by educators and CLIL experts on future perspectives of CLIL in Europe.

www.playingclil.eu

Please forward this information to other colleagues interested in the topic.

Contact: Stephan Breidbach

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Multilingual CALL: Multilingual Language Learning with Digital Media in Primary and Secondary Classrooms
Frankfurt, February 17-18, 2016

Learners of a second or foreign language are not homogeneous with regard to their linguistic backgrounds and their degree of fluency in different languages. Students often have skills in more than one language, including languages previously studied at school, as well as heritage and minority languages. These skills can range from basic conversational skills to fully developed cognitive academic language proficiency (CALP). Teachers are expected to diagnose the different needs of all pupils and cater for them in the mainstream classroom. CALL – computer assisted language learning – can potentially contribute to this.

Online interactions that bring together speakers of different languages, for example telecollaboration and virtual tandems, can add depth and complexity to a language learning setting. Who speaks which language to whom and when? Why? Is code-switching permissible? Many decisions regarding language choice are made by teachers and learners alike, but which “language choice designs”, which “language choice strategies” are most beneficial for learners?

Despite these relevant questions, very little research has been conducted on multilingual CALL. Usually, issues of multilingual language practices in CALL are mentioned only in passing, often based on the assumption that they constitute a problem that needs to be addressed. Sometimes, unspoken assumptions about a monolingual ideal in language instruction (cf Gogolin 1994, Butzkamm 1973) permeate CALL designs – but these assumptions are rarely empirically tested or theoretically challenged

This conference aims to increase the awareness of the existence and functions of multilingual materials and multilingual language use in CALL contexts. Furthermore, it will contribute to a critical assessment on widespread assumptions regarding monolingual/multilingual practices in CALL.

Further information and registration: Multilingual-CALL-2015

Please, find attached the call for contributions.

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There is an open call for papers out for contributions to a special-topic edition of the International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. We forward this to you in case you are interested.

CALL FOR PAPERS

International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism: Special Issue 2017

As guest editors of a Special Issue of the International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, we invite you to submit proposals on the following topic:

Instructional practices and teacher development in content and language integrated learning (CLIL)

The aim of this Journal is to be thoroughly international in nature. It disseminates high-quality research, theoretical advances, and international developments related to initiatives in bilingualism and bilingual education. Each year the International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism devotes two of its issues to Special Issues. Previous Special Issues have tended to receive remarkable praise, particularly as they focus on one issue and often provide a major step forward in the study of a particular topic,

This Special Issue on CLIL seeks:

• To promote theoretical and applied research conducted in the context of CLIL and other content-based programs such as immersion.
• To disseminate information about best practices in content-based instruction.
• To provide a truly international exchange on how CLIL pedagogy is applied in a wide range of educational settings.

Authors are invited to submit proposals focusing on instructional practices and teacher development in CLIL at any educational level and in any educational setting. Both state-of-the-art articles and empirical studies are welcomed. Manuscripts submitted should be original, not under review by any other publication and not published elsewhere.

Important dates:

– Deadline for 200-250 word abstracts: 15th September 2015. Proposals should be submitted by email attachment to the co-editors at yolanda.ruizdezarobe@ehu.es and roy.lyster@mcgill.ca.

They should contain the author’s name, affiliation and e-mail address.

– Notification of acceptance/rejection: 1st November 2015. Please note that selection of the proposal does not always guarantee publication.

– Deadline for full papers (no longer than 7,000 words including notes and references): 15th February 2016.  Each article will receive two independent and anonymous reviews.

For further information on the journal’s submission guidelines please visit.

http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/rbeb.

With best wishes,

Yolanda Ruiz de Zarobe and Roy Lyster

Dear (spontaneous) LANGSCAPE members and friends,

on behalf of Itesh Sachdev, member of the LANGSCAPE Board of Directors (Research Projects), I would like to forward the call for participation in an one-day seminar on

“Re-visiting the pedagogy of the languages of minority communities“

organised by the Institute of World Languages at SOAS (University of London) and Mercator (Fryske Academy). The event takes place on Friday, 26th June, registration deadline is on 22nd June!

For detailed information on the programme and registration formalities, please refer to the announcement attached here.

Kindest regards,

Claudia Schmidt