Doctor of Philosophy Programme (PhD)
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Education and Migration: Languages Foregrounded taking place at Durham University, UK from 21 to 23 October 2016. Please share the call and consider offering an abstract – details are provided in the attachment (including a publication opportunity) and brief highlights are included below.
21-23 (Friday – Sunday) October, 2016,
School of Education, Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom
International conference website
http://researching-multilingually-at-borders.com/
The conference brings together international keynote speakers and researchers who are researching and working on the borders of languages, languages pedagogy, and policy in contexts where people, and their migratory languages, are under pain and pressure.
Keynotes
Alison Phipps, University of Glasgow, UK
Hilary Footitt, University of Reading, UK
Martha Bigelow, University of Minnesota, USA
Conference themes
Inspired by the above panels, the conference invites papers and panels on research, pedagogies (multilingual, multimodal, multisensory, intercultural), policy development, and teacher practice concerning the opportunities and possibilities for multiple languages. Papers and panels may also address the following (and related) themes:
- Multilingualism in NGO education contexts
- Policy and language advocacy for multiple languages in the classroom
- Community schools and translanguaging in communities
- Teacher education in multilingual classrooms
- Languages and the intercultural citizen
- Modern foreign languages and multiple languages in schools—affordances and possibilities
- Languages in research, policy, teacher education
- Multimodal pedagogies for supporting language learning
- Critical and intercultural pedagogies
- Languages in contexts of discrimination, trauma, and exclusion: Implications for educational psychology and counselling; identity; multiple language literacies
Panels and speakers
The conference will also include five plenary panels. The following invited researchers/practitioners will each lead a panel (supported by two other experts), on the themes below. The panel will be 90 minutes (roughly 60 mins presentation and supported by 30 minutes of discussion).
1. Angela Creese (University of Birmingham) – Communities and education; translanguaging in communities; community schools
2. Mike Solly (British Council) – Languages for resilience: Languages education in the context of the Syrian crisis
3. Frances Giampapa (University of Bristol) – Children’s multilingual identities, language brokering, opportunities for multiple literacies; issues concerning ESOL/languages and mainstreaming
4. George Androulakis (University of Thessaly, Vólos)- Migration and schools: Policies for primary and secondary education in Europe.
We invite papers and panels that address these themes. Please submit a title, abstract of 300-350 words. Panels (or 3 or 4 participants) should include a title, brief introduction (50 words), title and abstract for each speaker (150-200 words each). Please include a brief bio of about 100 words for each speaker (include name and institution(s)).
Abstracts of papers and panels should be emailed to languages.2016@durham.ac.uk by 15th July 2016. Please include the name and email of the corresponding author. Abstracts will be reviewed by an advisory committee and participants will be notified of acceptance by 30th July 2016.
Why is legal language so complicated? Legislative drafters and linguists compare notes
Wednesday 29 June 2016, 14.00 to 17.30
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR
Description: The last decades have witnessed important innovations in legislative drafting but have we succeeded in producing perfect laws? Just because a bill has passed into law does not mean that its goals have been achieved. Indeed, the quality of legislation may not only be affected by the intrinsic drafting difficulties; the implementation of legislation may be significantly influenced by a range of ‘filtering agents’ at whom legislation is directed and who may constrain, adapt and modify the intentions that form the basis of the legislation approved in the first place. Looking at more ‘scientific’ disciplines, such as linguistics, may be of some help for the legislative drafter who wants to know how a piece of legislation has performed and the extent to which its goals will be achieved.
Speakers:
Hayley Rogers, Office of the Parliamentary Counsel, UK;
Maria De Benedetto, Roma Tre University, Italy;
Jerome Tessuto, University of Naples Federico II, Italy (TBC);
Stephen Neal, Professor of Philosophy and Linguistics, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, USA; Professor of Language and Law, School of Advanced Study, University of London;
James Hadley, Institute of Modern Languages Research, School of Advanced Study (SAS), University of London;
William Robinson, Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London;
Chair: Giulia Adriana Pennisi, University of Palermo, Italy and Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London
BOOKING: This event is free but advance booking is requested. To book please use the IALS Eventbrite page: http://bit.ly/1nN0VEw
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The 2017 conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) will be held at the Portland Marriott Downtown Waterfront in Portland, Oregon. Nationally and internationally, the AAAL conference has a reputation as a comprehensive and stimulating conference including in-depth colloquia and paper sessions, topical and thought-provoking plenary presentations, excellent book exhibits, and plentiful opportunities for networking. The theme for the 2017 AAAL Conference is “Applied Linguistics and Transdisciplinarity”.
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Submission Deadline: August 17, 2016, 5:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time
