Category: applied linguistics

Deadline January 30 #CFP Young language Learners Symposium 2016 U. Oxford

 

Call for Papers for the forthcoming Young language Learners Symposium to be held in July 2016, at the University of Oxford.

Young Language Learners (YLL) Symposium 2016

Department of Education, University of Oxford University

July 6th – 8th, 2016

Email: YLL2016@education.ox.ac.uk

Call for Papers

The organizing committee of the YLL Symposium 2016 invites the submission of abstracts on any research-oriented topic relating to the learning of a foreign, second or additional language by learners of primary school age or younger.

Presentation Format

Oral Presentations (individual or co-authored papers) to be given in a 20-minute oral presentation plus 10 minutes of discussion.

Poster Presentations (individual or co-authored papers). Posters should be prepared for A0 (841 x 1189 mm).

Submission Guidelines

• The word limit for abstracts is 350 words

• The total number of presentations per participant as first presenter should be no more than two, including a combination of oral presentation and/or poster presentation.

To submit an abstract please click here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=yll2016 You will need to create an account if you do not already have one. This can be done here: https://www.easychair.org/account/signup.cgi

Important Dates:

Deadline for submission of abstracts: January 30th, 2016

Notification of acceptance: by March 14th, 2016

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Victoria A. Murphy, PhD | Professor of Applied Linguistics
Department of Education | University of Oxford
15 Norham Gardens | Oxford | OX2 6PY | UK
Tel: +44(0)1865 274042 | Fax: +44(0)1865 274027

REAL GROUP: http://www.education.ox.ac.uk/research/applied-linguistics/r-e-a-l/

For NALDIC, the subject association for EAL – www.naldic.org.uk

Young Language Learners 2016 Conference: http://www.education.ox.ac.uk/research/applied-linguistics/the-young-language-learners-yll-symposium-2016/

New @umnoticias @sepiegob international @EUErasmusPlus CLIL project

 

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Vocational guidance in CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning).

Researchers involved at UMU Dr. Pilar Aguado, Dr. Purificación Sánchez and Dr. Pascual Pérez-Paredes, Languages for specific purposes, language corpora, and English linguistics applied to knowledge engineering research group.

More info here.

2nd Intl Conference on the Sociolinguistics of Immigration Abstracts until Dec 20

 

Through the AESLA list

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2nd International Conference on the Sociolinguistics of Immigration

Rapallo (Italy), September, 22-23, 2016
The aim of the Conference is to focus on epistemological and methodological continuities and discontinuities in the sociolinguistics of immigration. Several new researches and approaches have begun to emerge in the last few years: translingualism, polylanguaging, truncated repertoires, crossing metrolingualism.
Two main processes have contributed to this change: the epistemological orientation towards postmodernist and critical social theories within sociolinguistics as well as applied linguistics, linguistic anthropology and related disciplines and globalization.
The focus of attention of the 2nd International Conference of the Sociolinguistics of Immigration is to explore these research orientations, whilst also aiming to critically discuss these and any (dis)continuities and/or potential links between “old” and “new” orientations.
The confirmed plenary speakers will be: A. Creese and A. Blackledge (University of Birmingham) and M. Hundt (University of Zürich).

Abstract Submission
Each abstract should not exceed 500 words (incl. at least four keywords and references). Text should be justified and single-spaced (font size: Times New Roman 12pt).
Name, affiliation, and e-mail address should be on separate first page of the electronic copy.
Every individual presentation will last 20 minutes (plus 10 minutes for discussion and questions).

Important dates
The abstract submission period opens on October 20, 2015.
Abstracts can be submitted until December 20, 2015 and sent as a word attachment to gerardo.mazzaferro@unito.it.
Confirmation of acceptance: January 20, 2016.
Registration for the conference starts on October 20, 2015 and closes on February 20, 2016.
Conference dates: September 22-23, 2016 .

Further details on the conference can be found at: http://www.dipartimentolingue.unito.it/slimig2016/oss-home.asp

Tasks, technologies and Machinima Prof. M. Thomas @Cambridge_Uni

 

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RSLE Talk 27 Ocober 2015, University of Cambridge

Michael Thomas, UCLAN (www)

The Camelot Project

New project on learning analytics, focus on detection. Visualization.

Other projects: http://avalonlearning.eu/

Techno-evangelism

Diane Laurillard

Neil Seelwyn & Facer The politics of education and technology

Methodoogical weaknesses in CALL research

TBLT in technology-mediated contexts

 

TBLT: Current research overwhrlmingly focuses on teachers’ perceptions

Education as product, as employability, getting a job

Opportunities offered by TBLT: Ortega 2009

Online technologies: constructuvist pedgogies, simulation, learner motivation, collaboration, IT and digital literacy skills

Other projects: http://avalonlearning.eu/

 

EU FUNDED CAMELOT PROJECT (2013-2015)
CAMELOT stands for” CreAting Machinima Empowers Live Online Language Teaching and Learning”. This project has been funded with support from the European Commission (Project number: 543481-LLP-1-2013-1-UK-KA3-KA3MP). The information on this website reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

Different types of activities. Emphasis on anybody can produce.

Camelot webinars: http://camelotproject.eu/webinars/

Camelot MOOT (MOOC): http://camelotproject.eu/moot-3/

 

 

 

 

Using the CEFR: Principles of Good Practice @Cambridge_Uni

 

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The CEFR is a comprehensive document, and as such, individual users can find it difficult to read and interpret. The Council of Europe has created a number of guidance documents to help in this interpretation. Helping you find your way around the CEFR and its supporting documents is one of our key aims in creating Using the CEFR: Principles of Good Practice. If you want a brief overview of the CEFR read Section 1 of this booklet. If you are a teacher or administrator working in an educational setting and would like guidance on using and interacting with the CEFR then reading Section 2 will be useful to you. If you want to find out about how Cambridge ESOL works with the CEFR then read Section 3. Each section is preceded by a page that signposts key further reading.

Here’s the CEFR online pubication.

CFP Migration Discourses across Languages, Societies and Discourse Communities

 

Migration Discourses across Languages, Societies and Discourse Communities

part of CADAAD 2016 at the University of Catania, 5-7 September 2016.

While in the last two decades public and political discourses about migration have been studied within a range of countries and languages, only a small amount of research has been concerned with comparing and contrasting migration discourses across languages, societies and discourse communities. The panel invites such comparative and contrastive approaches to migration discourses with the aim of carving out their potential to reveal common threads of migration discourses as well as those that are determined by specific historical, political and social contexts. In so doing, we may be able to track the similarities and shared frames of migration discourses across contexts.

We invite comparative studies of migration discourses based on a range of text types, languages and discourse communities including, but not limited to the following:
– Newspaper discourse across languages
– Social media discourse across languages/discourse communities
– Political discourse across parties, languages or discourse communities
– Inter- or intralingual comparison of the discourses of different stakeholder communities

We welcome papers coming from a variety of theoretical and methodological angles, including but not limited to:
– Corpus assisted discourse approaches
– Discourse historical approaches
– Cognitive approaches
– Argumentation
– Media Communication Studies
– Multimodal Discourse Analysis
– Discourse Psychology
– Pragmatics
– Sociolinguistics

Please send an abstract of 300 words (excluding references) attached to an email to Charlotte Taylor (charlotte.taylor@sussex.ac.uk) or Melani Schröter (m.schroeter@reading.ac.uk). The abstract should be anonymised, but please include in your email your name, institutional affiliation and preferred email address for correspondence with the panel organisers.
Submissions need to be received by 30 November.

Please see http://www.cadaad2016.unict.it/ for information about the conference. For more information about the planned panel, please contact Charlotte Taylor (charlotte.taylor@sussex.ac.uk) or Melani Schröter (m.schroeter@reading.ac.uk).