CFP: Cultural and linguistic practices in the international university

[Francis Hult]

http://imw.ruc.dk//calpiu/calpiu/news_files/CALPIUconferencefirstcall.pdf

 

First Call for papers

 

Cultural and linguistic practices in the international university

 

International conference at Roskilde University

Monday, December 15, 2008 - Wednesday, December 17, 2008

 

The conference is the first open conference arranged by the CALPIU network for

the study of cultural and linguistic practices in international universities.

The aim of the CALPIU network is to prepare an international Centre for Cultural

and Linguistic Practices in the International University, and thereby to coordinate

Danish, Nordic and international research into a new theoretical understanding of

internationalization processes currently underway in universities and other

institutions of higher education.

 

The network focuses on the function of language in social and cultural practice at

the international university, especially the significance of language proficiency

and language choice within a context marked by the development of power

relations and hierarchies of influence. It also considers the significance of these

power relations and hierarchies of influence vis-à-vis the organisation, didactics,

learning processes and academic content of educational programmes in the

humanities and social and natural sciences.

 

The CALPIU Network was initiated by a group of researchers within

sociolinguistics, conversation analysis, discourse, and communication analysis at

Roskilde University, Denmark. It now links more than 40 senior and junior

researchers from 21 universities and research centres in Denmark, other Nordic

countries (Finland, Norway and Sweden), and beyond (Australia, Japan, India,

China, UK, and Spain).

 

The purpose of the upcoming conference is to discuss various aspects of the

consequences of student mobility. Student mobility makes adaptation and

learning both necessary and possible; and involves cultural as well as linguistic

accommodation and learning processes. In order to further theoretical

understanding of these processes, we are not only witnessing the huge increase

of the use of English as a lingua franca by academic teachers and students, but

an equally huge increase in learning and use of other languages, as well as the

development of active and passive multilingualism and language alternation in

interaction.

 

There will be three plenary lectures, but the invited scholars have not confirmed

their participation yet.

 

Papers will be organized in panels of three types:

Featured panels (prearranged by the organizers, participation on invitation)

Proposed Panels (proposed and arranged by participants)

Organized panels (put together from individual paper proposals)

Each panel will consist of one or more 'slots' of 80 minutes each. A panel has a

chairperson and (optional) discussant.

 

Possible topics:

English as a lingua franca in international university programs

Other lingue franche in international university programs

'Bilingual' and 'monolingual' media in learning and teaching

The cultural role of the transnational students' mother tongue (or language of

primary literalization) in learning in a foreign language context

Teaching in another language

Learning in another language

Teacher roles and authenticity

Language hierarchies in the international university

Relevant study skills in an international context

Academic literacy and "Widening Participation" in Higher Education

Interactional aspects and group dynamics

 

Details about venue, accommodation, deadlines for submission of panel or paper

proposals, etc. will be published in the next circular which will be posted on

CALPIU's web site, calpiu.dk

 

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