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<p align="center" style="text-align: left;" class=""><b style="font-size: 14px;" class="">24th RANACLES Conference</b></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align: left;" class=""><font style="font-size: 14px;" class="">24-26 November 2016</font></p>
<div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Paris - France</span></div>
<p align="center" style="text-align: left;" class=""><strong style="font-size: 14px;" class="">What Spaces for Learning and Researching Languages in the Digital Age?</strong></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">With the advent of Web 2.0 technologies, major shifts linked to globalization, mobility and community participation now challenge the traditional definitions of second language (L2) learning spaces, as well
as of spaces dedicated to research in the field of L2 learning and teaching.</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">These question the concepts of environment, time and space, or even negotiation of meaning and, in turn, offer multiple prospects for both L2 learning and L2 research.</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">The days when learners had to go from one place to another to consult information resources seem to be over, and the very nature and roles of L2 learning spaces may need to be reconsidered in many respects,
e.g., in terms of interaction, socialization, mutual confidence and cooperation… Hence the following questions: how can we define and describe the forms taken by these spaces? What are their functions and their roles? How can pedagogical design and spatial
design be articulated?</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">The digital world also makes it possible to expand the complexity of projects, and the study of learning processes related to this higher complexity is therefore becoming part of the research landscape. Such
is the case, for instance, of corpus building projects which make structured and contextualized data freely available, thus paving the way for collaborative research work.</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Presentations covering the following themes are particularly encouraged.</span></p>
<p class=""><strong style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Language centers: physical spaces, virtual spaces, or hybrid spaces?</strong></p>
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<p class=""><strong style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Autonomy of language centers in the institutional environment of university clusters</strong></p>
<p class=""><strong style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Language learning spaces and mobility</strong></p>
<p class=""><strong style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Spaces dedicated to assessment and certification</strong></p>
<p class=""><strong style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Formal and informal learning spaces</strong></p>
<p class=""><strong style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Personal learning spaces</strong></p>
<p class=""><strong style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Research spaces</strong></p>
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<p class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><span style="text-align: justify;" class="">The call for papers (in English and French) is available online: </span><a href="http://ranacles2016.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/6" class="">http://ranacles2016.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/6</a></span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Submissions should be uploaded on the Conference Management System by May 02, 2016.</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Abstracts should be approximately 2,000 characters long (<em class="">not</em> including spaces and references).</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Author notification is planned for the end of June (after review by a double-blind scientific committee). Publication of papers presented at the conference is being considered for the online journal Alsic
(<em class="">Apprentissage des langues et systèmes d'information et de communication</em>), according to the journal’s criteria. All papers submitted for publication undergo double-blind peer review and may be submitted in various languages, including French
and English. (<a href="http://alsic.revues.org/" class="">http://alsic.revues.org</a>)</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Contact : <a href="mailto:ranacles2016@sciencesconf.org" class="">ranacles2016@sciencesconf.org</a></span></p>
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