<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">Forwarded From: <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lpren@caltalk.cal.org">lpren@caltalk.cal.org</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 10:59 AM<br><br> CALL FOR PAPERS: AILA Featured Language Policy & Politics Symposium<br>
<br><b><span style>AILA Featured Language Policy and Politics Symposium</span></b><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style>Please submit proposals to
<a href="mailto:LPREN@cal.org" target="_blank">LPREN@cal.org</a> by <b>August 15, 2013</b>.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style>Include: A title; 300 word abstract; presenter name and affiliation, and email contact information.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style>Title:<br>
</span></b><span style>Directions in Language Policy Research: How Compatible Are Current Approaches?<br>
<b>Co-Organizers:</b><b><br>
</b>Terrence G. Wiley, Center for Applied Linguistics & Arizona State University<br>
James W. Tollefson, University of Hong Kong<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style>Abstract:</span></b><b><span style><br>
</span></b><span style>Approaches to language policy analysis are sometimes dichotomized as either focusing on social structure (historical-structural approaches) or emphasizing creative agency within the public sphere. This panel explores Tollefson’s
(2013) contention that there is no inherent theoretical conflict between these approaches, but instead the differences are “a matter of emphasis...or perhaps even the temperament of different researchers.” Rather than focusing on the differences between these
approaches, Tollefson contends that the crucial questions for LP research are: “Under what conditions are the state and other powerful institutions (e.g., corporations and non-governmental organizations) able to impose their will on individuals and communities
through language policies? Under what conditions can individuals and communities act as agents in their own language learning and language use?” Through research-based examples, the panel will critically address these questions, examine the relationship between
historical-structural and public sphere approaches, and explore future directions for LP research and policy analysis.<br>
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<b>Background:</b><b><br>
</b>In a review of approaches to language policy analysis, Tollefson (2013, <i>Language Policies in Education: Critical Issues, Second Edition
</i>) noted that “we find in language policy research today a division between an emphasis on the relatively deterministic historical-structural paradigm and on the relatively creative public sphere paradigm. The former emphasizes the important role of social
structure (particularly class, as well as race and gender) in shaping and constraining language policies … whereas, in contrast, the public sphere paradigm emphasizes the agency of all actors in the policymaking process, particularly their ability to alter
what seem to be coercive and deterministic trajectories of class-based policymaking bodies and other institutional forms and structures.”<br>
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<b>LPReN Call for Symposium Papers</b><br>
The Language Policy Research Network, hosted by the Center for Applied Linguistics, solicits abstracts for an invited symposium on language policy at AILA 2014 in Brisbane, Australia. Through a juried selection process, research-based policy analysis papers
will be selected that exemplify (a) critical historical-structural approaches to LP research and/or (b) ethnographic or other approaches that examine individual or community agency. Submissions should indicate how they address the major questions identified
in the session abstract (above).<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style>This session is organized by Terrence Wiley of the Center for Applied Linguistics and James Tollefson of the University of Hong Kong.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style>Proposals will be evaluated through a juried review process. Although LPReN is facilitating this session, no resources are available to sponsor travel to the conference. Thus, those submitting will need to cover
their travel and conferences expenses.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p> LPReN serves as a conduit for the dissemination of information by its members without implying endorsement of concepts or opinions expressed.</p>
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