26.1526, Calls: Armenian, Language Acquisition/France

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Subject: 26.1526, Calls: Armenian, Language Acquisition/France

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Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 14:14:07
From: Anaïd Donabedian [adonabedian at inalco.fr]
Subject: Innovation in Education: Challenges in Teaching Western Armenian in the 21st Century

 
Full Title: Innovation in Education: Challenges in Teaching Western Armenian in the 21st Century 
Short Title: WArm21 

Date: 21-Sep-2015 - 22-Sep-2015
Location: Paris, France 
Contact Person: Anaïd Donabedian Ani Garmiryan
Meeting Email: warm21conference at etudes-armeniennes.org
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/site/teachingwesternarmenian/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition 

Subject Language(s): Armenian (hye)

Call Deadline: 28-Apr-2015 

Meeting Description:

Teaching Western Armenian in the Armenian Diaspora in the 21st century means facing several challenges, from very theoretical ones (L1 vs. L2 vs. heritage language, acquisition vs. learning, language endangerment and literacy) to the practical issues (class organization, assessment, pedagogical innovation, professional development for teachers, Armenian as second language training for teachers, etc.) that follow from them.

Although these issues may be discussed in depth among specialists of language acquisition and teaching, the agents in the field (teachers, school directors, etc.) are still too isolated in their everyday duties to be concerned about seeking out and implementing research-based best practices. This is partly due to the lack of applied research specifically concerning Armenian language acquisition and teaching. The purpose of this conference is to bring together specialists of language acquisition and teaching, scholars as well as stakeholders of successful models of second language / heritage language teaching, concerning the Armenian language and comparable situations, in order to outline the priorities of an applied research program for the Western Armenian language today.

Call for Papers:

The conference welcomes papers on theoretical issues of language learning, teaching and acquisition, applied to second language or heritage language, with a broad disciplinary scope (education, linguistics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, anthropology, sociology, history), applied papers on innovative approaches of teaching Armenian or languages of comparable profile (course design, progress standards and assessment, school design and administration, assessment of stakeholders’ interest, targeted intervention, etc.)

Anonymous abstracts will be evaluated by blind peer review, with attention to:

- The relevance to conference's goal
- The clarity of the argument
- The level of interest of practical issues raised in the proposal, and the value of the data provided in support to the argument

Abstracts should not exceed 1 page, an additional page can be accepted for references and data (corpus, examples).  

Abstracts are accepted in Armenian, English or French. However, in order to facilitate the evaluation of abstracts by experts out the field of Armenian studies, we encourage to provide an English or French translation of the abstract. Please note that this applies only to submission process.  Presentations will be accepted in any of the three languages. 

To apply: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=warm21

Calendar:

Submissions deadline: April 28, 2015
Notification of acceptance: May 30, 2015
Program release: June 15, 2015




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