28.3525, Calls: Historical Ling/USA

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Subject: 28.3525, Calls: Historical Ling/USA

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Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2017 11:30:23
From: Audrey Becker [abecker at marygorve.edu]
Subject: International Congress on Medieval Studies

 
Full Title: International Congress on Medieval Studies 
Short Title: IMC 

Date: 10-May-2018 - 13-May-2018
Location: Kalamazoo, MI, USA 
Contact Person: Audrey Becker
Meeting Email: abecker at marygrove.edu

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-Sep-2017 

Meeting Description:

Rethinking the Coverage Model in the History of the English Language Course
(roundtable), Kalamazoo IMC 2018

Compressing 1500 years of English language history into a 14 week semester
poses no shortage of challenges. Not only does the traditional History of the
English Language (HEL) course aim to impart foundational knowledge from a
range of disciplines—linguistics, geography, social and political history,
grammar, and literature—but the dominant, content-dense textbooks presuppose
copious knowledge with which many students—especially North American
students—have limited familiarity. This roundtable panel aims to reassess the
coverage model in the HEL course and to examine the efficacy of innovative
approaches to teaching Old English, Middle English, and Early Modern English
as part of a History of English Language curriculum.


Call for Papers:

In “The End of the History Survey Course: The Rise and Fall of the Coverage
Model” (2011) Joel Sipriss & David Voelker historicize the academic debate
about the merits and limitations of the “default” coverage model, a model
which privileges content knowledge and facts over disciplinary methods and
critical thinking. With arguments that may productively be applied to the HEL
course, Sipriss and Voelker argue for the need to “dislodge the coverage
model.” To that end, papers are invited that do the following: propose
innovative pedagogies for HEL; present alternatives to (or decreasing reliance
on) textbooks; discuss experiments with non-chronological sequencing; explore
ways to incorporate role-playing or other interactive pedagogies; address
approaches that shift the balance of pre-modern to modern, or British to
non-British Englishes; share strategies for implementing/introducing digital
resources, etc.

Proposals for presentations of no more than 10 minutes should be sent to
Audrey Becker (abecker at marygrove.edu) no later than Sept. 10, 2017. Proposals
should be accompanied by the Participant Information Form, available at
https://wmich.edu/medievalcongress/submissions.

Those who are not currently members of the Medieval Association of the Midwest
are welcome to submit to sessions sponsored by the MAM but are expected to
join ($25) upon acceptance.




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