28.5199, Calls: Applied Linguistics/Spain

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LINGUIST List: Vol-28-5199. Fri Dec 08 2017. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 28.5199, Calls: Applied Linguistics/Spain

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Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2017 14:52:00
From: Xavier Fontich [xavier.fontich at uab.cat]
Subject: 3rd International Conference on Teaching Grammar

 
Full Title: 3rd International Conference on Teaching Grammar 
Short Title: congram19 

Date: 23-Jan-2019 - 25-Jan-2019
Location: Barcelona, Spain 
Contact Person: xavier fontich
Meeting Email: xavier.fontich at uab.cat
Web Site: https://congram19engl.wordpress.com/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Jun-2018 

Meeting Description:

The research groups ‘Grup d’Investigació sobre Ensenyament i Aprenentatge de
Llengües’ (GREAL), ‘Grup d’Investigació en Ensenyament de Llengües’ (GIEL),
and the Faculty of Science of Education of the Autonomous University of
Barcelona (UAB) are pleased to announce the III International Conference on
the Teaching of Grammar (Congram19), which will take place at the Autonomous
University of Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain) from the 23 to the 25 of January
2019.

Research in the teaching of grammar is an area of great wealth and academic
controversy. The role of grammar in the teaching of first, second and foreign
languages has been repeatedly questioned in recent decades, which has greatly
reduced its presence in language education, the consequences of which are
worrying. At present we know that grammatical knowledge is essential in
helping students convert language into a tool of conscious reflection. This is
crucial in regulating the use of effective communication in a highly literate
society. We also know that such knowledge should be part of the general
culture of any citizen, and is necessary to contribute to the appreciation of
languages as diverse manifestations of the human capacity of language.

Research shows, however, that an individual’s grammatical repertoire of
concepts and procedures is not learned automatically or in a transmissive way.
This opens up a large number of questions, both in local and foreign
languages, which should be explored in depth: what is the most suitable
content for grammatical instruction? What is the most suitable gradation of
such content according to different levels of difficulty? What else should we
know about the relationship between grammatical instruction and developmental
stages? What is the relationship between varied linguistic uses and formal
grammatical, semantic and pragmatic concepts? What teaching strategies should
be adopted? Which initial and permanent teacher training forms are most
effective? What are the adaptation processes of linguistic contributions to
needs of the school? What should be the lines of research into the pedagogical
system formed by content-teaching-learning? What are the possible ways of
integrating the languages of the curriculum and enhancing students’ linguistic
awareness in non-linguistic areas? What is the relationship between
grammatical knowledge, written language and linguistic use in general? And, of
course, how does historical research help to shed light on these issues?

We invite all researchers interested in the subject, and who are willing to
contribute to the debate on the questions that grammar instruction poses, to
participate in the conference.

Keynote Speakers:

Debra A. Myhill (University of Exeter, UK)
Enrique Bernárdez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
Joaquim Dolz (Université de Genève, CH)
Mª Josep Cuenca (Universitat de València – Institut d’Estudis Catalans, Spain)


Call for Papers:

Oral presentations: Proposals should present research results or reflections
on specific aspects of the conference sections. Each participant may submit a
maximum of two papers or a paper and a poster. In the case of proposals with
more than one author, all authors must register for the conference. The
stipulated time for the presentation of each paper is 20 minutes.

Posters: Posters will have an eminently practical character (teaching
experiences, projects for the teaching of grammar, development of didactic
activities, etc.). There will be a poster session on the 23rd and another on
the 24th, during which the authors will explain their work.

Symposia: These sessions will gather presentations of research groups or
researchers with similar interests around aspects related to the teaching of
grammar. Each symposium will have a person in charge, who will coordinate with
the organizers of the conference. The symposium will have a maximum duration
of 120 minutes and up to four speakers, from at least three different
universities. Each of them will have a maximum of 20 minutes for the
presentation of their work.

Important Information:

a) The deadline to submit proposals is June 1, 2018 at 23:59.
b) Symposium proposals, papers and posters will be peer reviewed.
c) Both the papers and the posters must be presented at least by one of the
authors. Presentation by non-authors is not permitted.
d) Information about how to submit will be sent out in a future announcement.

Languages of the conference: Spanish, Catalan, English, French and Portuguese




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