28.84, Calls: Italian, Applied Ling, Lang Acquisition, Ling & Lit, Pragmatics/Italy

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Subject: 28.84, Calls: Italian, Applied Ling, Lang Acquisition, Ling & Lit, Pragmatics/Italy

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Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2017 18:35:29
From: Luisa Gregori [gregori at wisc.edu]
Subject: AATI International Conference Abroad

 
Full Title: AATI International Conference Abroad 

Date: 28-Jun-2017 - 02-Jul-2017
Location: Palermo, Italy 
Contact Person: Colleen Ryan
Meeting Email: ryancm at indiana.edu

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Ling & Literature; Pragmatics 

Subject Language(s): Italian (ita)

Call Deadline: 20-Feb-2017 

Meeting Description:

The conference is open to all topics pertaining to Italian language and
literature, but the AATI invites colleagues to think in particular about
issues that relate to the current state of and events taking place in Italy
today. Along with general themes such as pedagogy, linguistics, culture,
literature, cinema, theater, Italian as a second language, Italian language
and culture abroad, migration and Italian identities in the world, history,
media, economy, the arts, etc., we also suggest a focus on more “local” topics
that have Palermo and its region as well as Sicily at their core.


Call for Papers:

Pragmatics and Italian Language Teaching:

Crystal (1997: 301) defined pragmatics as “the study of language from the
point of view of users, especially of the choices they make, the constraints
they encounter in using language in social interaction and the effects their
use of language has on other participants in the act of communication.” Over
the last 30 years, scholars in this field revealed how pragmatic skills (such
as making requests, complaining, refusing, giving compliments, and the like)
are not acquired intuitively by foreign or second language learners, even
after intensive exposure to and practice in the target language. They also
showed through longitudinal studies how the development of pragmatic
competence strongly benefits from instruction. Yet, so far pragmatics has not
often been the explicit focus of attention in foreign/second language
curriculum planning and design. 

This session invites papers that analyze how speech acts are realized in
Italian and how they could be effectively taught, examine the learnability of
pragmatic skills in collegiate environments, or investigate the reliability of
textbooks in raising learners’ pragmatic awareness.

Please submit a title, 300 word abstract, and a brief biographical note, by
February 10, 2017 to Luisa Gregori at gregori at wisc.edu.




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