28.2446, Calls: Applied Ling, Lang Acquisition/USA

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LINGUIST List: Vol-28-2446. Thu Jun 01 2017. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 28.2446, Calls: Applied Ling, Lang Acquisition/USA

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Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2017 15:06:06
From: Rebecca Sachs [watesolpd at gmail.com]
Subject: WATESOL: Communicating in the 21st Century: Implications for Teaching and Learning

 
Full Title: WATESOL: Communicating in the 21st Century: Implications for Teaching and Learning 
Short Title: WATESOL 2017 

Date: 07-Oct-2017 - 07-Oct-2017
Location: Washington, DC, USA 
Contact Person: Rebecca Sachs
Meeting Email: watesolpd at gmail.com
Web Site: https://www.watesolassociation.org/Fall-2017-Conference 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisition 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 15-Jun-2017 

Meeting Description:

WATESOL's 2017 Fall Conference will feature a keynote address by Dr. Lourdes
Ortega, followed by a day of concurrent sessions, including practice- and
research-oriented sessions, graduate student research presentations, poster
presentations, and workshops, as well as Special Interest Group meetings,
roundtable discussions, an electronic village, and exhibitors. Participation
is not limited to the DC-area TESOL community; all are welcome to attend!

Proposal Submission Deadline: June 15, 2017

Date of Event: Saturday, October 7, 2017

Location: Trinity Washington University, 125 Michigan Ave NE, Washington, DC
20017

Website: http://www.watesolassociation.org/Fall-2017-Conference

Theme: Communicating in the 21st Century: Implications for Teaching and
Learning

Keynote Address: Reimagining English Competence for the 21st Century: A
Multilingual SLA Perspective

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Lourdes Ortega, Georgetown University

Abstract: 
Second-language users of English are bi/multilinguals with rich communication
repertoires. Yet all too often their English is construed as deficient and
their multilingual prowess is erased. In this talk, I reflect on what it means
for multilinguals to be communicatively competent and suggest ways in which
our pedagogies can respond to it. I will argue that, more and more, developing
language for communicating in the 21st century means developing the capacity
to use English for transformation and empowerment, so as to be able to claim
the right to speak (as Norton Peirce 1995 called it) and to exercise the power
to impose meanings (as Bourdieu 1972 called it). How do we achieve these new
goals? First, our language pedagogies must open up to the psycholinguistic
realities of multilinguals. Translanguaging might be a way to do so (García &
Li Wei, 2014). We will also need to help our students cultivate an awareness
of both world Englishes and unequal Englishes (Tupas, 2015). We must also
include strategies that help them recognize, disrupt, and productively exploit
to their advantage the experiences of being positioned by others as a novice,
a foreigner, an outside member, or a nonnative speaker. In sum, our pedagogies
must show that language is about identity choices and communication is about
power struggles. How do we meet this tall order? I believe both big and small
pedagogical practices can help the TESOL profession rise to the challenge of
meeting these 21st century goals for a reimagined English communicative
competence that is transformative and empowering.

Bio:
Lourdes Ortega is a Professor at Georgetown University. She has taught Spanish
in Greece, English in the United States, and since 2000 has worked with
language teachers and doctoral students in Hawaii, Georgia, Arizona, and
currently in Washington DC. She is committed to investigating what it means to
become a bilingual or multilingual language user later in life in ways that
can encourage connections between research and teaching and promote social
justice. She is the author of Understanding Second Language Acquisition
(Routledge, 2009). Her most recent project is The Cambridge Handbook of
Bilingualism, co-edited with Annick De Houwer and to be published in 2018.


Call for Papers:

WATESOL welcomes proposals from teachers, teacher educators, program
administrators, materials and curriculum developers, language assessment
experts, technology specialists, graduate students, researchers, and other
professionals in fields related to the learning and teaching of English as an
additional language.

We are seeking proposals for practice-oriented and research-oriented
presentations, graduate student research presentations, poster presentations,
electronic village presentations, and workshops. 

Call for Proposals: https://www.watesolassociation.org/Proposals/

Guidelines: https://goo.gl/l94Wv2

Submission form: https://goo.gl/O2EMQQ 

Deadline: June 15, 2017, 11:59pm Eastern time

Please read the proposal submission guidelines thoroughly and feel free to
contact WATESOL's Professional Development Co-Chairs at watesolpd at gmail.com
with any questions.

Exhibitors are welcome to contact WATESOL's Vice President at
watesolvp at gmail.com. Exhibitor registration opens June 1, 2017.




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