30.754, Confs: Applied Linguistics, Lexicography, Sociolinguistics/United Kingdom

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Subject: 30.754, Confs: Applied Linguistics, Lexicography, Sociolinguistics/United Kingdom

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Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2019 23:47:41
From: Tomislav Stojanov [tstojan at gmail.com]
Subject: Language rules? Languages, Standards and Linguistic Inequality: Multilingualism and Variation in Education, Law and Citizenship

 
Language rules? Languages, Standards and Linguistic Inequality: Multilingualism and Variation in Education, Law and Citizenship 

Date: 15-Apr-2019 - 17-Apr-2019 
Location: Nottingham, United Kingdom 
Contact: Nicola McLelland 
Contact Email: nicola.mclelland at nottingham.ac.uk 
Meeting URL: http://www.meits.org/events/event/language-rules-languages-standards-multilingualism-and-linguistic-inequalit 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Lexicography; Sociolinguistics 

Meeting Description: 

As part of the AHRC-funded project Multilingualism – Empowering Individuals,
Transforming Societies (www.meits.org), Language Rules brings together
practitioners – teachers, speech therapists, examiners, dictionary-makers,
lobbyists, policy-makers, and others – with academics to examine how
assumptions about correct, acceptable or standard languages impact on everyday
life in a multilingual world, and how to tackle potential inequalities.
 

Program:

Monday, April 15, 2019

12:15-1:00:
Registration, tea/coffee and buffet lunch

1:00-1:30:
Welcome (Prof. Nicola McLelland & Dr Annette Zhao, University of Nottingham)

1:30-2:30:
(In)visible Languages and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (Prof. Bettina
Migge, Professor of Linguistics and Head of School in the UCD School of
Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, University College Dublin)

2:30-3:30:
Round-table: Languages ,(in)visibility and inequality in schools, colleges and
universities (Prof. Bettina Migge (University College Dublin), Dr Linda Fisher
(Education, Cambridge), Dr Angela Gayton (Education, Cambridge), and others)

3:30-4:00: Tea and coffee break

4:00-5:00:
Verbal violence, sociolinguistic inequalities, glottophobic discriminations –
is sociolinguistics in court such a good idea? (Dr Marc Debono, University of
Tours, France)

5:00-6:00:
LEVERHULME PUBLIC LECTURE Language Standards and Linguistic Inequality in
Europe (Prof. Doug Kibbee, Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor at the
University of Nottingham, and Professor Emeritus, Centre for Global Studies,
University of Illinois)

6:00-7:00:
Reception and launch We are Multilingual MEITS project launch (led by Dr.
Linda Fisher)

7:30: Dinner

Tuesday, April 16, 2019

9:00-10:00:
Round table: Learning from history – how understanding the multilingual past
can inform the present (panel led by Dr Andreas Krogull (MEITS, Cambridge),
with Dr Liv Walsh (French, Nottingham), Prof. Jeroen Darquennes (University of
Namur, Belgium)

10:00-11:00:
Round table: Speech therapy and language standards and variation (panel led by
Dr. Jenny Gibson, Lecturer in Psychology and Education, Cambridge)

11:00-11:30: Tea and coffee break

11:30-12:30:
Round table: Multilingualism, language standards, standard languages, and the
law (panel led by Javier Moreno-Rivero (Cambridge), with Gearóidín McEvoy
(School of Law and Government, Dublin City University), Manuela Guggeis
(Lawyer-Linguist at the EU), and Colin Robertson (Council of the European
Union))

12:30-1:15:
The German Micro-census, the Language Question and European Language policies
(Dr Astrid Adler, Institute for German Language, Mannheim)

1:15-1:45: Lunch

1:45-2:45:
Round table: Translating Research into Policy - Translating Policy Needs into
Research (with representatives from the European Federation of National
Institutes for Languages [EFNIL]): Johan Van Hoorde, Nederlandse Taalunie,
EFNIL President; Prof. Dr. Ludwig Eichinger, former Director of the Institute
for the German Language (IDS) in Mannheim; Dr. Júlia Vrábľová, L. Štúr
Institute for Linguistics, Slovakia)

2:45-3:45:
Language standards, plurilingual repertoires and the Common European Framework
of Reference for Languages (CEFR) (Brian North, Equals)

3:45-4:15: Tea and coffee break

4:15-5:15:
Round table: Language teaching and testing, standards and variation, in major
and minoritized languages (panel with Ryan Joyce (International Baccalaureate
Organization), Brian North (Equals), Nick Saville (Association of Language
Testers in Europe))

7:00:
Conference Dinner, Orchard Hotel

Wednesday, April 17, 2019

9:00-9:45
Criteria setting in language curricula

9:45-10:45
Round table: Language teaching and testing, standards and variation: the case
of community languages in supplementary languages education (panel with
Pascale Vassie, National Resource Centre for Supplementary Education (NRCSE),
and others)

10:45-11:15: Tea and coffee break

11:15-12:15
Round table: Language variation in language learning classrooms (panel led by
Sascha Stollhans, German, University of Lancaster, with Weiqun Wang (Mandarin
teacher, University of Nottingham), and others)

12:15-12:45: Lunch

12:45-1:45:
Dictionaries, dictionary-making, standard, variation and the real world (panel
led by Dr Tomislav Stojanov (Institute for Croatian Language and linguistics),
with Dr Maree Airlie, Deputy Head of Language Content, Harper Collins, and
others)

1:45-2:30
Closing discussion

2:30
Departure





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