30.368, Confs: General Linguistics, Language Acquisition/Portugal

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Subject: 30.368, Confs: General Linguistics, Language Acquisition/Portugal

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Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 04:36:43
From: María del Carmen Arau Ribeiro [maricarmen at ipg.pt]
Subject: ReCLes.pt 2019 International Conference Approaches to Teaching and Learning Languages for Specific Purposes: Building Bridges across the Classroom and the Professional World

 
ReCLes.pt 2019 International Conference Approaches to Teaching and Learning Languages for Specific Purposes: Building Bridges across the Classroom and the Professional World 
Short Title: ReCLes.pt2019 

Date: 03-Oct-2019 - 04-Oct-2019 
Location: Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal 
Contact: María del Carmen Arau Ribeiro 
Contact Email: maricarmen at ipg.pt 
Meeting URL: http://recles.pt/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Language Acquisition 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Meeting Description: 

Rapidly increasing internationalisation, enhanced heterogeneity and diversity
require new approaches to language, both for learning and for teaching in
higher education. The challenge of realigning the focus of language courses
and concepts to ever-changing learner profiles and new ways of learning means
that the area of Languages for Specific Purposes (LSP) has been at the centre
of significant shifts, not only in the approaches to the analysis of language
itself, but also to needs assessment, learning goals, research methodologies
and teaching methods. 

The specificities and peculiarities arising from the complexity of scientific
areas of study in higher education around the world demonstrate the
fruitfulness of this research. A number of challenges stemming from LSP
correlate with those of foreign language teaching in general while others are
more specific since learners are invested in meeting a purposeful and
practical need. Curriculum design which draws on the language features of
specific academic and professional contexts can then better support teachers
in the classroom.

Since both the learning and teaching of Languages for Specific Purposes (LSP)
in higher education merit a special forum to exchange ideas and research
findings, the ReCLes.pt 2019 International Conference aims to promote research
in these areas, particularly the pedagogical implications and the language
analysis of scientific registers of LSP in higher education.

A variety of approaches to teaching and/or learning may shed light on how to
empower learners to make full use of their (pluri)lingual experiences and
language competences. As such, contributions on the following topics are
encouraged:

- Language for Specific Purposes (LSP): Tourism and Hospitality, Business,
Language for Academic Purposes, Legal language, amongst others 
- Common/divergent paths for CLIL and LSP in HE 
- Intercultural (communicative) competences for multicultural spaces 
- Needs analysis for curriculum development, evaluation, testing and
certification  
- Learning and teaching strategies: motivation, critical perspectives,
corpus-based approaches, interdisciplinary approaches 
- Languages and employability 
- The political economy of languages

Roundtable on Gathering and Recognizing Evidence of Learning 
Moderator: María del Carmen Arau Ribeiro
- This session in English will focus on the sharing of classroom practices for
assessment. Participants should be prepared to share their classroom practices
with promoting learner involvement in their own multimodal assessment. Just
ONE slide should be sent in advance to the recles.pt2019intconf at ualg.pt with
the subject heading “Workshop: name of participant”. Maximum contributing
participants: 20. All other conference participants are welcome to sit in and
participate in the Q&A for this session.

The conference languages are Portuguese, English, French and Spanish.
 






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