30.1330, Calls: Applied Linguistics, Language Acquisition/Italy
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Subject: 30.1330, Calls: Applied Linguistics, Language Acquisition/Italy
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Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2019 06:16:13
From: Michael Joseph Ennis [mennis at unibz.it]
Subject: International Symposium on Intensive Language Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
Full Title: International Symposium on Intensive Language Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
Date: 25-Oct-2019 - 25-Oct-2019
Location: Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Contact Person: Michael Ennis
Meeting Email: LanguageCentreEvents at unibz.it
Web Site: https://www.academia.edu/38589209/Call_for_Papers_International_Symposium_on_Intensive_Language_Teaching_and_Learning_in_Higher_Education
Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisition
Call Deadline: 23-Jun-2019
Meeting Description:
The Language Centre is organizing this symposium in order to stimulate
reflection on best practice in intensive language teaching and learning, with
a particular eye to curriculum design, teaching methods, efficacy, and effects
on motivation in this and similar contexts. Are “intensive” language programs
as effective as traditional “extensive” language courses in terms of fostering
language acquisition? How and when can intensive courses best be organized?
Which pedagogical approaches are the most effective for an intensive course?
How do teachers and students perceive intensive courses in comparison to
extensive courses? The symposium aims to stimulate discussion on these and
other questions by bringing together university language instructors and
researchers in order to share and explore approaches, methods, and practices
which have emerged within diverse contexts of intensive language teaching and
learning.
Call for Papers:
International Symposium on Intensive Language Teaching and Learning in Higher
Education 25 October 2019 hosted by the Language Centre of the Free University
of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy)
In response to the internationalization of higher education, more and more
universities around the world are offering intensive language programs. Such
programs have manifold aims and models, but, in general, this modality of
language teaching and learning has grown in popularity because offering
compact, intensive courses during breaks in the academic calendar enables
students to meet language requirements and/or prepare for study in an
additional language without delaying study careers or augmenting degree course
curricula. As common as such programs are, however, there has been
comparatively little empirical research on the efficacy of or best practice in
intensive language programs.
The Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (unibz) is a trilingual university with
three official languages of instruction: Italian, German, and English.
Undergraduate students are required to reach the C1 level (according to the
CEFR) in their “first” and “second” languages and B2 in their third language
by the end of their studies, but must reach B1 in their “third” language
before the second year of study. In order to support students in meeting these
requirements, the non-credit, elective language curriculum offered by the
Language Centre alternates between intensive and extensive courses throughout
the academic year. For most students, the first encounter with unibz is a
120-hour three-week intensive course in September, before the beginning of the
first semester. An additional 160 hours of intensive instruction are offered
in February and July, during the semester breaks.
After experimenting with this model for three years, the Language Centre is
organizing this symposium in order to stimulate reflection on best practice in
intensive language teaching and learning, with a particular eye to curriculum
design, teaching methods, efficacy, and effects on motivation in this and
similar contexts. Are “intensive” language programs as effective as
traditional “extensive” language courses in terms of fostering language
acquisition? How and when can intensive courses best be organized? Which
pedagogical approaches are the most effective for an intensive course? How do
teachers and students perceive intensive courses in comparison to extensive
courses?
The symposium aims to stimulate discussion on these and other questions by
bringing together university language instructors and researchers in order to
share and explore approaches, methods, and practices which have emerged within
diverse contexts of intensive language teaching and learning.
Presenters are invited to submit proposals for 20-minute talks, poster
presentations or practical workshops on any of the following, and similar,
themes of direct relevance to teaching and learning languages in intensive
programs.
For submission information visit:
https://www.academia.edu/38589209/Call_for_Papers_International_Symposium_on_I
ntensive_Language_Teaching_and_Learning_in_Higher_Education
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