31.1318, Calls: Spanish; Applied Ling, Lang Acquisition/Austria

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LINGUIST List: Vol-31-1318. Fri Apr 10 2020. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 31.1318, Calls: Spanish; Applied Ling, Lang Acquisition/Austria

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Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2020 22:09:34
From: Christoph Gabriel [christoph.gabriel at uni-mainz.de]
Subject: Spanish as a second and third language

 
Full Title: Spanish as a second and third language 

Date: 24-Feb-2021 - 27-Feb-2021
Location: Graz, Austria 
Contact Person: Christoph Gabriel
Meeting Email: christoph.gabriel at uni-mainz.de
Web Site: https://hispanistentag-2021.uni-graz.at/de/sektionen/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisition 

Subject Language(s): Spanish (spa)

Call Deadline: 31-Aug-2020 

Meeting Description:

Spanish is spoken as a second language by about 80 million people around the
world, for ex-ample in bilingual zones such as the Andes or Paraguay. On an
international scale, it is the fourth-most frequently learned foreign
language, after English and relatively close to French and Mandarin Chinese
(Instituto Cervantes 2019). In Germany, it is the third-most chosen foreign
language after English and French (Destatis 2019). However, for many learners
the acquisition of Spanish does not constitute the first experience with
foreign language learning, but instead they acquire it as a third (or further)
foreign language (L3). Although the analysis of learner data constitutes, at
least since the increasing popularity of Selinker’s “interlanguage” concept
(1972), a fairly established field of research in both language pedagogy and
linguistics, L3 acquisition has long been neglected in research. In the
German-speaking context, an important impetus came from the framework of
‘didactics of multilingualism’ (Meißner/Reinfried 1998, Bär 2009).

The acquisition of Spanish as an L3 in contexts of migration-induced
multilingualism, i.e. by learners who speak a heritage language in addition to
the language of environment (which is also the language used in the
educational system), is a relatively new topic (see, e.g., Gabriel/Grünke
2018). In such contexts, Spanish is not only the target language, but also the
learners’ heritage language – a situation which is nowadays quite common in
the United States (Rao 2019) and to an increasing extent also in Europe, e.g.,
in German-speaking countries (Reimann 2020).

Our workshop, which is explicitly conceived as an interdisciplinary project,
aims to explore the intersections between linguistics and didactics related to
the acquisition of Spanish in various contexts around the world. To foster the
interdisciplinary dialogue, we intend to not only attract linguists and
specialists in didactics, but also to discuss the intriguing question of how
international expertise can be fruitfully integrated in the German-speaking
context. The aim is, on the one hand, to examine the interface between basic
linguistic and applied research and, on the other, to discuss the question of
how the knowledge resulting from linguistic analyses of the structural
characteristics of Spanish L2/L3 data can be applied in concrete teaching
situations.

Digitalization plays a fundamental role in this context, not only since it
facilitates the handling of research data and the creation of learner corpora,
but also because the use of digital tools in language teaching, e.g., for
pronunciation training, can open new ways in the foreign language classroom
(Román-Mendoza 2018). 

Invited speakers (confirmed): Rajiv Rao (U Wisconsin), Wendy Elvira-García
(UNED Madrid)


Call for Papers: 

We invite contributions on L2/3 Spanish in all possible acquisition and
learning scenarios and on any linguistic level ranging from
phonetics/phonology, morphology and syntax to semantics, pragmatics, and the
lexicon. Studies addressing the interaction of different linguistic levels
such as intonation and pragmatics (Pešková 2019), i.e. so-called interface
phenomena, are particularly welcome. 

Possible topics are:
- Spanish as an L2 in speakers of autochthonous languages in areas where
Spanish is (one of) the official languages;
- Spanish as an L2 in migrants living in Spanish-speaking countries (e.g.,
Romanians in Spain, Chinese in Argentina)
- Spanish as a heritage language and the teaching of Spanish in the
corresponding context;
- Spanish as a foreign language in different non-Spanish speaking areas;
- Spanish as an L3 in settings of natural and controlled acquisition, e.g., in
the context of migration-induced multilingualism

Abstracts (max. 400 words, excluding title and references) can be submitted in
English, German or Spanish before August 31, 2020 via
https://www.conftool.net/hispanistentag-2021/.




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