31.837, Calls: Applied Linguistics, Language Acquisition/United Kingdom

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Subject: 31.837, Calls: Applied Linguistics, Language Acquisition/United Kingdom

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Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2020 16:24:41
From: Clementine Force-Izzard [c.force-izzard at exeter.ac.uk]
Subject: 2nd Conference on Intercultural Competence and Foreign Language Learning in Higher Education: Present and Future Directions

 
Full Title: 2nd Conference on Intercultural Competence and Foreign Language Learning in Higher Education: Present and Future Directions 

Date: 03-Jul-2020 - 03-Jul-2020
Location: Department of Modern Languages and Cultures and Language Centre, Streatham Campu, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Sonia Cunico
Meeting Email: s.cunico at exeter.ac.uk

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisition 

Call Deadline: 15-Mar-2020 

Meeting Description:

Intercultural competence (IC) can be defined very broadly as a wide range of
cognitive, affective, and behavioural skills that lead to effective and
appropriate communication and interaction with people of other cultures.
Following the success of the 2019 Intercultural Competence Conference at the
University of Cambridge under the AULC Special Interest Group on
interculturality, the University of Exeter is hosting a one-day symposium to
bring together researchers, professionals and practitioners working in the
area of intercultural competence in the teaching and learning of foreign
languages in Higher Education.

According to Byram et al. (2001: 5) intercultural competence is the ‘ability
to interact with ‘others’, to accept other perspectives and perceptions of the
world, to mediate between different perspectives, to be conscious of
difference’. While intercultural competence is essential in our increasingly
global and connected world, language learners are in an ideal position to
engage with cultural diversity since they experience and reflect on how,
through language, communities engage in different social practices grounded in
their own values and beliefs and make sense of and construct the world they
live in. Languaging (Phipps and Gonzalez, 2004) is a social process
inextricably interwoven with the mechanisms to make sense, through language
use, of ‘the supercomplex variety of human experience’ (Bennett, 2000). This
process also allows the foreign language learner to better understand their
own culture and identity. Although the centrality of the development of
intercultural competence in language learning makes Modern Language programmes
and Language Centres pivotal sites of intercultural expertise there is now a
need to articulate more clearly and explicitly its richness and value, the
contribution it can make to the Internationalisation and Global Citizenship
agenda in HE, and its future direction.


Call for Papers: 

The themes of this conference are intentionally broad so as to encourage the
sharing of expertise and ideas. We welcome presentations of both
research-based papers and practical case studies in the following areas:  
 - Innovative approaches to the teaching of intercultural competence in
language teaching, including the Year Abroad, with specific focus on syllabus
design, developing resources, marking criteria and testing, as well as
extra-curricular activities; 
 - Intercultural competence and the decolonisation of the language syllabus;
 - Key roles of Modern Languages Departments and Foreign Language Centres in
the Internationalisation and Global Citizenship agenda in HE;
 - Intercultural competence training of language teachers within a
non-essentialist  approach to culture.
 - Intercultural competence training outside the classroom, to staff across
the University, and to the private/public sector.

Abstracts are invited for a 20-minute presentation/workshop, followed by a
10-minute discussion. The abstract with title should be sent in a
single-spaced word document of up to 300 words as an email attachment to:
flc-resource at exeter.ac.uk

The email should include the name, contact details and institutional
affiliation of the presenter(s).

For further information on the conference, please contact Professor Sonia
Cunico, Director of Language Teaching: S.Cunico at exeter.ac.uk

The conference is hosted by the University of Exeter. It is organised by a
cross-universities team (University of Exeter, Durham University, University
of Cambridge) and supported by UCML (University Council of Modern Languages)
and AULC (Association of University Language Communities in the UK and
Ireland).




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