31.285, Confs: Chinese, Mandarin;English;Spanish; Applied Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Translation/Spain

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Subject: 31.285, Confs: Chinese, Mandarin;English;Spanish; Applied Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Translation/Spain

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Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 10:31:09
From: Mireia Vargas-Urpí [mireia.vargas at uab.cat]
Subject: 1st International Conference on Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language and Translation between Chinese and Spanish/Catalan

1st International Conference on Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language and Translation between Chinese and Spanish/Catalan 

Date: 13-Jul-2020 - 13-Jul-2020 
Location: UAB Campus (Bellaterra), Spain 
Contact: Sara Rovira Esteva 
Contact Email: gr.txicc at uab.cat 
Meeting URL: http://grupsderecerca.uab.cat/txicc/en/node/264 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Translation 

Subject Language(s): Chinese, Mandarin (cmn)
                     English (eng)
                     Spanish (spa)

Meeting Description: 

The growing interest and offer of studies in Chinese language and Translation
from Chinese in Spain, in particular, and in the rest of the world, in
general, have not always been followed by teacher training or an improvement
in teaching quality. Based on the belief that research can and should be an
incentive for better teaching, TXICC research group believes that the time has
come to look back at the past, analyse the present and consider where we
should lead to in the near future. It is in this context that we launch a call
for papers for the 1st International Conference on Teaching Chinese as a
Second Language and Translation between Chinese and Spanish/Catalan. It aims
at becoming a forum for debate, reflection and exchange of experiences and
research results that can ultimately contribute to an improvement of teaching
quality and professional practice.

The teaching of Chinese at the UAB began in the academic year 1988-89, so our
university has more than 30 years of history and experience of teaching
Chinese, first within the framework of Translation and Interpreting Studies
and, later (since 2000-2001) also in the context of East Asian Studies. For
more than three decades, the offer of undergraduate, master and doctoral
studies in relation to translation and Chinese didactics has increased along
with the growing social interest and demand. Teaching experience and practice
have been supported since 2007 by the presence of the Research Group on
Chinese into Spanish and Catalan Translation (TXICC), whose lines of research
cover both the teaching of Chinese and its translation and, thanks to its
intense research activity in the form of publications and conference
contributions, has become a benchmark of Sinology in Spain. With the
constitution of the Barcelona Confucius Institute Foundation (FICB) in 2010,
of which the UAB is a board member, studies and research in this area have
experienced a new and decisive impulse. In short, over the last few years,
both teaching and research related to Chinese have increased and consolidated
at the UAB, making this university become a key actor of this language in
Spain.

Call for Papers: 

The organizing committee launches a call to send contributions in one of the
following topics (but not limited to these):

    -Translation and interpreting between Chinese and Spanish / Catalan
    -Contrastive linguistics between Chinese and Spanish / Catalan
    -Teaching Chinese as a foreign language, with a special interest in the
case of Spanish speakers
    -Teaching Chinese for specific purposes or given students’ profiles

Abstracts can be submitted via:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdwvBScT3u85FeQ86_d5B2TgHgTfP1rto_blQ
nLSFdPqYcvfQ/viewform

The languages of the conference will be Spanish, Chinese and English. The
conference will be held at the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting of the
Autonomous University of Barcelona. For more information about how to get
there, please consult the university's webpage.

Important dates:

2/29/2020 Deadline for the submission of abstracts
3/31/2020 Notification of accepted proposals
4/15/2020 Deadline for registration in the conference (for speakers)
4/30/2020 Publication of the conference programme
5/15/2020 Deadline for registration in the conference (for the rest of
participants with no presentation)
7/13/2020 Conference

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