32.541, FYI: ''What’s a language, what’s a dialect?'' - Pluricentricity in teaching, online public lecture, MGU, Japan, 18 February 2021

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Subject: 32.541, FYI: ''What’s a language, what’s a dialect?'' - Pluricentricity in teaching, online public lecture, MGU, Japan, 18 February 2021

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Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2021 08:26:00
From: Cezar Constantinescu [kon at gen.meijigakuin.ac.jp]
Subject: ''What’s a language, what’s a dialect?'' - Pluricentricity in teaching, online public lecture, MGU, Japan, 18 February 2021

 
The Center for Liberal Arts, Meiji Gakuin University (Tokyo & Yokohama),
cordially invites you to the online public lecture

"What’s a language, what’s a dialect? Thoughts on more equitable teaching
practices"
(Pluricentricity in teaching, with special reference to German)
Dr. Stefan Dollinger, University of British Columbia

Part 1: The pre-recorded lecture will be made available to registered
participants from Feb. 11 to Feb 18 (JST)
Part 2: Live Q&A session via Zoom: Feb. 18, 2021 11:00-11:30 (JST)

What’s a language, what’s a dialect? This seemingly easy question is taken for
granted in much of language teaching. For languages that have dominant
standard varieties, teaching professionals have usually been content to teach
just those “main” varieties. The present talk starts from what are indeed
arbitrary boundaries behind the socio-political concept of “language” and the
ideologies underlying it. Using examples from European languages (German,
English, Swedish, French, Spanish), I will make the point that the inclusion,
however small, of features from a non-dominant standard variety in language
teaching would not only enrich the learning process but would add an
identity-confirming element to language teaching. This suggestion is not
intended to add to the already large scope of tasks in language teaching, but
to render, via a minor adaptation of the established method, the learning
outcomes even more relevant to the learner.

Please register here by Feb. 14 (end of day): https://bit.ly/3ryU02r

The link for the lecture and the Zoom link for the Q&A session will be sent to
registered participants only.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Historical Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                     German (deu)

Language Family(ies): Indo-European





 



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