32.671, FYI: Recorded Talk Available: ''What's a language, what's a dialect? Towards more equitable teaching practices''

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Subject: 32.671, FYI: Recorded Talk Available: ''What's a language, what's a dialect? Towards more equitable teaching practices''

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Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2021 05:59:51
From: Cezar Constantinescu [kon at gen.meijigakuin.ac.jp]
Subject: Recorded Talk Available: ''What's a language, what's a dialect? Towards more equitable teaching practices''

 
Those of you who missed the talk by Dr. Stefan Dollinger last week at the
Center for Liberal Arts, Meiji Gakuin University (Japan), can access and share
it now via the following link: https://www.academia.edu/video/jZpPbl

"What's a language, what's a dialect? Towards more equitable teaching
practices" (Pluricentricity in research and teaching)
Dr. Stefan Dollinger, UBC Vancouver

Abstract:
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.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Historical Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics

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

Language Family(ies): Indo-European





 



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