CFP: Anthropology, interculturality and language learning and teaching

[Francis Hult]

http://users.utu.fi/freder/anthropo/Englishs.htm

 

Anthropology, interculturality and language learning and teaching

 

Organised by:

Maison des Sciences de l'Homme Paris Nord

 

Bilingual conference (French/English)

December 4-6 2008, Paris, France

 

The purpose of this bilingual conference is to examine the miscellaneous ways of using such a complex discipline as anthropology and its methods in language learning and teaching and to gather some of the leading specialists interested in these methods. The conference has its roots in a cooperative project on cyberanthropology between the Universities of Paris 8 and Turku, Finland (ACoNte, MSH Paris Nord) and in dramatic developments in the use of anthropology witnessed in language learning and teaching in the past few years.

 

Papers should address research questions, including but not limited to the following topics:

 

Types of anthropological methods (interview, active/ peripheral (participation-) observation...) and complementary methods of analysis (semiotics, discourse analysis) used;

 

The teaching and learning of these approaches/methods in language learning and teaching;

 

Contexts/fields in which the approaches/methods are used (far, near, places, non-places...);

- The role and contribution of new technologies in the use of anthropology (fields: Second Life, pod-/videocasting; collection tools: digital cameras, digital voice recorders...); 

- Impacts of these methods on learners and teaching staff in the long run;

- Language and intercultural autonomous learning and anthropology;

- Issues raised by the use of anthropological methods in language learning and teaching. For teaching staff? Learners? Observed individuals ? (generalisations, ethical problems, face loss...) :

- Establishment of links between e.g. participation-observation and results;

- Learning objectives in terms of intercultural, plurlingual, pragmatic, linguistic, academic competences) and their integration/progression in curricula;

- Assessment. 

 

The topic of training teaching staff for these methods can also be discussed.

 

Invited speakers:

 

Martine Abdallah-Pretceille, Professor, Universities of Paris 3 & Paris 8, France

Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Professor of social anthropology, University of Oslo (Norway) and Vrije Universiteit d'Amsterdam (The Netherlands);

Shirley Jordan, Reader in French, Queen Mary, University of London, Great-Britain.

 

Submissions in English or in French are invited in the following categories:

 

(1) Research papers (20 minutes + 15 minutes for questions)

These papers should document established results and/or present theoretical reflections.


(2) Presentations on work in progress (20 minutes + 10 minutes for questions and comments from audience)

These papers may address issues still being worked upon.




The author(s) should submit one 300-word abstract by e-mail (freder at utu.fi and bearfrac at yahoo.com) by 15 May 2008. The abstract should include: 

- the name, institution phone numbers, and e-mail addresses of each author; 
- the title; 

- objectives or purposes; 
- perspective(s) or theoretical framework; 
- methods, techniques, or modes of inquiry; 
- data sources or evidence; 
- (results and/or conclusions/point of view)




Abstracts will be reviewed by the scientific committee for originality, significance, clarity and academic rigour. Links with theory must be explicit.

Authors are requested to submit their papers before the conference (November 15 2008). A publication of the proceedings with refereed status will follow the conference. 

 

Important dates: 

Abstract Submissions: 15 May 2008 

Registration from 1 April 2008 

Paper submissions: 15 November 2008 

Conference: 4-6 December 2008 

 

Scientific committee:

     

Martine Abdallah-Pretceille, Université de Paris 3 & 8, France 

Marie-José Barbot, Université de Lille 3, France 

Michael Byram, University of Durham, Great-Britain

Fred Dervin, Département d'études françaises, Université de Turku, Finlande

Béatrice Fracchiolla, Université de Paris 8, France

Gilberte Furstenberg, MIT, USA

Esmeralda Lopes Rosa, Department of English, University of the Algarve, Portugal

 

 

Contacts (organisers):

Fred Dervin, Senior lecturer, Juslenia, 20014 University of Turku, Finland ; tel : +358 2 3336041, fax : +358 2 3336560, e-mail : freder at utu.fi 

Béatrice Fracchiolla, Associate Professor, Département de ComFle, Université de Paris 8, 2 Rue de la Liberté, 93200 Saint-Denis, France, Tel : +33678140072, bearfrac at yahoo.com 

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