CFP: Heritage Languages--The Road Less Travelled

[Francis Hult]

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The Road Less Travelled

Date: 26-Oct-2012 - 27-Oct-2012
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Contact Person: Olivia Marasco
Meeting Email: < click here to access email >
Web Site: http://individual.utoronto.ca/perezleroux/site/roadlesstravelled.html

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; General Linguistics;
Language Acquisition; Psycholinguistics; Sociolinguistics

Call Deadline: 15-May-2012

Meeting Description:

Heritage languages are the ancestral languages of speakers immersed in
a dominant language environment. This international interdisciplinary
conference on heritage languages and heritage language acquisition
consists of plenaries and short format presentations treating current
research on the following topics: heritage language sociolinguistics,
psycholinguistics, acquisition, linguistic analysis, and education.
Additional events include sessions on students' language histories,
and a conversation with Toronto writers Ricardo Sternberg and Martha
Batiz, Poets in exile: The language I write in.

Invited Speakers and Topics:

Terry Au, University of Hong Kong - Access to Childhood Language Memory
Nancy Hornberger, University of Pennsylvania - Heritage Languages in Education
Naomi Nagy, University of Toronto - Sociolinguistics of Heritage Languages
Maria Polinsky, Harvard University - Attrition in Heritage Languages
Thomas Ricento, University of Calgary - Language Policy
Carmen Silva-Corvalán, University of Southern California - Language
Acquisition in Heritage Contexts

Call for Papers:

Presentation format: poster sessions and Pecha Kucha* presentations

Abstracts: Max. 1 page (12 pt. font)

Email and website: heritage.conf.2012gmail.com;
http://individual.utoronto.ca/perezleroux/site/roadlesstravelled.html

Please submit an anonymous abstract and include the following
information in the body of your email: 1) author's name, contact, and
affiliation, 2) title of presentation, 3) preferred format of
presentation (poster, Pecha Kucha or either)

*Pecha Kucha is a fixed presentation format in which 20 slides are
shown for 20 seconds each for a total of 6 minutes and 40 seconds. All
presenters must follow the time limit. We ask that all accepted
presenters submit a draft of their Pecha Kucha slides by the end of
August. For more information on Pecha Kucha please consult the
following websites:

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/magazine/15-09/st_pechakucha
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NZOt6BkhUg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fils7clg6iU&feature=related

http://linguistlist.org/issues/23/23-2116.html



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