[lg policy] [Languse] conference, CfP: Usage based perspectives on second language learning

[Harold Schiffman]

First Call for Papers

Thinking, doing, learning: Usage based perspectives on second language
learning, organized by The Second Language Research Center (SELC –
www.selc.dk<http://www.selc.dk/conference/>), will take place April
24-26, 2013, at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense, Denmark.



The field of second language (L2) learning research has come to
sustain a multitude of perspectives on language and learning but also
on broader issues such as the crossing points between sociality, the
nature of human interaction, and individual cognition. Along with this
great theoretical, methodological and empirical variety comes an
expansion of what is traditionally thought of as the core of language
and the nature of learning. This conference brings together
perspectives that find mutual kinship in a view of language as an
embodied, semiotic, symbolic tool used for communicative and
interactional purposes and an understanding of language use as the
preeminent condition for language learning – perspectives that we
conjoin under the umbrella term of usage based perspectives.



Such perspectives yield a wide variety of questions to be answered –
from societal issues of what it means to interact in an L2 to how
speakers carry out social, sense-making moment-to-moment activities,
and from the environments of language use and learning to the nature
of the sediments of these usage events that are left as “acquired
linguistic constructions” in the individual language learner.



The conference will promote and advance this multitude of theoretical
and methodological perspectives in second language learning research.
We therefore invite conference contributions that draw on theories and
methods from across the spectrum of usage based language learning
research, including data-driven and theory driven empirical
investigations of the relation between cognition, context, interaction
and language learning.

Confirmed keynote speakers:

Nick C. Ellis, University of Michigan

Brian MacWhinney, Carnegie Mellon University

Lourdes Ortega, University of Hawaii

Johannes Wagner, University of Southern Denmark



We invite the submission of abstracts (for paper or poster
presentations) addressing issues in second language learning research,
including but not limited to:

 *   Usage-based linguistics in language learning
 *   Embodiment and language learning
 *   Construction-based language learning, including the role of
formulaic sequences and frequency issues
 *   Dynamic Systems / Chaos-Complexity-based language learning
 *   Linguistic relativity and language learning
 *   Thinking-for-speaking and SLA
 *   Socio-cognitive language learning
 *   Socio-cultural language learning
 *   Ecological language learning
 *   Language socialization
 *   Conversation Analysis in language learning
 *   Language learning as social activity

Talks will be allocated 20 minutes, plus 10 minutes for question.
Posters will be put up on the first day of the conference and remain
up for the duration of the conference. The language of the conference
is English.

Abstracts of no more than 300 words (excluding references) should be
submitted via e-mail to selc at sitkom.sdu.dk<mailto:selc at sitkom.sdu.dk>.
Please indicate whether you would like to present a poster or a paper,
and include the following information in the main body of your e-mail:
author’s name, affiliation, e-mail address for correspondence, title
of talk, and 3-5 keywords.



All abstracts will be subject to double-blind peer review by an
international Scientific Committee. The deadline for abstract
submission is September 1, 2012. Notification of acceptance will be
given by November 1, 2012.

For further information, contact SELC via
www.selc.dk<http://www.selc.dk/conference/> or by using the email
address below.



On behalf of the organizers,

Søren W Eskildsen

swe at sitkom.sdu.dk<mailto:swe at sitkom.sdu.dk>



Søren Wind Eskildsen, Postdoc
Institut for Fagsprog, Kommunikation og Informationsvidenskab
Syddansk Universitet
Engstien 1, 6000 Kolding
swe at sitkom.sdu.dk<mailto:swe at sitkom.sdu.dk>


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