[lg policy] Language in Africa SIG Annual Conference May 10th 2019 - 2nd call for papers
Colin Reilly (student)
c.reilly.1 at research.gla.ac.uk
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British Association for Applied Linguistics
Language in Africa Special Interest Group LiA SIG
Annual Conference: Friday May 10th 2019, 10am – 5.30pm
Venue: School of Languages and Applied Linguistics,
University of Portsmouth
'Language and Decolonisation in 21st Century Africa’
Plenary speaker: Professor Rosemary Wildsmith-Cromarty
Professor Wildsmith-Cromarty is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
ABSTRACTS of up to 250 words for 20 minute presentations are now invited, to be sent to Goodith White, Convenor, at: anne.goodithwhite at ucd.ie, cc c.reilly.1 at research.gla.ac.uk no later than February 15th 2019. We also invite proposals for posters. As in previous years, it may be possible for a small number of people to deliver their papers via Skype from Africa.
Language and decolonisation in 21st century Africa
The 2019 LiA meeting aims to bring together researchers to present and discuss current research on the role of language – at the levels of policy, planning, education, social practice and literature – in the long and complex process of cultural decolonisation in the African continent.
The primary objective of the meeting is to explore what current research has to say on how languages in Africa are faring in the 21st century within the ongoing process of cultural decolonisation, as it is pulled by the competing forces of national identity, social equality, ethnic neutrality and globalisation. Topics for papers could consider (among other things):
* What are the latest policy developments with regard to the tensions between former imperial languages and local languages in different African countries?
* What are the issues and challenges in the adoption of local or global languages in education and academic research?
* How do different languages co-exist in daily social practices, including digital communication?
* How are languages used at work?
* How has the debate evolved for the creation of literature, songs and films?
REGISTRATION: Please register by April 22nd 2019 so that we can make a final order for catering for the day. This is included in the attendance fee. We particularly welcome postgraduate students.
Attendance Fee:
BAAL members £27 (non-members £37)
BAAL student members £20 (other students £22)
Registration forms are available from the LIASIG website<https://liasig.wordpress.com/annual-conference-2019/>. Enquiries to: Colin Reilly c.reilly.1 at research.gla.ac.uk
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Colin Reilly
Secretary
Language in Africa, Special Interest Group
British Association for Applied Linguistics
@colinfreilly
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- Previous message (by thread): [lg policy] Distinguishing Internationalization from Anglicization in Higher Education Diagnosis and Strategies François Grin University of Geneva Paper presented at the Ethical Forum of the University Foundation Brussels, Thursday 6 December 2018 (c) François Grin, Genève, Goals and “take-away” of this presentation This talk starts out from the observation that universities in historically non-English-speaking countries (NESC) are subjected, in the name of globalization, to extreme pressures resulting in anglicization. It then proposes a critical discussion of the causes of this trend. They reflect diverging sectoral interests and, at the same time, proceed from structural constraints. Making a distinction between both types of causes can be useful in order to formulate principles for a non- uniformising language policy in Higher Education (HE). Three policy measures in this direction are proposed at the end of this talk. 2 Five basic observations about HE in NESC Five basic o
- Next message (by thread): [lg policy] U of T newsFOLLOW U OF T NEWS Latest News Series Find a Story The Bulletin Brief U of T Magazine Contact U of T News Blue Book Media Room Sign language needs policy protection in Ghana: U of T expert Andrew Foster with students from the boarding school for deaf children in 1961 Andrew Foster with students from the boarding school for deaf children at Mampong-Akwapim, Ghana, about 1961 (courtesy of Gallaudet University Archives) In 1957, when Ghana gained independence from British colonial rule, African-American educator Andrew Foster established the first school for the Deaf in Ghana. In so doing, Foster consolidated and echoed Kwame’s Nkrumah’s independence day declaration of freedom for Ghanaians. While Nkrumah championed African independence movements across the continent, Foster, a graduate of Gallaudet University in Washington, is the man who modelled equal education opportunities in Ghana. Andrew Foster (centre), with his two most successful proteges: Seth Tetteh-O
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