23.1988, Calls: Socioling, Applied Ling, Language Acquisition/Belgium

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Subject: 23.1988, Calls: Socioling, Applied Ling, Language Acquisition/Belgium

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Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 11:54:53
From: Ilona Truyts [Ilona.truyts at ugent.be]
Subject: Conference on Urban Multilingualism & Education

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Full Title: Conference on Urban Multilingualism & Education 
Short Title: UME 

Date: 07-Mar-2013 - 08-Mar-2013
Location: Ghent, Belgium 
Contact Person: Ilona Truyts
Meeting Email: info at smo-ume.org
Web Site: http://www.smo-ume.org/node/1 

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

Call Deadline: 30-Sep-2012 

Meeting Description:

It is our pleasure to announce the International Conference on Urban Multilingualism and Education (UME). This scientific conference will take place in Ghent, Belgium on 7-8 March 2013. 

The 5 central themes of the Urban Multilingualism & Education conference are (the list is not exhaustive):

Codeswitching, translanguaging and multilingual resources in classrooms
Language assessment in a multilingual environment
Education and language learning in a globalized world
L1-Ln acquisition in context
Multilingual pedagogies and mediation strategies 

Call for Papers:

The UME Organising Committee welcomes papers related to the conference theme 'Urban Multilingualism and Education'. The official conference language will be English. Two categories of proposal will be considered: (i) individual papers, (ii) thematic panels.

Papers and thematic panels are submitted for a specific strand:

Codeswitching, translanguaging, and multilingual resources in classrooms
Language assessment in a multilingual environment
Education and language learning in a globalised world
L1-Ln acquisition in context
Multilingual pedagogies and mediation strategies

Each author may submit one individual abstract and one co-authored abstract. Abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by the UME Scientific Committee and will be evaluated in terms of their relevance to the theme of the conference and/or their theoretical background and research design.

For more information: http://www.smo-ume.org/conference/cfp






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