26.104, Calls: Lang Documentation, Anthropological Ling, Lang Acquisition, Applied Ling, General Ling/Australia

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Subject: 26.104, Calls: Lang Documentation, Anthropological Ling, Lang Acquisition, Applied Ling, General Ling/Australia

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Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 03:54:20
From: Jane Simpson [jane.simpson at anu.edu.au]
Subject: From Home to School: Language Practices of Indigenous Children

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Full Title: From Home to School: Language Practices of Indigenous Children 
Short Title: HSLPIC 

Date: 08-Dec-2015 - 08-Dec-2015
Location: Sydney, Australia 
Contact Person: Jane Simpson
Meeting Email: jane.simpson at anu.edu.au

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Applied Linguistics; General Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Language Documentation 

Call Deadline: 16-Feb-2015 

Meeting Description:

Indigenous languages across the world are disappearing at a rapid rate. In some cases, Indigenous children continue to learn the traditional Indigenous language as their first language, while in other communities new mixed languages, or creoles are emerging. In many of these situations, when children enter the formal education system, they will encounter for the first time the dominant language of the country. In some cases they may able to attend a bilingual school, but more usually will enter a school in which education is entirely in the dominant language. In many cases, the children do not achieve the same level of success as their peers who speak the national language and are schooled in it.

This workshop addresses the language practices of Indigenous children aged between 4 and 12 as they make transitions from home to school, and as they move from home language to mastering the dominant language of the country.

Call for Papers:

We are calling for papers on the language practices of Indigenous children aged between 4 and 12 as they make transitions from home to school, and as they move from home language to mastering the dominant language of the country. Papers could address ways in which communities manage this transition, looking for successful instances of home-to-school transition, as well as identifying obstacles to a smooth transition. Papers could focus on the interactions of children (and their teachers) in and across the four arenas of classroom, playground, home, and out-of-school activities. Examples of language practices include, but are not limited to:

- What language(s) are they using, which language(s) are they using with which interlocutors? Are they ‘trans-languaging’? 
- Do they understand what the classroom teacher is saying? What evidence do we have for this? 
- How do children adapt to the speech events and speech acts used in classrooms and playgrounds? How do they learn the appropriate ways of taking part in these? How do they learn to infer what teachers mean when they use particular speech acts, or initiate particular speech events?
- What methods can we use to establish what is happening in the children’s language practices?

We are especially interested in papers that address language practices within communities, rather than case studies of individuals.

A workshop will be held in Sydney in December 2015 for as many authors as are able to attend (not compulsory) at which the papers will be discussed and connections made between papers prior to final submission to the publisher in March 2016.

We are now calling for abstracts for this book with the following timeline:

16 February 2015: 500-word abstracts due
1 April 2015:  Notification of acceptance of abstracts
29 September 2015: Full papers (6,000 – 8,000 words) to be circulated to contributors
8 December 2015: Workshop in Sydney for contributors able to attend, followed by the Australian Linguistics Society Conference 9-11 December

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