26.4157, Calls: Applied Ling, Lang Acquisition, Pragmatics, Socioling, Typology/Spain

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Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2015 11:39:50
From: Heiko Motschenbacher [motschenbacher at em.uni-frankfurt.de]
Subject: Linguistic Dimensions of Inclusion in Language Teaching

Full Title: Linguistic Dimensions of Inclusion in Language Teaching 

Date: 15-Jun-2016 - 16-Jun-2016
Location: Murcia, Spain 
Contact Person: Heiko Motschenbacher
Meeting Email: motschenbacher at em.uni-frankfurt.de

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

Meeting Description:

In the light of the growing heterogeneity of students in our foreign language classrooms, teachers face additional challenges in terms of inclusion. Educational inclusion is based on a conceptualisation of this heterogeneity in terms of valued diversity rather than as a teaching obstacle. The proposed colloquium aims to contribute to debates on inclusion by discussing how linguistics (in its broadest sense) can contribute to making the foreign language classroom more inclusive. 

In regular classrooms, certain (groups of) learners may face linguistic or communicative barriers at various language-related levels that potentially endanger their language learning success. In the inclusive language classroom, teachers aim at individualised language teaching that caters for the needs of all students in class. To reach this goal, critical language-related research needs to study how exclusion manifests itself, for example, in relation to participation in classroom interaction, the representation of social actors in textbooks or other teaching materials, or the ignorance or negligence of specific learners’ L1 backgrounds in foreign language teaching. A central dimension of inclusive education is the role that language plays in social processes of inclusion, exclusion, normalisation and stigmatisation.

Colloquium organiser: Heiko Motschenbacher, Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Call for Papers:

Papers in this colloquium could, for example, address the following questions:

- How do linguistic or communicative barriers surface in language education (identification of exclusionary practices)?
- Do certain learner groups find it more difficult to participate in class and, as a consequence, have less success in language learning?
- Are the social groups to which learners belong adequately represented in textbooks and other teaching materials (both linguistically and non-linguistically)?
- In how far are teaching materials linguistically created to cater only for one specific group of learners that is assumed to be dominant in the classroom?  
- How can language teaching be made more inclusive (application of solution strategies)?

These questions can be explored in relation to any of the following groups of learners:

- Learners with learning difficulties, special needs or disabilities
- Learners with certain ethnic (and L1) backgrounds
- Female and male learners
- Non-heterosexually identified learners
- Young learners who grow up in non-heteronormative families
- Learners from lower socioeconomic classes
- Other potentially disadvantaged learner groups

Furthermore, these questions can be approached from a range of language-related perspectives, including work in the traditions of sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, pragmatics, (critical) discourse analysis, conversation analysis, linguistic ethnography, contrastive linguistics or language typology.

Potential contributors should send an abstract and a bio sketch to Heiko Motschenbacher (motschenbacher at em.uni-frankfurt.de) by 27 September, 2015. Selected abstracts will serve as the basis for a colloquium proposal that will be submitted to the conference organisers. Abstracts should be no longer than 500 words, excluding references. Presentations are 15 minutes long plus 5 minutes for discussion. Please see the conference website of Sociolinguistics Symposium 21 for further information: http://www.um.es/web/sociolinguistics-symposium21/

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