27.1479, Calls: Cog Sci, Lang Acq, Psycholing, Socioling/Tunisia

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Subject: 27.1479, Calls: Cog Sci, Lang Acq, Psycholing, Socioling/Tunisia

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Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 15:26:00
From: mongia mensia arfa [mongiaarfa at yahoo.fr]
Subject: The Interactions of Languages and Cultures in Didactics

Full Title: The Interactions of Languages and Cultures in Didactics 

Date: 03-Nov-2016 - 05-Nov-2016
Location: 14 Ibn Meja cité khadra 1003 Tunis, Tunisia 
Contact Person: Mongia Afra Mensia
Meeting Email: mongiaarfa at yahoo.fr

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Language Acquisition; Psycholinguistics; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 30-Apr-2016 

Meeting Description:

Traditional teaching methods have given way to the modern educational
approaches such as the communicative approach, the action-oriented approach
and the interactional approach that fundamentally changed both the role of the
teacher and that of the learner. Such development actually comes from the
influence of the theories of communication, language sciences
(Kerbrat-Orecchioni: 1986, 1990), psychology (Vygotsky: 1933) and sociology
(Goffman: 1973, 1974, 1987). This is why  language teaching pedagogy tends to
consider more and more the importance  of representations, interviews and
transcripts of language course sequences in  understanding the communication
situations and the waylearning takes place in interactions. The approach is
faithful to Cicurel’s theory (2011: 19) according to which the language class
is a particular social milieu in which ''learning takes place - at least in
part – through  interaction.'' This definition is rooted in the work of
Vygotsky (1933) and resumed much later by Bruner (1983). Both have signaled
the extreme importance of interaction in the construction of knowledge.

The current observation of interactions in language classes shows, for
example, that the content, purpose and functioning of  interaction are not
only about the language to learn. The language class as a socio-institutional
context generates, apart from the interactions between learners themselves,
specific interactions between two interlocutors who have neither the same
status nor the same role: expert / novice, teacher/learner, native /
non-native. With further observation, we notice that such interactions, whose
goal is the appropriation of knowledge, show, on the one hand, specific and
asymmetric roles played by the teacher (inform, facilitate, evaluate, motivate
etc.) and learners (listen, act and participate in their learning); and on the
other hand, teaching / learning situations whose functioning and objective are
both linguistic and cultural (Cicurel: 2011).
Currently, such a vision of the didactic approach is informative at many
levels since the construction of knowledge rests mainly on the close
relationship between language and culture.

This symposium incites reflection on the interactions in the didactics of
languages and cultures.

Call for Papers:

The research unit language and cultural forms organizesan international
symposium on

The Interactions of Languages and Cultures in Didactics
3, 4 and 5 November 2016
At ISLT - Tunis

This symposium incites reflection on the interactions in the didactics of
languages and cultures and the ways of transmission and acquisition of
knowledge in the following areas:

1) Theoretical Approach
a- Didactic interactions (interactional roles, conversational rules, alternate
system of turn-taking etc.)
b- Interference and obstacles (linguistic, psychological, socio-cultural etc.)
c- Educational Culture (image of the teacher, speaking contract, evaluation,
teaching models, types of activities etc.)

2) Educational interactions
a- Exchanges (verbal, non-verbal and para-verbal)
b- Status and roles (social, educational, psychosocial)
c- Teaching Act (reasons for action, planning / unplanning etc.)

3) Cultural interference
a- Teaching / learning culture (interactional rules, modes of transmission,
representations of the educational scene, activitiesetc.)
b- Culture of the native language / culture of the foreign language (the
language system; phonetic syntactic, lexical etc.)
c- Learners’ Cultures (language, stereotypes, norms, values, habits,
traditions etc.)

Candidates are requested to complete the entry form and send a summary of
their proposal (300 words) with key words to the email address of the
symposium languesetformesculturellesislt at gmail.com and before 30 April 2016.

Important Dates:
- Submitting 
- Response of the reading committee: 30 June, 2016
- Submitting papers: 30 September, 2016

Participation form
Name & surname:
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Speciality:
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Grade:
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Institution:
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Personal address:
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Telephone number ……………..... mobile phone: ........................... fax
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Email:
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Presentation Title:
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Language of Presentation: English ….......…... French ………..... Arabic………..
Abstract (300 words):

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