28.1486, Calls: Applied Ling, Socioling/France

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LINGUIST List: Vol-28-1486. Fri Mar 24 2017. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 28.1486, Calls: Applied Ling, Socioling/France

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Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 10:28:25
From: Anne-Marie Barrault-Methy [ambmethy at ambmethy.net]
Subject: Transferring University Language Policy

Full Title: Transferring University Language Policy 
Short Title: TULP 

Date: 03-Nov-2017 - 03-Nov-2017
Location: Poitiers, France 
Contact Person: Anne-Marie Barrault-Methy
Meeting Email: ambmethy at ambmethy.net
Web Site: https://tulp.sciencesconf.org 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 30-Jun-2017 

Meeting Description:

The internationalisation of universities is a burning issue.

The number of international students have increased while the social
responsibility of universities at regional, national and supranational level
is being questioned.

Universities have thus adopted various language policies, sometimes implicit,
sometimes explicit. This has allowed such universities to organise language
learning and define the place of local, national and international languages
in relation with one another, particularly with English in teaching, mobility,
research and to deal with non-faculty staff.

This one-day conference will observe how university language policies are
born, circulate, transform and inform each other.

Universities worldwide have become more international in the past decades,
with more linguistic diversity on campuses and in classrooms. In Europe, such
supranational organisations as the Council of Europe and the European Union
have been accompanying the increase of transnational exchanges in the academic
world by publishing the CERFL, creating the ECML, setting up various
programmes, and by co-funding consortia initiatives. Not only have such
policies been implemented differently across the countries of Europe depending
on higher education policies and traditions, but the CERFL’s influence has
also extended well beyond Europe, in America as well as in the Asia-Pacific
region, as shown by Byram & Parmenter (2012). 

Numerous stakeholders play a part in university language policy: students and
student organisations, teachers, universities themselves, the army, legal
institutions, local governments, activist groups, language management agencies
and academies, so that policy change may occur as a result of bottom-up
implementation as well as top-down. This blurs the difference between policy
and practice. Transfer may thus occur between two or more stakeholders,
whether institutions or even individual teachers as those can “formally (in
the form of policy text creation) and informally (at the classroom level)
appropriate policy in creative and unpredictable ways” (Johnson 2013:55).  

References:

Byram, M., Parmenter, L. 2012. The Common European Framework of Reference. The
Globalisation of Language Education Policy. Bristol, Buffalo, Toronto:
Multilingual Matters. 

Johnson, D.C. 2013. Language Policy. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan.

Call for Papers: 

This one-day conference will explore how university language policies transfer
from one geographic area to another, from one stakeholder to another, in the
context of the globalisation of higher education.

Contributions are welcome on the following issues: 

- Theoretical approaches to university language policy transfer 
- Relationships between Europeanisation, globalisation and
internationalisation of the multilingual and multicultural learning space; the
dynamics of such notions 
- Qualitative and quantitative analysis of university language policy transfer
- Influence of the CERFL and other Council of Europe instruments on language
education in the Anglophone world, particularly in Africa and Asia 
- Influence of state traditions on academic language practices 
- Role of individuals, and of institutions, in language policy transfer 
- Impact of university language policies on other stakeholders
- Impact on academia of language policies carried out by the army,
particularly regarding digitalisation, and by legal institutions, companies
and other stakeholders
- Contrarianism and resistance to the globalisation of university language
policy in Anglophone and non-Anglophone countries

Please send 400-word proposals to univ.lpt at gmail.com by 30 June 2017. The
abstract should include a short bio-bibliographical note with the affiliation
of the speaker, as well as a contact email address.

Deadline for submitting a proposal: 30 June 2017

Contact: univ.lpt at gmail.com

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