28.4761, Calls: Applied Linguistics/Canada

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Subject: 28.4761, Calls: Applied Linguistics/Canada

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Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 10:08:26
From: Beau Zuercher [zuercher.beau_ryan at uqam.ca]
Subject: 7th Meeting on Language Teaching

 
Full Title: 7th Meeting on Language Teaching 
Short Title: MeLT 2018 

Date: 24-May-2018 - 25-May-2018
Location: Montréal, Québec, Canada 
Contact Person: Beau Zuercher
Meeting Email: melt at uqam.ca

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Feb-2018 

Meeting Description:

The Meeting on Language Teaching (MeLT) is an annual conference organized by
the École de langues (https://langues.uqam.ca/) at the Université du Québec à
Montréal (UQAM : http://www.uqam.ca/). The theme of our seventh edition
focuses on the role of culture in the teaching and learning of languages.

The current global context is marked by broad social changes and increased
prominence of culture-related issues. Hence, questions regarding teaching and
appropriating cultural knowledge, as well as developing cultural and/or
intercultural competence occupy an important position in current language
teaching research. These questions pose numerous challenges for applied
linguists, teachers and learners, including the problem of how to define
culture itself.  What transformations is research on the teaching and learning
of languages currently confronted with? What are the components and objectives
of (inter-) cultural competence? How can this competence be operationalized,
and how does it interface with linguistic, pragmatic and communicative
competence? How can language teaching be adapted to increasingly diverse
societies? What role should various institutions play in a culture’s
legitimization, and how does this legitimization take place?

In addition to these questions, language teachers and researchers inevitably
face the challenge of transforming that knowledge into curriculum content. 
Worthy of attention are the problems of the legitimacy of knowledge to be
taught, the learner’s relation to the target culture and, more broadly, the
selection of culture-related content. For example, can elements such as the
classic novel, slam poetry, popular music and humour be addressed side by side
in the language classroom?

Research topics that would contribute to this inquiry include, but are not
limited to: 

- Social representations of languages and cultures
- Culture courses: goals, theory and methodology
- Means and products of expression (literature, visual arts, music, film,
media content, humour, non-verbal communication, rhetorical patterns,
metaphor, etc.) in the teaching and learning of languages
- Cultural and/or intercultural competence
- The place of culture in the curriculum
- Contexts and contextualization in language teaching: choice of knowledge,
tools and teaching approaches
- Diversity, multiculturalism and interculturalism
- Social transformations: challenges for language teaching and learning


Call for Papers:

MeLT  2018
The 7th annual Meeting on Language Teaching
(May 24-25, 2018)
Culture in the teaching and learning of languages: reflections, changes and
challenges

MeLT 2018 will focus on post-secondary language learners. We encourage the
submission of proposals from researchers and teachers of all second or foreign
languages who focus on questions relating to culture.

Proposals must be sent to the address melt at uqam.ca.

Format of proposals:

- 500 words (excluding the bibliography) (font: Times New Roman 12) 
- In English, French or Spanish
- Two versions in PDF format: one anonymous and the other indicating the
authors’ name(s), affiliation(s) and contact information

Format of presentations:

- Duration: 20 min. + a 10-min. discussion period
- Language of presentation: English, French or Spanish

Important dates:

- Deadline for submission: February 1, 2018
- Notice of acceptance: Early March, 2018
- Conference dates: May 24-25, 2018

Presenters will be invited to submit an article for publication in the
conference proceedings.




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