28.4029, Calls: Applied Ling/Morocco

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Subject: 28.4029, Calls: Applied Ling/Morocco

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Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2017 11:10:50
From: Amine Amzil [amine.amzil at gmail.com]
Subject: First Colloquium on Language Contact in Education: Theory and Pedagogy

 
Full Title: First Colloquium on Language Contact in Education: Theory and Pedagogy 
Short Title: LCETP 

Date: 27-Feb-2018 - 28-Feb-2018
Location: Faculte des Sciences de l'Education - Rabat, Morocco 
Contact Person: Amine Amzil
Meeting Email: amzil.fse at gmail.com

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 30-Dec-2017 

Meeting Description:

Multilingualism characterizes a large number of societies over the world. In
many of these societies, multilingualism affects also the area of education,
and many learners around the world are forced to deal with more than one
language, not only as school subjects, but also as means of instruction. North
African countries are among such societies, where learners come to school with
a vernacular mother tongue that has no special status in the educational
system. It is only in the classroom that the languages of teaching and
learning are introduced, sometimes one after another and sometimes
simultaneously. In most of the North African societies, some school subjects
are taught in Standard Arabic and others in French; and some of those that are
taught in Standard Arabic up to the level of high school shift to French in
higher education. Besides, an international language such as English or
Spanish is also required if a student intends to pursue graduate studies or to
make a career in business or tourism.

In such situations, a number of research problems are often raised. From a
psycholinguistic perspective, language contact in the mind of the learner
raises a host of issues, some of which have become classic issues in the area
of bi/multilingualism. These, on their part, have repercussions on language
learning and language education. From a sociolinguistic perspective, languages
in contact do not usually have similar statuses, but rather differ depending
on their symbolic capital. It is very likely that the sociolinguistic status
of each language will also have some bearing on the way it will be acquired
and used.

Venue: 
Faculté des Sciences de l’Education – Rabat 

Keynote speakers:   
- Mark Allen Dressman (College of Education – University of Illinois)  
- Lourdes Ortega (Georgetown University)  


Call for Papers:

Given the complexity of the linguistic issues in multilingual societies, we
invite researchers to approach these issues from a multidisciplinary
perspective in an attempt to highlight new aspects of multilingualism in
education. 

Researchers are particularly invited to propose a 20-minute presentation in
English or French on original research in the following (but not limited to
these) areas: 
- Psycholinguistic aspects of multilingualism 
- Sociolinguistic aspects of multilingualism 
- Language teaching and learning 
- Language policy 

Although the focus will be on the situation in North Africa, studies of
similar situations will also be welcome. Abstracts should be uploaded in the
following link: https://linguistlist.org/easyabs/LCETP2018. For reasons of
objectivity and fairness, abstracts should not bear author names.  

Important dates:  
Deadline for abstract submission: December 30, 2017 
Notification of acceptance: January 20 , 2018 
Conference: February 27 -28 , 2018  
Participants will be charged fees as follows: 
Faculty: 80 American dollars (equivalent of 800 Moroccan dirhams) 
Students: 40 American dollars (equivalent of 400 Moroccan dirhams)  

These fees will cover the expenses of two lunches and four coffee breaks
during the two conference days.




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