29.3183, Calls: Applied Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Sociolinguistics/United Kingdom

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LINGUIST List: Vol-29-3183. Wed Aug 15 2018. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 29.3183, Calls: Applied Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Sociolinguistics/United Kingdom

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Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2018 16:39:05
From: Gwennan Higham [g.e.higham at swansea.ac.uk]
Subject: Plurilingual Pathways for Integration:
 Rethinking Hosts vs. Guests in the 21st century

 
Full Title: Plurilingual Pathways for Integration:
 Rethinking Hosts vs. Guests in the 21st century 

Date: 30-Nov-2018 - 30-Nov-2018
Location: Swansea University, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Dr Gwennan Higham
Meeting Email: g.e.higham at swansea.ac.uk

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

Call Deadline: 15-Sep-2018 

Meeting Description:

Language learning, belonging and legitimacy are crosscutting, challenging and
contentious issues for migrants and hosts alike. Such challenges surrounding
language and belonging have become more poignant in light of the UK’s Brexit
vote, where public discourse has seen the emergence of increasing xenophobic
sentiments as well as growing demands on migrants to integrate into the hosts’
linguistic community. Such demands have been fuelled by Westminster’s claim
that migrants who do not learn English are not able to integrate, despite at
the same time cutting funds in the education sector and tightening citizenship
requirements (Simpson & Cooke 2018). This monolingual rhetoric nevertheless
overshadows the plurilingual nature of migrants’ experience on the ground
along with the reality of the indigenous languages of the UK, such as Welsh
and Scottish Gaelic. Linguistic integration therefore appears to be ever more
complex and confusing, consequently raising questions concerning the
relationship between hosts and guests, local and immigrant.

Confirmed plenary speakers:

Dr James Simpson, Senior Lecturer in Language Education (Leeds University)
Dr Sergei Shubin, Associate Professor of Geography (Swansea University)

Fee: This is a free event and lunch will be provided


Call for Papers:

The proceedings will be directed by key themes and objectives as follows:

- To what extent does language teaching to migrants challenge or conform to
the monolingual norm?  
- What does a plurilingual intercultural approach to language pedagogy entail?
- How can hosts and migrants reinvent languages as instruments of social
inclusion?

Please submit an abstract of no more than 350 words (including references) by
15 September 2018 to the organisers, Gwennan Higham and Nicola Bermingham at
g.e.higham at swansea.ac.uk. Contact details (name, affiliation and email
address) should be included in the body of the email together with the title. 
Please submit an abstract of no more than 350 words (including references) by
15 September 2018 to the organisers, Gwennan Higham and Nicola Bermingham at
g.e.higham at swansea.ac.uk. Contact details (name, affiliation and email
address) should be included in the body of the email together with the title.




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