32.762, Confs: Applied Ling/Online

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Subject: 32.762, Confs: Applied Ling/Online

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Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2021 13:18:40
From: Thomas Tinnefeld [fremdsprachentagung at googlemail.com]
Subject: 6th Saarbrücken International Conference on Foreign Language Teaching 2021

6th Saarbrücken International Conference on Foreign Language Teaching 2021 
Short Title: 6. SCFLT 

Date: 27-Oct-2021 - 29-Oct-2021 
Location: Online, Germany 
Contact: Thomas Tinnefeld 
Contact Email: fremdsprachentagung at googlemail.com 
Meeting URL: https://sites.google.com/view/6scflt-6sft-2021/home 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

Communication across Borders - Teaching, Learning and Speaking the Languages
of the World

Communication today may be more borderless than in any other era of human
history. Whether via apps such as Skype, WhatsApp, WeChat or LINE, whether via
blogs and Instagram – interconnectedness on a linguistic level is more diverse
today than ever before, and this development has sped up since the COVID-19
pandemic. 

On the one hand, this development has favoured a tendency towards English –
not only as a worldwide lingua franca, but oftentimes as the only language in
which people of different mother tongues communicate with each other. This
development may be due to linguistic economy, which should not be
underestimated, and which is perfectly understandable. 

At the same time, however, a feeling seems to gain ground according to which
mastering a single foreign language will lead to a certain cultural
impoverishment, which cannot be reversed once it has gone too far. 

Not surprisingly, this trend towards English has been opposed by an
inclination towards supporting and promoting languages that are perceived as
important – not instead of English, but rather in addition to it. 

In addition, there are conditions of international communication in which both
interlocutors are not native speakers or where only one of several
communication partners has learned the respective language from an early age.
The concessions to be to made in such situations oftentimes pose considerable
challenges for mutual understanding. 

On top of that, the mutual (inter)cultural expectations of international
interlocutors and their behaviour need to be considered. In this context, an
interesting question is whether we have recently seen a phase of cultural
convergence in which the different cultures are getting increasingly closer
and even levelled out; or whether the different cultures manage to keep their
own peculiarities and their own charm despite the huge impact of worldwide
communication. 

Another point is whether (and how) foreign language teaching can promote
borderless communication in classroom contexts, or whether languages can best
be learned through interaction with native speakers. This – certainly
challenging – problem needs to be faced by today's foreign language teaching. 

The aspects described above and many others that are closely related to them
are of central interest for the 6th Saarbrücken Conference on Foreign Language
Teaching. They can be listed as follows:
 - Linguistic aspects of (international) communication
 - Developing the ability to communicate internationally in and through
foreign language teaching
 - Communication-enhancing teacher-and-learner interaction
 - Communicative change – yesterday and today
 - Borderlessness and communicative change in times of the pandemic
 - Going virtual as a new form of borderlessness
 - Borderless multilingualism
 - Borderless orality and writing
 - Bilingual Lessons and CLIL
 - Communication by means of language mediation
 - Contrastive approaches for teaching and learning foreign languages
 - The role of (digital) media in international communication
 - Student and adult mobility
 - Intercultural aspects of cross-border communication
 - International aspects of languages for specific-purposes (research)
 - Autonomous forms of learning (e.g. blended learning, learning using apps)
for the acquisition of foreign languages outside the classroom
 - Language policy and borderlessness
 - Borderlessness with respect to migration
 - Language philosophy and “borderless” thinking
 - Approaches to the conference topic in different countries and their
educational institutions

The above list being an open one, these and other fields are of potential
interest in this context, and talks about all these aspects are welcome. 

Program Information: 

Due to the uncertainty arising from the pandemic, the 6th Saarbrüchen
Conference on Foreign Language Teaching will be held online. The traditional
elements of our conferences (keynotes, section talks and panel discussion)
will, however, be kept. Keynotes which will be 45 minutes long (+ 15 minutes
of Q&A), and section talks, which will have a length of 20 minutes (+ 10
minutes of Q&A).

Our book exhibition will also be included so that participants will be able to
get in touch with the partaking publishing houses and their representatives.
We will even do our best to simulate our traditional entertainment evening so
as to offer our participants a platform for networking.

Participation in the conference is free of charge. To register for the
conference, please use our online form
(https://sites.google.com/view/6scflt-6sft-2021/registration). 
A publication of selected talks given at the conference in the form of a
peer-reviewed, edited book is planned.

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