33.3850, FYI: Call for Chapter Proposals: The Routledge Handbook of Language Learning in the New Global Context

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Subject: 33.3850, FYI: Call for Chapter Proposals: The Routledge Handbook of Language Learning in the New Global Context

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Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2022 06:53:43
From: Chris Shei [c-c.shei at swansea.ac.uk]
Subject: Call for Chapter Proposals: The Routledge Handbook of Language Learning in the New Global Context

 
The Routledge Handbook of Language Learning in the New Global Context edited
by Chris Shei and Der-lin Chao
The world has undergone some dramatic changes since 2019, first with the
covid-19 pandemic killing more than six million people across the globe; then
with the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 causing a dire shortage
in food and energy and disruption to world economy, not to mention explicit
threats of nuclear warfare made by authoritarian leaders. Among the political
turmoil that causes life-threatening changes to people around the globe,
language is by far the most important medium through which the changes are
verbalized, conceptualized and dealt with is imperative for language teachers
and textbook writers to be keenly aware of the influence of current affairs on
language or reflected by it and design their materials and activities
accordingly. Chapter titles suggested below are hypothetical please design
your own title and content:

I. Context sensitive language learning
1. Politically responsive language teaching and learning 
2. Modifying academic language learning structure as a reaction to global
changes
3. Adaptive learning materials and learning methods
4. Media as a resource for dynamic language learning
5. Occasional language learning as a result of learning world affairs
6. Contrasting purposes, processes and results of language learning past and
present

A particular concern in the changing global environment is the increasing use
of language as a vehicle to embed ideology and political dogma in media
discourse, social networks, government propaganda, and educational materials,
especially in authoritarian states, where children learn patriotic thoughts
and acquire nationalistic sentiments from textbooks provided by the
government; whereas adults’ minds are deliberately conditioned by heavily
censored pro-government media discourse and patriotic messages. Research
efforts are sorely needed to investigate the process of how language assists
in the formation of ideology and whether it is possible to reverse the effect
of ideological imposition in the psychological constructs of individuals. One
of the missions of this handbook is to explore the relationship between
language learning and ideology and to make such findings available to the
general public and academic circles for raising awareness and encouraging
further research.

Please email an abstract of 200-300 words with proposed chapter title to Dr
Chris Shei (C-C.Shei at Swansea.ac.uk ) including your name, title and
institution. Deadline of receiving abstract in this round: 31 January 2023
 



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