33.816, Calls: Sociolinguistics/France

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Subject: 33.816, Calls: Sociolinguistics/France

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Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2022 17:09:09
From: Catherine Collin [catherine.collin at univ-nantes.fr]
Subject: L2 Exposure Conditions: Study Abroad and its Possible Effects on the Expression of Modality

 
Full Title: L2 Exposure Conditions : Study Abroad and its Possible Effects on the Expression of Modality 

Date: 09-May-2022 - 09-May-2022
Location: Nantes, France 
Contact Person: Catherine Collin
Meeting Email: Catherine.Collin at univ-nantes.fr

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-Mar-2022 

Meeting Description:

A one day seminar on Study Abroad Research

L2 Exposure Conditions : Study Abroad and its Possible Effects on the
Expression of Modality
University of Nantes

With the expansion of the Erasmus (or Erasmus +) programs over the world, an
increasing number of students spend a term or more in a foreign country as
part of their program. For this first acquisition seminar on Study Abroad in
Nantes, the focus will only be on L2 students spending a semester or two in a
target country. 
In the tradition of the acquisition of a second language, natural and
educational contexts are often distinguished, with Study Abroad considered as
the natural context due to the fact that the learners are immersed in the
target language and have unlimited access to it as opposed to the educational
contexts where the access of the target language is limited to the classroom. 

Study Abroad (SA) is generally understood as studying a language in the target
country for a limited period of time. Since the acquisition of language in a
SA setting is less clearcut than in other acquisition circumstances, we may
wonder if the acquisition of a language is still a question of following
rules. Grammatical development seems to be less beneficial during SA
especially compared to the development of other aspects like vocabulary,
sociolinguistic and pragmatic competences. 

Deeply rooted in the history of education, the academic experience enabling
students to complete part of their program outside their countries, has given
rise to numerous studies (DeKeyser, 1991; Freed, 1995, Lafford, 1995). SA has
always been assumed to provide the best conditions for language learning, and
to accelerate the learning process. But recent researches tend to question the
actual effets of SA on language and tend to revisit the general assumption
that a SA improves the learning development. A deeper approach in an attempt
to explain results shows more nuanced outcomes, particularly in the oral and
grammatical development (Collentine, 2004; Howard, 2018).


2nd Call for Papers:

Deadline Extended to March 15, 2022

This call for papers will consider measuring the effects of L2 exposure with a
special focus on measuring of L2 exposure in the case of the expression of
modality.
Can we measure the effects of L2 exposure?
Are there possible effects of studying abroad on learning the expression of
modality?

We define modality as including the following modal expressions:
- modal auxiliary verbs
- subjunctive-inducing contexts
- conditional forms
- periphrastic forms vs inflective forms of the expression of modality

We invite empirical [experimental, corpus-based] and qualitative studies
focusing on issues related to the key areas and the following questions:
- What are the effects of Study(ing) Abroad on the acquisition of modality,
compared to acquiring the L2 outside Study Abroad?
- What are the benefits and detriments of Study Abroad on modality itself?

- What is the impact of empirical studies rooted on new techniques
(eye-tracking etc.) on the study of SA?

- On the basis of the comparison of SA programs (types of courses, tasks and
assessments, the advisors' roles), can we assume that a SA program is just
like another?
- Can we measure the role of metalinguistic knowledge? Can it help us
understand the specificity of grammatical relations in the L2 compared to the
learner's L1?
Focus should be on language use and not on competences. Natural data
collection methods with examples from corpora will be preferred over
questionnaire-only research on the subject. Studies on a variety of languages
are encouraged for submission. The proposal and communication can either be in
English or in French.

Practical information:

The abstracts are to be written anonymously and in English. They are limited
to one A4 page, 12pt, Times New Roman, single spacing. The references,
figures, tables and/or the mandatory examples can appear on a second page.

They are to be submitted to catherine.collin at univ-nantes.fr before March 15,
2022.
Feedback will then be sent the following week, March 22, 2022.
Deadline for the submission: March 15, 2022.

Feedback on your submissions: March 22, 2022.
Organisation : Emmanuella Annan, Romane Pedro, Catherine Collin




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