33.1674, Calls: Anthro Ling, Applied Ling, Lang Acquisition, Socioling/France

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Subject: 33.1674, Calls: Anthro Ling, Applied Ling, Lang Acquisition, Socioling/France

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Date: Wed, 11 May 2022 05:37:04
From: Adam Wilson [adam.wilson at univ-lorraine.fr]
Subject: Dismantling Language Ideologies and Promoting Social Justice in Higher Education Second Language Teaching

Full Title: Dismantling Language Ideologies and Promoting Social Justice in Higher Education Second Language Teaching 

Date: 17-Jul-2023 - 21-Jul-2023
Location: Lyon, France 
Contact Person: Adam Wilson
Meeting Email: adam.wilson at univ-lorraine.fr
Web Site: https://aila2023.sciencesconf.org/browse/author?authorid=951871 

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

Call Deadline: 26-Jun-2022 

Meeting Description:

This symposium will form part of the AILA World Congress 2023 to be held in
Lyon (France).

The aim of this symposium is to bring together university-level L2 teachers
who mobilise conceptual, theoretical or methodological tools from
sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology or other neighbouring disciplines
with the aim of helping students fight against processes of social
discrimination. Presentations may be focused on reporting past experiences of
this type and/or on the theoretical and methodological aspects of applying
concepts from sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology in higher education
L2 teaching with the aim of empowering students and teachers.

Call for Papers:

Although certain language ideologies that sit at the heart of language
teaching – e.g. native speakerism, dominant monolingualism, standard language
ideology, essentialism, etc. – have long been called into question by a wide
range of critical work (see Lippi-Green 1997, Heller & Martin-Jones 2001,
Holliday 2006, among others), many of them remain in place today. Similarly, a
large body of research (e.g. Heller 1999, Martín Rojo 2010, Flubacher & Del
Percio 2017) has shown how choices in language education – related to course
structure, curricula, teaching practices, pedagogical materials, evaluation
design, etc. – are fundamentally underpinned by the ideological dynamics of
the social order more generally and are thus instrumental in its
(re)generation:

''They are choices about how to distribute linguistic resources and about what
value to attribute to linguistic forms and practices. They are choices that
are embedded in the economic, political, and social interests of groups and
that have consequences for the life chances of individuals as well as for the
construction of social categories and relations of power.'' (Heller &
Martin-Jones 2001: 419)

Given the rich history of critical work in sociolinguistics and linguistic
anthropology with regard to language ideologies and social order (see
Schieffelin et al. 1998, Kroskrity 2004), we might consider that, as both
social scientists of language and L2 instructors, we have room for manoeuvre
when it comes to equipping our students with tools that might help them
identify, deconstruct and, ultimately, overcome these ideologies and their
(often discriminatory) consequences. Such tools could also encourage students
to reflect more critically on their own role in the spread and (re)production
of these ideologies and their effects, contributing to further-reaching social
change. The aim of this symposium is to explore ways in which concepts and
methods from sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology could constitute
foundations for these tools of empowerment and how they might be applied in L2
language courses. In this way, whilst recognising the difficulty of fighting
against the dynamics mentioned above, we view L2 language courses as spaces in
which language ideologies might be dissected and dismantled, rather than
reproduced, and in which diversity and social cohesion might be promoted. With
this symposium, we hope to create a space for sharing experiences and ideas
with the objective of helping one another, as L2 instructors, develop courses
and teaching practices that mobilise tools from sociolinguistics and
linguistic anthropology with the aim of promoting social justice.

References
Flubacher, Mi-Cha and Alfonso Del Percio. 2017. Language, Education and
Neoliberalism. Bristol: Multilingual Matters.
Heller, Monica. 1999. Linguistic Minorities and Modernity: a Sociolinguistic
Ethnography. London; New York: Longman.
Heller, Monica, and Marilyn Martin-Jones. 2001. ‘Conclusion: Education in
Multilingual Settings: Stakes, Conditions, and Consequences’. In Voices of
Authority: Education and Linguistic Difference. Contemporary studies in
linguistics and education, 419-424. Westport, Conn: Ablex.
Holliday, Adrian. 2006. ‘Native-speakerism’. ELT Journal, 60(4), 385–387.
Kroskrity, Paul. V. 2004. ‘Language Ideologies’. In A. Duranti (Ed.), A
Companion to Linguistic Anthropology, 496–517. Malden: Wiley-Blackwell.
Lippi-Green, Rosina. 1997. English with an Accent: Language, Ideology and
Discrimination in the United States. Odense: Routledge.
Martín Rojo, Luisa. 2010. Constructing Inequality in Multilingual Classrooms.
Berlin; New York: De Gruyter Mouton.
Schieffelin, Bambi. B., Woolard, Kathryn. A., & Paul V. Kroskrity. (Eds.).
1998. Language Ideologies: Practice and Theory. Oxford: Oxford University
Press.

Submission guidelines can be found on the AILA Congress 2023 website:
https://aila2023.fr/call-for-papers/

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