35.1202, Calls: Teacher Researchers and Researcher Teachers: Bridging the Research-Practice Gap at University Language Centers

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Subject: 35.1202, Calls: Teacher Researchers and Researcher Teachers: Bridging the Research-Practice Gap at University Language Centers

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Date: 11-Apr-2024
From: Michael Ennis [mennis at unibz.it]
Subject: Teacher Researchers and Researcher Teachers: Bridging the Research-Practice Gap at University Language Centers


Full Title: Teacher Researchers and Researcher Teachers: Bridging the
Research-Practice Gap at University Language Centers

Date: 25-Oct-2024 - 25-Oct-2024
Location: Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Contact Person: Michael ENNIS
Meeting Email: LanguageCentreEvents at unibz.it

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisition

Call Deadline: 01-Jul-2024

Meeting Description:

The need for evidence-based practice and data-driven decisions in
language education has never been as urgent as it is in the 21st
Century. Yet language education, like education in general, continues
to be afflicted by a blatant gap between research and practice.

The consensus that has emerged over several decades of debate is that
we need more teacher researchers and researcher teachers working
together to bridge this gap. Teacher researchers are teachers who have
received formal training in research methodologies, and who can read
and interpret published research, engage in reflective practice, and
actively participate in communities of practice within and beyond
their own contexts and institutions. Some teacher researchers can also
conduct applied research for the purpose of exploring their
classrooms, piloting new practices, and evaluating efficacies with or
without the support of academics. Researcher teachers, on the other
hand, are academics and scholars who continue to teach language for
communicative purposes—rather than only theories and methods—and
regularly collaborate with language teachers as equals in the
knowledge creation process. Researcher teachers and teacher
researchers are natural partners in the realization of evidence-based
and data-driven language education.

The Language Centre of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano—as a
service center charged with meeting the language learning needs of a
dynamic multilingual and multicultural university community—fully
embraces evidence-based practices and data-driven decisions in
language education. We aspire to foster the development of reflective
practitioners and teacher researchers among our teaching staff, and we
welcome collaboration with researcher teachers in the realization of
our institutional objectives.

It is with our raison d'être in mind that we are organizing a full-day
international conference to bring together language teaching
practitioners who engage in reflection or research and academics who
are focused on language teaching applications. We invite proposals for
20-minute practical presentations which offer training in, tips for,
and examples of reflection and research conducted by and for language
teachers. Potential themes include, but are not limited to:
questionnaires, ethnographic methods (participant observation,
interviews, narrative inquiry, etc.), content and thematic analysis,
peer observation, learner corpora, reflective practice,
classroom-based research, action research, case studies, correlational
studies, statistics and statistical literacy, pseudo-experimental
design, needs analysis, test evaluation and item analysis,
mixed-method research, data science, learning analytics, machine
learning and artificial intelligence, program evaluation and
curriculum monitoring, literature reviews, evidence-based practice,
data-driven decision making, and research literacy.

Keynote Speakers
Carmen Argondizzo (Università della Calabria, Italy)
Thomas S.C. Farrell (Brock University, Canada)

Steering Committee: Elena Bonetto, Cristina Maria Boscolo, Michael
Joseph Ennis, Alice Siviero, Dietmar Unterkofler, and Andrew Wimhurst.

Call for Papers:

Colleagues interested in presenting should submit abstracts of no more
than 250 words (in English, German, or Italian) completing this form
by 1 July: https://eu.surveymonkey.com/r/TeacherResearch2024

All submissions will undergo double blind review.

Notifications of acceptance will be sent by 1 August.

Accepted presentations will be considered for publication in the
conference proceedings.

There are no conference fees or publication fees for this event.

Please send inquiries to LanguageCentreEvents at unibz.it.



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