Dear LANGSCAPE members and friends,
please save the date for another highly interesting conference on
“Plurilingualism, pluriculturalism and English in globalization: devices, practices and issues in the internationalization of European higher education”.
The International Congress organized by the Western Catholic University Angers (F) and the University of Nantes (F) will take place at Western Catholic University at Angers between 7th and 10th October.
For more detailed information, please refer to the bilingual paper on the congress (including a call for papers) and do not hesitate to contact us or Christiane Fäcke, member of the LANGSCAPE Publication Policy directorate, who is co-organizing this conference.
Best regards,
Claudia Schmidt
(LANGSCAPE Coordination Team)
Dear LANGSCAPE members and friends,
we are pleased to be able to provide you today with some details concerning the Symposium and LANGSCAPE Doctoral Seminar in Barcelona in October this year along with the according proposal forms:
1. The Symposium
“Sociocultural Approaches to Additional Language Learning/Teaching Research and Teacher Education: Bridging the Gap between Practice and Theory”
taking place between 14th and 16th October. Please follow these links for a detailed description of the Symposium and the form to be filled in and sent back to the organizers if you wish to propose a contribution.
2. The LANGSCAPE Doctoral Seminar
“Research on multilingualism in the language classroom”
which will be held prior to the Symposium on 13th October. Please find here a short description and the proposal form to be sent back as well to the coordinators named.
For any problems and questions concerning the events in Barcelona, please contact the organizers/coordinators introduced in the documents.
Looking forward to meeting you there.
Best regards from Berlin,
Claudia Schmidt (on behalf of the LANGSCAPE Coordination Team)
Dear LANGSCAPE members,
we hope you’re all fine and we send you our best wishes for the New Year.
In the last LANGSCAPE meeting in Brussels it was decided to pursue the project of a printed book series. Moreover, it was considered important to have 3 titles ready to be able to contact a publisher who might be interested. The BoD suggested that the first volume for the series could be based on selected papers from the Brussels Conference “SOCIOCULTURAL COMPETENCE & LANGUAGE LEARNING IN MULTILINGUAL SETTINGS” (2014). Katja, could you please give us further information about that? We also know that Jean-Paul and Marie-Françoise Narcy-Combes are offering to publish a monography in this series about their current research.
As we would like to proceed with this project, we’re contacting you today in order to find out whether you’re also planning to publish a volume in this series. If so, could you please contact us with details about a potential publication project?
Thanks for your help and all the best,
Christiane Fäcke (christiane.faecke@phil.uni-augsburg.de)
Marie-Françoise Narcy-Combes (marie-francoise.narcy-combes@univ-nantes.fr)
Dear Langscape members,
We are very pleased to be able to send our best wishes for a happy New Year in conjunction with the announcement of the next general Langscape-Meeting (functioning as a BoD – meeting) at the University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona on the 13th October, 2015.
We are very grateful to Olga Esteve and her team, who will host this meeting and the succession of other Langscape-related events in the same week. The Langscape/BoD-Meeting will be in a sandwich-position between an opening Doctoral Seminar and a three-day Symposium of the AILA ReN “Sociocultural Theory and Emergentism”. You are all very warmly invited to participate in each of these events.
Below, you find a tentative schedule for you to be able to save the date(s).
• Langscape Doctoral Seminar: ‘Research on multilingualism in educational settings’ October 13th, 2015 (9 a.m. – 1.30 p.m.)
• Langscape & BoD-Meeting (open to all Langscape members) October 13th, 2015 (afternoon, est. 4 p.m. – 8 p.m.)
• Symposium: Sociocultural approaches to additional language learning/teaching research and teacher education: bridging the gap between practice and theory, University Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona) October 14th -16th, 2015
•AILA ReN-Meeting October 16th, 2015 (4 p.m. – 6 p.m.)
A more detailled programme for the whole week, a Call for Papers for the ReN-Symposium and details for the Doctoral Seminar will be coming soon.
We hope to see you in Barcelona in October.
Best wishes from Berlin for now,
Stephan, Lutz and Claudia
Dear Langscape members, friends and colleagues,
The coordinating team wish you all a Merry Christmas.
Please feel invited to share a topical photo with with all of us for a little local X-Mas colour in our blog site.
Seasons greetings,
Stephan, Lutz & Claudia
Dear colleagues,
Since some of us are interested in emergentism, here you are an interesting French radio podcast on dynamic systems. Hope you may find it useful!
Edited by Jean Conteh (University of Leeds) and Gabriela Meier (Univeristy of Exeter) – who is also a member of Langscape – this volume has really just been published:
The Multilingual Turn in Languages Education. Opportunities and Challenges, Multilingual Matters (Sept. 2014).
For more detailed information on the book and to purchase via Discount Order Form (Order for £15 instead of £34.95), please refer to here.
Best regards,
Claudia Schmidt
Dear Langscape members and friends,
I´d like to forward the invitation for this very interesting 4-days workshop in Luxembourg:
New Challenges for Field Research in Applied Linguistics
University of Luxembourg – University of the Greater Region
Workshop for Students from MA and Doctoral Programs
September 15th-18th 2014, Walferdange
Prof. Dr. Peter Mühlhäusler, University of Adelaide
on behalf of Prof. Dr. Sabine Ehrhart, who organizes the workshop and is also member of the LANGSCAPE Board of Directors.
Please save the date and forward the information to your students and colleagues accordingly.
For details on the programme, registration and contact dates, please refer to here.
Have a great summer!
Best regards,
Claudia Schmidt
Dear Langscape members and friends,
I´d like to remind you once more of the IZBF Doctoral Summer School which will take place soon at HU Berlin:
The programme (pdf) can now be found on the Summer School website, which is being updated regularly.
Best regards,
Claudia Schmidt
Dear Langscape members and friends,
I´d like to forward the following interesting links on behalf of Jose I. Aguilar Río, member of the BoD – Doctoral Support and Networking:
1. Summer School in Oslo (Norway) in early September, title: “Different approaches to multilingualism” (social, cognitive, and psychological)”
For more, please refer to here.
2. The book “Young Children as Intercultural Mediators” by Zhiyan Guo has just been published.
For more, please refer to here.
Best regards,
Claudia Schmidt