Dear Langscape members,
Please find below the following announcement brought to our attention by Gaby Meier.
Kind regards
Bettina

‘The Power of Language, The Language of Power’

Seminar by John Edwards and wine reception, 17.05.2016, 1-2pm, Aberystwyth University

Hot on the heels of yesterday’s exciting announcement about the one-day conference in Bangor (https://goo.gl/PEJPW0), here’s an earlier talk also with Prof. John Edwards (editor of the Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development), on 17th May, this time in Aberystwyth.

Please register here: https://thepoweroflanguage.eventbrite.co.uk. The abstract and other info are there too. (Note: Eventbrite will pester you to print and bring your ticket but that’s not necessary; it’s just to help gauge numbers for catering etc.)

The seminar runs 1-2pm, so it’ll be easier to travel to and from the event the same day. There will be a wine & nibbles reception afterwards, so you might like to plan for the 15:30 train out of Aberystwyth (which gets to e.g. Birmingham by 6.30pm, or changing to e.g. Manchester by 7pm, or London or Cardiff by 8pm). For info here’s a map showing the route from the venue to the train station at that time:
https://goo.gl/maps/rRU1rNto7L82.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact either Rhys Jones (raj[at]aber.ac.uk) or Sarah Creed (CreedS[at]cardiff.ac.uk).

Dear colleagues,
Please note that there are vacancies in TESOL/Language education at  the University of Exeter. These are advertised together with other positions in education. You have to scroll down the person specifications to find the relevant job descriptions.

Closing date 2 May 2016

Information can be found here:

Lecturer (education and research)
Job add: https://jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecruitment/wrd/run/ETREC107GF.open?VACANCY_ID=721836ENsh&WVID=3817591jNg&LANG=USA
job descriptions: http://admin.exeter.ac.uk/personnel/jobs/P00619.pdf

Professor (education and research)
Job add: https://jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecruitment/wrd/run/ETREC107GF.open?VACANCY_ID=341871ENsh&WVID=3817591jNg&LANG=USA
Job descriptions: http://admin.exeter.ac.uk/personnel/jobs/P00618AP.pdf

It would be great to have Langscape colleagues at Exeter!
All the best,
Gaby

Dr Gabriela Meier
Lecturer in Language Education
Graduate School of Education
University of Exeter
St Luke’s Campus
Exeter EX1 2LU, UK

Dear Langscape members,

Itesh Sachdev has kindly forwarded the following call for works in progress by the International Association of Language and Social Psychology. Please, widely circulate the call to colleagues and postgraduate students. It seems a wonderful opportunity to share ideas. For further questions, please, contact Itesh Sachdev at i.sachdev[at]soas.ac.uk

Kind regards

Bettina Kaiser

15th International Conference on Language and Social Psychology
**Now Accepting Works in Progress**

The International Association of Language and Social Psychology (www.ialsp.org) is now accepting Works in Progress to be presented and “workshopped” at the upcoming 15th International Conference on Language and Social Psychology (ICLASP) which will be held June 22-25th, 2016 in Bangkok, Thailand.

Deadline: 1st April, 2016

Works in Progress is a new category of submissions for ICLASP and will give presenters a unique opportunity to present a “work in progress” and engage in a small group discussion about the work among a group of distinguished and emerging international scholars including journal editors and reviewers. The goal is to provide presenters with specific feedback in order to move the research from a “work in progress” to a “work in press” (or similar outcome). The Works in Progress presentations are a natural extension to the supportive networking and mentoring opportunities that are already at the core of the International Association of Language and Social Psychology. We encourage Works in Progress submissions from first year graduate students to emeritus professors recognizing that all scholarship is enhanced when it is shaped by a larger social scientific community!

Send Works in Progress Submissions to: iclasplirod@gmail.com with “ICLASP works in progress” in the subject line by April 1st, 2016.

For more details, please, see the attached “call for papers”.

Call for Papers ICLASP 15 works in progress

Dear friends and colleagues of LANGSCAPE,

Please, find attached the call for papers for the next LANGSCAPE doctoral seminar. It invites doctoral students and candidates working on multilingualism, language teaching and learning, language teachers’ education and professional development. We kindly ask you to forward the call to interested students.

Kind regards

Bettina Kaiser

CALL FOR PAPERS

LANGSCAPE Doctoral Seminar

Thursday 7 July 2016: 1.00 pm – 7.00 pm

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Unter den Linden 6

10099 Berlin

Submission deadline: 8 May 2016

The LANGSCAPE Doctoral Seminar invites doctoral students and candidates working on multilingualism, language teaching and learning, language teachers’ education and professional development to present and share their work in a collaborative way.

When submitting a proposal you may choose between two basic formats: an oral presentation or a workshop format. Please choose the format that you think will best meet your expectations regarding the discussion of your research. Submissions for both formats will have to comply with the requirements described below:

• Each oral presentation should last no longer than 20 minutes. Oral presentations will be gathered in panels of two to three contributions. Each panel will run for 90 minutes allowing for discussion of each presentation. Participants who will choose an oral presentation will focus on theoretical, methodological, general aspects of their work and/or the discussion of potential results of their research. Oral presentations should aim at highlighting key aspects of the Ph.D. project in a concise way.
• Workshop sessions will run for up to 60 minutes. Two to three participants may work together to present specific aspects of their work. Proposals for this format will have to take into account that other participants will join the discussion in Berlin. The workshops are expected to combine a collaborative perspective with a “hands-on” approach. (Possible themes include: data discussion sessions, discussion of methodology etc.)

We invite proposals with a maximum length of 500 words. Abstracts should be submitted at https://sites.google.com/site/langdocsember2016/ by 8 May 2016. For any further questions concerning the doctoral seminar, please, contact jose.aguilarrio[at]univ-paris3.fr.

The Doctoral Seminar will be followed by the LANGSCAPE VUM Symposium at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin between the 8^th and 9^th July 2016. Participants of the Doctoral Seminar are invited to stay for the Symposium. More detailed information will be forthcoming.

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Dear Langscape members,

please, find attached the following announcement of the conference “The Future of Multilingualism in the German Education System” taking place in Berlin between the 3rd and 4th of March 2016.

Detailed information: sprachen2016.de

Although half the world’s population is multilingual and the number of multilingual citizens in Germany is steadily increasing, multilingualism is still perceived not as an opportunity but as an obstacle on the way to a successful societal integration. Furthermore, multilingualism is beneficial in many ways and is a huge resource for today’s society. Being capable of speaking three languages is one of the primary education policy goals of the European Union and the support of multilingual development offers a solid basis for the further course of life.

Roughly twenty percent of the population in Germany uses one more language other than German within their families. Thus, hundreds of thousands of children in Germany are raised multilingually. The number of people who use Russian and Turkish along with German in everyday life is the highest.

German educational institutions have reacted fairly slowly to the fact that more and more children are being raised multilingually. Even though there are many bilingual kindergartens and schools in which bilingual education incorporates the languages spoken in Germany, education in the language of origin still remains at the margin nationwide. In this situation, the demand is considerably greater than the supply and is certainly not limited to Turkish and Russian.

It is the goal of the conference »The Future of Multilingualism in the German Education System: Russian and Turkish in Focus« to make a scientific and pedagogical-methodical contribution to current research and to the implementation of Turkish and Russian in the educational context. The conference aims at fostering the exchange between experts from the fields of multilingualism research and education policy, and from educational institutions and migrant associations. Thereby, the awareness of the benefits of multilingualism will be promoted and a positive attitude towards multilingualism and multilingual language acquisition among children will be reinforced. Scientific knowledge will be made more accessible for more immediate implementation.

In plenary presentations with invited speakers and numerous workshops, current issues in multilingualism will be discussed and presented to a broader public; examples for »good practice« will be introduced. The participation of international researchers enables intense discussions of various aspects of multilingualism and the experience of various countries can be shared. For instance, the issue of the necessity of regular language assessments and their particularities in multilingual children will be raised and the significance of holistic/crosslinguistic language support in early childhood and in kindergarten will be discussed, as well as the role of a home language, bilingual literacy, intercultural competence and the potential of language support programs in schools.

Dear friends and colleagues in Langscape,

Please find below the call for papers for a conference on Languages and Cultures organised by the Languages and Cultures Department at Sheffield Hallam University. The organizers hope to welcome many colleagues from within and outside the UK.

Kind regards,

Bettina Kaiser

Languages and Cultures in 21st Century Transnationality CFP
Languages and Cultures at Sheffield Hallam University,
City Campus, Sheffield, S1 1WB
Friday 9 and Saturday 10 September 2016
Abstract deadline: 31 March 2016

The concept of transnationality is increasingly common currency in the globalized world.
Modern Languages, both implicitly or explicitly, deals with the transnational aspects of cultures and, as a discipline, it is hence ideally suited to have societal impact on the construction of transnational education. Intercultural citizenship, in particular, is becoming a sine qua non in the Twenty-First Century. Modern Languages poses multicultural and multilingual questions about identity, subjectivity and alterity of past, present and future. As academics we represent institutional power and theoretical knowledge; we are mediators between theoretical processes of conceptualization and practical moments of interpretation; information brokers and hence in the fortunate positions to bring about social change.

The aim of the conference is to bring together scholars from Applied Linguistics, Intercultural Studies and European Cultural Studies to create intercultural and interdisciplinary synergies that go beyond national borders, linguistic silos or academic canons, and thus echo practices of human mobility. Themes of particular interest in the three streams include, but are not limited to:

Applied Linguistics:
·       CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning), technology-enhanced learning, film as teaching tool
·       language acquisition, language planning
·       learner autonomy, student engagement
·       multilingualism, translation
·       discourse analysis

Intercultural Studies:
·       citizenship, identity, multiculturalism, nationhood, race
·       intercultural awareness, communication, competence, education, management
·       tourism, postcolonialism
·       international student migration

European Cultural Studies:
·       the transnational currency of popular cultural products
·       translations, transpositions, transmediality
·       synergies/dialogues across national cultures
·       intersections of culture with other fields/disciplines (history, law, literature, sociology, technology)
·       dialogues across sociocultural strata (e.g. popular and elite cultures)
·       fluidity of identity

We invite proposals for 20-min papers; proposals for panels are also welcome. 250-word abstracts should be submitted by 31 March 2016 to Dr Anja Louis at: a.louis@shu.ac.uk Abstracts should include the author’s name, affiliation and email address.

Please specify ‘Languages and Cultures Conference’ in the subject of your email.
We will acknowledge receipt of all abstracts submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us within two weeks, you should assume we did not receive your email.

Dear LANGSCAPE members,

please, find attached the announcement of the next DILTEC event:

DILTEC colloque international

“Ethique et responsabilité pour la didactique des langues au XXIe siècle”

October 21 and 22, 2016

Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3, Paris

Ethique 1er appel colloque diltec 2016 final avec bonne adresse

Kind regards

Bettina Kaiser

Dear LANGSCAPE members,

the next LANGSCAPE meeting as well as the LANGSCAPE doctoral seminar will be taking place in Barcelona in a few days. Please, find below the details of the two events.

LANGSCAPE doctoral seminar

Date:            13th Oct. 2015

Time:            9.30-13.00 pm

Place: Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Campus de la Comunicació-Poblenou, room 52.217

Link to location: http://www.upf.edu/campus/comunicacio/

Further information: seminario-doctoral

Attachment below: Agenda and Abstracts of the doctoral seminar

LANGSCAPE Meeting: Board of Directors and Members

Date:            13th Oct. 2015

Time:            4.00-8.00 pm

Place: Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Campus de la Comunicació-Poblenou, room 52.415

Link to location: http://www.upf.edu/campus/comunicacio/

Attachment below: Agenda of the meeting

As a final step in our preparations, could you please send nominations of prospective members to Langscape by the 9th of February. “Nomination” here is meant to refer to people who might be interested in LANGSCAPE and whom we should extend an invitation to.

Thank you very much for your input. I am looking forward to meeting you all in Barcelona very soon.

Please, do not hesitate to contact me for any further questions.

With kind regards from Berlin,

Bettina Kaiser

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Dear colleagues at Langscape,

I would like to draw your attention to a EU-project in which the Humboldt-University (Dpt. EFL-Methodology) acts as one of six internatinal partners. I would also like to invite you to participate in the final conference in Las Palmas (Gran Canaria, Spain) from Nov. 30 – Dec. 1st 2015. You find all relevant information below.

The project titled “playingCLIL” is supported by the European Commission within the Lifelong Learning Programme – KA 2 Languages (2014-15). The project consortium consists of six partners from four countries (Germany, Romania, Spain, and the United Kingdom) working in a variety of educational contexts (formal and informal education and higher education).

The project aims at developing a teaching method for Content-and-Language-Integrated Learning (CLIL) which is based on the principles of drama pedagogy using drama games as default settings for classroom activities.
The project targets CLIL teacher and teacher educators at universities and teacher training colleges alike.
PlayingCLIL games are currently being tested by collaborating teachers in primary, secondary, vocational and adult education. A comprehensive collection of tested games will be available as a comprehensive handbook (print and an e-book version) in early December 2015.

The playingCLIL project team invite the CLIL research and teaching community to attend the “European playingCLIL Conference – Method – Practice – Perspecitves” hosted by the Universitad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria from Nov. 30th to Dec. 1st, 2015. The conference will be dedicated not only to the release of the handbook but first and foremost to a general and practical introduction to playingCLIL, voices from the classroom, and discussions by educators and CLIL experts on future perspectives of CLIL in Europe.

www.playingclil.eu

Please forward this information to other colleagues interested in the topic.

Contact: Stephan Breidbach

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