Dear Langscape members and friends,
Here is good news for all of you who are working on a Master, PhD or Postdoc project that deals with Langscape issues such as plurilingualism, identity or CLIL: We are currently preparing an Erasmus+ application (Strategic Partnership Program) which will – if granted – allow us to offer beginning researchers much more support and opportunities for collaboration.
Our initiative aims at establishing regular summer schools and other sustainable structures for international collaboration (e.g. virtual winter schools, online workshops, opportunities for research exchanges or joint publications), not only on the level of methods and methodology, but also as a way to work together on closely related topics.
In order to come up with a truly convincing application we need to collect some information about our potential target group – i.e.: you! We need to know what kind of (post)doctoral support you already receive and what kind of international collaboration you think could be beneficial for you. We would thus like to invite you to take part in our online survey:
https://umfrage.hu-berlin.de/index.php/survey/index/sid/312213/newtest/Y/lang/en
The survey will be open until June 30 and can be completed in 5-10 minutes. In case you have questions please do not hesitate to get back to me.
You are also welcome to pass on this email to other (Langscape) researchers who might be interested in the kind of collaboration we are aiming at.
Kind regards,
Katrin Schultze
(for the Erasmus+ application team)
Dear all,
There are currently a number of funded Doctoral studentship opportunities at the University of Exeter’s Graduate School of Education, incl. in the field of language education. The following opportunities are now being advertised on the University website:
1) ESRC South-West Doctoral Training Partnership +3 and 1+3 Studentships. Please see: http://www.exeter.ac.uk/studying/funding/award/?id=2481. Deadline for application: 2nd February 2017.
2) University of Exeter Diamond Jubilee Scholarship. Please see: http://www.exeter.ac.uk/studying/funding/award/?id=2460. Deadline for application: 15th January 2017.
3) University of Exeter International Excellence Scholarship for Postgraduate Research. Please see: http://www.exeter.ac.uk/studying/funding/award/?id=2461. Deadline for application: 15th January 2017.
Full details of SSIS College PGR funding opportunities can be found here:
http://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/postgraduate/research/funding/. This page includes links to the various schemes and contains details about entry requirements and applications.
The Graduate School of Education has particular language-related strengths in:
· Educational corpus linguistics
· English for Academic Purposes
· Language teacher cognition
· Technology-enhanced learning
· Bilingual and multilingual approaches to education
· Language education and social cohesion
See here for a list of faculty working in these areas. We would strongly encourage potential applicants to contact a faculty member who might act as their supervisor and who could support them in the application process.
All the best,
Gabriela Meier
(Senior Lecturer in Language Education)
The 2017 Langscape Conference and Board of Director’s meeting will be held from 12-14 October, 2017 in Leeuwarden, Frisland (NL). We would like to thank Cor van der Meer and the Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning (a divison of the Fryske Academy) very warmly for hosting both events.
The conference will be titled “Multilingualism and Minorities” to reflect the special focus of the Mercator Research Centre on research related to regional and minority languages throughout Europe and beyond.
One session within the conference will be dedicated to “VUM and Language Pedagogy”, which will be the follow-up session for the VUM project (Vitality of Urban Multilingualism) kicked-off at this year’s Langscape conference in Berlin in July. All langscape members and the local VUM research groups in Augsburg, Berlin, Brussels, Istanbul, and London are particularly invited to present their work in this special-topic strand.
Last but not least, we are again planning for a doctoral seminar to take place in conjunction with the conference to give our junior researchers an opportunity to present and discuss their work in progress with us.
Please save the date for the upcoming Langscape Conference and BoD-Meeting from 12-14 Oct., 2017 in Leeuwarden.
Stephan & Lutz
Chèr(e)s collègues,
Nous vous rappelons que 24ème Congrès RANACLES se tiendra les 24, 25 et 26 novembre 2016 à l’université Paris-Sorbonne, ESPE de Paris, et qu’il se donne pour objectif d’interroger la notion d’espace d’apprentissage et de recherche en langues à l’ère du numérique.
Nous sommes heureux de vous signaler que programme complet du congrès figure désormais sur le site du colloque: http://ranacles2016.sciencesconf.org/
D’autre part, nous vous signalons que les inscriptions sont ouvertes. Notez cependant que vous devez procéder à votre inscription avant le 30 septembre 2016 pour pouvoir bénéficier du tarif préférentiel.
Nous nous réjouissons de vous retrouver nombreux à cette occasion.
Cordialement,
Cédric Brudermann
(pour le comité d’organisation)
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Dear colleagues,
We are happy to remind you that Université Paris-Sorbonne’s Education Department (ESPE de Paris) will host the 24th RANACLES Conference on 24-26 November 2016. This international conference aims at questioning the notion of language learning and research spaces in the digital age.
We are delighted to inform you that the full conference programme is now available online on the conference website: http://ranacles2016.sciencesconf.org/?lang=en
Please note that online registration is now open and that the early bird registration deadline is 30 September 2016.
We look forward to welcoming you to the conference.
Best regards,
Cédric Brudermann
(on behalf of the organising committee)
Dear all,
The poster for the VUM Symposium (8-9th July 2016) and the Doctoral Seminar (7th July 2016) is now available. Visit the blog for a preview. Please ask for a high-resolution printable version that we can send to you as soon as we hear from you at langscape@hu-berlin.de
Also, please all invite their PhD students to participate in the Langscape Doctoral Seminar (or, if you are a doctoral student, please feel invited to submit a short proposal for a presentation of your project). If funding is an issue, please also contact us. We promise to look for subsidies (even though we cannot promise to find them).
On behalf of the entire coordination team and directors of research project (Itesh & Katja) and of doctoral support and networking (José & Olga),
best wishes,
Stephan
Dear Langscape members,
Our directors of Teaching Projects – Daniela, Özlem, and Sevinc – propose to apply for a project within the Strategic Partnership funding line of the European Union (Erasmus+). The idea is to offer a specialised doctoral support programme offered through Langscape by its members over a period of three years. The core elements will be face-to-face summer schools and a virtual online module addressing relevant topics for PhD research in the field of multilingualism, language teaching and identity (e.g. concepts and theory, methodology and research methods), and for further academic qualification (e.g. teaching). The product aimed for in the project will be a sustainable curriculum for doctoral research and practice in the areas of investigation of Langscape. We thus hope to be able to offer a unique programme characterised by international perspectives across related areas of research that have not yet been linked or integrated “across disciplines & linguaspheres”.
Therefore, we will set aside a slot at the VUM Symposium in Berlin (8/9 July) of two-three hours to kick-off the project development phase in order to be able to meet the submission deadline in Feb/March 2017. Whilst planning will continue over the summer, actual proposal writing will start in October/Novembern 2016. The coordinators will be Daniela and her team at Frankfurt University.
All Langscape members wishing to be part of the project are requested to state their interest and register for the kick-off session. A preliminary description of the project idea including a quick-list of the cornerstones for Strategic Partnership projects Erasmus+ is attached to this call. In the online registration form for the kick-off meeting please indicate the teaching format (Summer School / online module) and the topic (e.g. theory; research methods; methodology; preparation for academic teaching, or any other) that you think you will be able to offer.
In order to facilitate communication and the preparation of the kick-off meeting, please use the Langscape Symposium website for your registration. Registration will be open until May 30th, 2016.
We are looking forward to meeting you in Berlin,
best wishes,
Lutz, Bettina, Stephan
Dear colleagues and friends,
Please, find attached the announcement of the LANGSCAPE Symposium on “Vitality of Urban Multilingualism & Language Pedagogy” taking place at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin on the 8th and 9th of July 2016.
Itesh Sachdev and Katja Lochtman – in their capacity as leaders of the directorate Research Projects – are currently initiating the research project “Vitality of Urban Multilingualism”.
Together with the LANGSCAPE coordinators, Katja and Itesh wish to encourage all members of the network to join the project and circulate the announcement of the Berlin symposium within their research groups. They will be happy to respond to all questions regarding the project. Questions, however, should be sent through langscape@hu-berlin.de
Thank you for your support of and contribution to this Langscape project.
Kind regards from of the project coordination team:
Itesh & Katja,
Lutz, Stephan & Bettina
20160322_Langscape Symposium Berlin_Announcement
ANNOUNCEMENT
LANGSCAPE Symposium: Vitality of Urban Multilingualism & Language Pedagogy
8 July 2016: 10.00 am – 5.00 pm
9 July 2016: 10.00 am – 3.00 pm
Room 2249a
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Unter den Linden 6
10099 Berlin
Registration by 30th May 2016
Multilingual living has received a considerable boost in recent times due to increased migration to urban contexts within and across national and regional boundaries. Super or hyperdiverse, globalised urban contexts, under a variety of different national and local policies and contexts, provides interesting challenges and opportunities for multilingual and intercultural communication, social cohesion and education. Focussing on language learning and language teacher education, this LANGSCAPE Symposium aims to explore how the Vitality of Urban Multilingualism (VUM) relates to intercultural competence, sensitivity and awareness and its role in language teaching and learning. VUM is about how societal multilingualism and individual plurilingualism thrive and flourish in urban conglomerations in terms of an array of demographic, status, and institutional support (& control) factors. We invite experts in the field of multi-/plurilingualism working on language learning and/or language teacher education to join us to discuss these issues in the symposium.
In addition to keynote speakers, the symposium in Berlin will provide a forum for presentation and discussion of preliminary data comprising interviews with language teachers across various LANGSCAPE cities/sites. We call for LANGSCAPE members to express their interest in the project on VUM & Language Pedagogy, and for a confirmation to conduct a small-scale interview study in their area/city by June 2016. This semi-structured interview study would consist of 6 main questions to be posed to language teachers. Ideally, we would like between 15-20 short interviews to be conducted by each partner. Of course, partners will determine the number of interviews according to time and capacity available. Please, send your expression of interest to conduct the interview study to langscape@hu-berlin.de by 27 March 2016. Interview questions and other materials will then be sent to you. Discussion at the symposium in Berlin of preliminary data and findings is envisaged.
For further information and registration for the symposium, please, go to: https://sites.google.com/site/langvumberlin2016/. Registration ends by 30th May 2016. A contribution for refreshments (€ 15) will be collected at the registration desk.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
- Lesley Harbon, University of Technology Sydney
“Superdiversity in language teacher education: compelling issues from the Australian context“
- Lid King, The Language Company, UK and Lorna Carson, Trinity College Dublin
“Diversity and the city – the LUCIDE experience”
- Cor van der Meer, Fryske Akademy, Mercator Institute
“Minority languages and urban multilingualism”
- Anne Pauwels, SOAS, University of London
Details will be confirmed.
Dear LANGSCAPE Members,
I am happy to announce three LANGSCAPE events that will take place in Berlin this summer.
LANGSCAPE doctoral seminar
Place: Humboldt-University, Berlin
Date and Time: July 7, 2016 / 1:00 – 7:00 pm
VUM Symposium
(“Vitality of Urban Multilingualism in Europe: Comparative cross-national studies”)
Place: Humboldt-University, Berlin
Date and Time:
July 8, 2016 / 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
July 9, 2016 / 10:00 am – 3:00 pm
LANGSCAPE Board of Directors meeting
Place: Humboldt-University, Berlin
Date and Time: July 8, 2016 / 5:30 – 7:30 pm
More details on the registration formalities and the schedule of each day will be available soon.
We are looking forward to meeting you in Berlin.
Kind regards on behalf of the entire LANGSCAPE coordination team
Bettina Kaiser
Dear LANGSCAPE Members,
Time passes quickly and a month has already passed since our meeting in Barcelona in October. It is more than time to update the entire LANGSCAPE community on the key issues that were discussed in Spain. In the following, you will find all relevant information.
1 Personnel
- Bettina Kaiser will succeed Claudia Schmidt in her position as coordination assistant.
- Katja Lochtman now co-chairs the research projects directorate together with Itesh Sachdev.
2 New Members since Brussels
An Vande Casteele (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Yasemin Bayyurt (Boğaziçi University, Istanbul)
Cor van der Meer (Fryske Academy, Ljouwert)
Frank Rabe (Universität Braunschweig)
Gabriele Budach (University of Luxembourg)
Heini-Marja Järvinen (University of Turku)
Jenny Jakisch (Universität Braunschweig)
David Gerlach (Philipps-Universität Marburg)
María González Davies (Blanquerna Universitat Ramon Llull, Barcelona)
Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer (Universität Hamburg)
Sofia Stratilaki (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3)
Sumru Akcan (Boğaziçi University, Istanbul)
Lesley Harbon (University of Technology, Sydney)
Anka Bergmann (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
3 LANGSCAPE Projects
3.1 Research project: “Vitality of Urban Multilingualism” (VUM)
The research projects directorate will coordinate a collaborative research project called VUM. Research Questions of this project will be:
- What is the VUM in LANGSCAPE partners cities/towns?
- What are attitudes to multilingualism and plurilingualism in these places; How do VUM and attitudes to multilingualism relate?
- Focus on Teacher Education – a qualitative study: How is VUM reflected in educational contexts through teachers attitudes, classroom practice and school policies?
Itesh Sachdev and Katja Lochtman will keep LANGSCAPE members informed on the progress of the project. Soon, more detailed information will be made available via the LANGSCAPE blog.
At the VUM Symposium in Berlin between 8th and 9th of July 2016, first results can be discussed among participants.
3.2 Book series: Research on Identity/Multilingualism/Plurilingualism (RIMP)
LANGSCAPE will establish a printed monolingual English book series as well as an online multilingual open access publication.
3.3 Visibility
A working group within LANGSCAPE will create an official, updated and redesigned website. The LANGSCAPE Coordination team will also finalise the new poster design together with the concept of the slogan. Results of both processes will be made available to the LANGSCAPE community early in the next year.
3.4 Doctoral Support
Doctoral seminars will be established as a regular forum for exchange preferably at the annual LANGSCAPE meetings.
4 Prospective Tasks
4.1 Next LANGSCAPE meeting and doctoral seminar 2016
Both will take place in Berlin between the 7th and 9th of July 2016.
4.2 Next LANGSCAPE meeting and doctoral seminar 2017
Members will need to determine the venue for the meeting and doctoral seminar in 2017.
Please, do not hesitate to contact us for any further questions or comments at langscape@hu-berlin.de.
Kind regards from your co-ordination team,
Bettina Kaiser, Stephan Breidbach und Lutz Küster
Dear LANGSCAPE members,
we are happy to announce that the website providing detailed information on the Symposium
“Sociocultural Approaches to Additional Language Learning/Teaching, Research and Teacher Education: Bridging the Gap between Practice and Theory”
co-organized by LANGSCAPE BoD-member Olga Esteve (Doctoral Support & Networking) and taking place in Barcelona between 14th and 16th October is now accessible. Please refer to:
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Please keep in mind: as has been announced in earlier blog posts, there will also be the LANGSCAPE Doctoral Seminar and LANGSCAPE-BoD-and-members-Meeting (on the 13th October) as well as the AILA-Meeting (on the 16th October) surrounding the symposium.
[For older blog posts, please see:
and:
Best regards,
Claudia Schmidt