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Fresh off the press + discount order option: The Multilingual Turn in Languages Education

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

 

Save the date: Workshop “New Challenges for Field Research in Applied Linguistics”, September 15-18, University of Luxembourg

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

 

 

 

 

 

29. July 2014 | Posted by | No comments »
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REMINDER: IZBF Summer School in Berlin

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 methodology chapter in doctoral (and MA) research – quite essential, but also self-evident?
Focus: language teaching & learning”

 

The programme (pdf) can now be found on the Summer School website, which is being updated regularly.

 

Best regards,

Claudia Schmidt

16. July 2014 | Posted by | No comments »
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NEWS: Book publication & Summer School in Oslo

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

Publication: The European Journal of Applied Linguistics and TEFL

Please pay attention to this issue, which has been published subsequent to the “Conference CALPIU`12”:

The European Journal of Applied Linguistics and TEFL, edited by Andrzej Cirocki (Volume 2 Number 1, 2013).

LANGSCAPE members who have participated in the conference in the panel “The re-construction of professional identities of prospective EFL-teachers from different European and non-European countries” also have contributed to this issues (see below). The conference was held in Roskilde (DK) in April 2012 under the overall topic: “Higher education across borders: Transcultural interaction and linguistic diversity”.

Here is an abstract of the Conference Theme (taken from the conference website):

The aim of CALPIU’12 is to discuss various aspects of the consequences of transnational student mobility.

Student mobility makes necessary both cultural and linguistic accommodation and learning processes. We are witnessing a huge increase in the learning of languages to be used as lingua francas by academic teachers and students, not least English, ‘the language of globalization’.

However, forces of ‘localization’, too, are manifest at every university trying to adopt internationalization strategies, the tension between the global and the local – uniformity and diversification – creating a multidimensional space for new kinds of cultural and linguistic hybridity to flourish.

There is a new open-mindedness regarding the roles and identities of self and others, leading to new patterns of linguistic/interactive, educational and social practices. We aim to further the theoretical understanding of these processes, those of active and receptive multilingualism as well as language alternation in interaction.

Here is an abstract taken from the issue´s cover:

Volume 2 Number 1 comprises ten articles presenting the latest research and
scholarship from Singapore, Taiwan, the United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, the
United Kingdom, Sweden, Turkey, Germany, France, China and the USA.
This provides a valuable source of reference for applied linguists, teacher
trainers, materials developers and practitioners in the field of EFL/ESL. It offers
readers a deeper insight into current issues, thereby broadening their
knowledge and promoting professional development.

Authors associated with LANGSCAPE that have contributed to this issue: Özlem Etuş, Dagmar Abendroth-Timmer & José I. Aguilar Río, Alice Chik, Katrin Schultze and Stephan Breidbach (as topic editor).

You can find the detailed list of contents and authors in this pdf.

For more information, please refer to the Journal website.

 

Reminder: IZBF Doctoral Summer School 2014

Dear Langscape members and friends,

I´d like to remind you of the IZBF Doctoral Summer School which will take place soon at HU Berlin (see blogpost at https://blog.hu-berlin.de/langscape/2014/04/). The title has now been specified.

The Summer School will focus on:

The methodology chapter in doctoral (and MA) research – quite essential, but also self-evident?
Focus: language teaching & learning

 

A detailed description and program will be available in due time. For further information, please refer to:
http://zentrum-bildungsforschung.hu-berlin.de/veranstaltungen/summer-school-des-izbf (at the moment, this website has a German version only).

For any problems, questions etc. do not hesitate to contact me.

Best regards,

Claudia Schmidt

Just Published: Social Dimensions of Autonomy in Language Learning

Edited by Garold Murray (Okayama University, JAPAN) this book has just been published:

Social Dimensions of Autonomy in Language Learning, edited by Garold Murray (2014, Palgrave Macmillan).

Here is an excerpt taken from the book cover:

Learner autonomy in language learning, initially associated with independence, is now
viewed as a capacity that can be developed in social contexts involving learner
interdependence and collaboration. In this volume researchers, most of whom are also
language teachers, from Asia, the Caribbean, Europe, and North and South America, explore
the social aspects of learner autonomy in various language learning contexts. Bringing
together theory, research and practice, the studies draw on socially oriented theoretical
perspectives – such as social constructivism, sociocultural theory, situated learning, ecology
and complexity – and primarily employ case study and ethnographic methodologies. This
research suggests that the social dimensions of learner autonomy encompass underinvestigated
emotional, spatial and political dimensions. In addition to theoretical issues,
the authors discuss implications for practice, making this book of interest to teachers,
researchers, and other language professionals working in classrooms, distance education,
self-access centres, as well as virtual and social learning spaces.

With contributions by: Alice Chik and Stephan Breidbach (from Langscape), Garold Murray, Christine O’Leary, Tim Lewis and Tomoko Yashima and others

For a detailed list of contents and authors, please see here.

To purchase, refer to Palgrave Macmillan Publishers.

 

Coming soon: Conference “Sloganizations in Language Education Discourse”, 8 – 10 May, 2014 at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Dear Langscape members and friends,

this is to inform you about a very international conference co-organised by the University of Waterloo (Barbara Schmenk) and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Lutz Küster & Stephan Breidbach) taking place before long:

Sloganizations in Language Education Discourse

Venue: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

8 – 10 May, 2014

Since I´m aware that this announcement comes a bit late, I would like to invite you to join this interesting conference at least mentally and take note of the conference website:

http://www.sloganizations.de/

It would be a pleasure to meet some of you there.

You find all neccessary information on the website, which is up-dated regularly. In case you would like to attend or have any further question concerning the conference, do not hesitate to write an e-mail to: sloganizations2014@hu-berlin.de.

Kind regards,

Claudia Schmidt

Save the Date: IZBF Doctoral Summer School 2014 at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Dear Langscape members and friends,

The Interdisciplinary Centre for Educational Research (IZBF) at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin invites postgraduates and PhD-researchers to take part in the Doctoral Summer School 2014.

This year’s motto of the Summer School will be:

The methodology chapter in educational research –
issues in empirical and theory-driven research

The Summer School welcomes doctoral researchers from all fields of educational research. In 2014, there will be a special focus on research projects in language education. Working languages will be German and English.

The Summer School will take place on 11th and 12th September 2014 at the Campus Mitte of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

The overall aim of this year´s Summer School is to foreground important methodological issues in both empirical and theory-driven research. Guiding questions will be:

  • What basic assumptions is a research question based on?

  • What are the contexts that give relevance to individual projects?

  • Which is the scope of the expected results of a research project?

  • How are the research topic and the applied methods linked?

  • Which perspectives are opened by individual research designs and which are excluded? What are the potentials and limitations of analytic-nomothetic and interpretive-reconstructive methods?

  • Which issues referring to ethical guidelines for research are to be accounted for?

These and other related questions will be discussed in workshops and counselling sessions conducted by various experts in the field of research methodology.

Details on the program, application & registration procedure and participation fees will be announced in May 2014. Members of the IZFB qualify for a reduced rate.

For further information, please refer to:
http://zentrum-bildungsforschung.hu-berlin.de/summerschool/

Alternatively, contact Jurik Stiller at the IZBF: jurik.stiller@hu-berlin.de

Organising Committee of the IZFB-Summer School 2014:

Anka Bergmann (Russian Language Education)

Stephan Breidbach (English Language Education)

Stefan Kipf (Latin/Greek Language Education)

Lutz Küster (French/Spanish Language Education)

 

(You can find this announcement as pdf file here.)

 

Best regards,

Claudia Schmidt

Save the date & Call for Papers: International conference SOCIOCULTURAL COMPETENCE & LANGUAGE LEARNING IN MULTILINGUAL SETTINGS, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 18-19 September 2014

Dear Langscape members,

please save the date for another interesting conference on 18 and 19 September at Brussels!

The International conference “SOCIOCULTURAL COMPETENCE & LANGUAGE LEARNING IN MULTILINGUAL SETTINGS”

at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, BRUSSELS, on 18-19 September 2014.

All information concerning the conference, deadlines for the Call for Papers etc. are to be found here:

http://www.vub.ac.be/events/2014/scll2014

Please forward the link and information on this conference also to anyone not (or not yet) affiliated with the Langscape Network.

PLEASE NOTE: We are planning a Langscape- as well as a BoD-Meeting alongside the conference, so coming to Brussels in autumn will be rewarding in more than one way…

A precise date will be negotiated in due time.

Kindest regards,

Claudia