LINGUIST List 22.3100 Wed Aug 03 2011 Confs: Sociolinguistics/Spain Editor for this issue: Zac Smith <zaclinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.     Vanessa Bretxa , Language Policy in Higher Education Workshop Message 1: Language Policy in Higher Education Workshop Date: 03-Aug-2011 From: Vanessa Bretxa <vanessa.bretxaub.edu> Subject: Language Policy in Higher Education Workshop E-mail this message to a friend Language Policy in Higher Education Workshop Short Title: MSLC2011 Date: 28-Oct-2011 - 28-Oct-2011 Location: Barcelona, Spain Contact: Vanessa Bretxa Contact Email: < click here to access email > Meeting URL: http://www.ub.edu/cusc/llenguesmitjanes/?lang=en Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics Meeting Description: Research into medium-sized language communities has revealed that higher education (teaching and research therein) is one of the areas of society most susceptible to processes of linguistic homogenization and in which medium-sized languages come under the greatest pressure. In the communities studied so far there is evidence of a clear contradiction between the presence of native languages and the growing pressure exerted by preferred lingua francas, in particular English, which – albeit at different rates in each context – grows each day as the international academic lingua franca. Similarly, the reorganization of language use in academic settings is by no means uniform, and the policies adopted are numerous and highly diverse, from university systems in which English is barely used as a teaching language to systems which adopt it to a far greater degree and even systems that use a different international lingua franca. The aim of this workshop is not just compare the situations and the glottopolitical processes of different medium-sized languages in higher education settings, but to consider the linguistic, social, political and economic factors that condition the processes in each case. The workshop will explore the following issues: - Language use at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. - The position of medium-sized languages in university research. - Policies on linguistic requirements for native languages and lingua francas. - The motives behind the design of language policies. 9h Welcome 9.30h Introduction. F. Xavier Vila and the Vice-Rector for Students and Language Policy 10h The position of Catalan and other languages at Catalan universities - Eva Pons, University of Barcelona 11h The position of Danish and other languages at Danish universities - Hartmut Haberland and Bent Preisler, University of Copenhagen 12h Coffee break 12.30h The position of Finnish and other languages at Finnish universities - Sabine Ylönen, University of Jyväskylä 13.30h The position of medium-sized language communities in South Africa - Anne-Marie Beukes, University of Johannesburg 14.30h Lunch 16h The position of Hebrew and other languages at Israeli universities - Ram Drorit, Levinsky College of Education 17h The position of Swedish and other languages at Swedish universities - (pending confirmation) 18h Roundtable with all conference presenters. Moderator: F. Xavier Vila Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 03-Aug-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.