Call for papers:

Lidil issue 69, May 2024
Second language training facing emergency

Migrants today find themselves in an "emergency" context aggravated by the pandemic. The uncertainty of their condition, due to practical, legal and institutional matters, has been worsen by the current issues related to health and security, which is weakening their integration process even more. In such a context, it is also urgent to reconsider the language needs of migrants, in other words, to address, in terms of language training, the urgency of their integration through language as well as the new difficulties in meeting the needs that they express as learners. Thus, this issue of Lidil seeks to deepen the reflection on topics related to second languages for migrants (Lebreton, 2017; Azaoui et al., 2019) in the context of pandemic and post-pandemic emergency (Achour, 2021).
In this perspective, Nathalie Gettliffe & Marie-Aline Ardisson (2022) have called very recently on the need of developing a didactique de la catastrophe (didactics in catastrophic situation) for French as a foreign or second language. They argue and emphasize that, while various catastrophes displaced populations on a massive scale in the second half of the twentieth century (partition of Europe, wars in South-East Asia, etc.), these displacements have been accelerated in the twenty-first century (Gardou 2006; 2012), due first and foremost to economic, social and political reasons, but nowadays, to crises relating to health and safety more than ever. However, they conclude, “the didactics in emergency (didactique de l’urgence, Beacco, 2012) still seems to be poorly conceptualized” insofar as this question initially posed by Beacco now dates back to more than ten years.
Therefore, the main objective of the call for papers for this issue of Lidil will be to assess, in the light of current events, the relevance of “emergency” in the field of language teaching research, i.e. to define what extensions or theoretical renewals this concept has acquired (see e.g. Macé, 2017). At the same time, we would like not only to report on various tools, including digital ones, that have been put in place and experimented over the past three years, but also to explore how they have been used since then or can be used today (see Abid et al., 2022 and forthcoming, 2023).
Moreover, this call for papers also aims to review the ins and outs, principles and issues of what some researchers have called the "Emergency Linguistics" (see Piller et al., 2020; Civico, 2021; Dreisbach & Mendoza-Dreisbach, 2021). This emerging discipline thus seeks to take advantage of the achievements of language sciences to describe and improve the conditions of communication in public or personal emergency situations, especially in the aim of guaranteeing access to vital information. When it comes to application, this would involve rethinking or revising second language training for migrants in terms of "Emergency Language Services" (Yao, 2022).
We therefore invite researchers to submit a contribution that addresses one of the related axes/questios:
See complete Call for papers: https://journals.openedition.org/lidil/3231?lang=en#tocto1n3 (Issue 69)

Submitted abstracts should not exceed 3 pages (including references).
Full papers should not exceed 40,000 characters (including spaces).
Papers may be written in English, French or Italian.
Proposals for abstracts and papers should be sent to both: [email protected] and [email protected].
Full call for papers to consult https://journals.openedition.org/lidil/3231?lang=en#tocto1n3

Important dates
30th April 2023: submission of 3-page abstracts
Mid-May 2023: notification of acceptance or rejection of abstracts
31st July 2023: submission of full papers V1
31st October 2023: submission of revised papers V2