Full Title: II Research Conference: Learning and teaching languages in the 21st-century Southern Hemisphere and the ‘Developing World’: Teachers, students and the act of teaching as agents of change
Short Title: LangConfUCH

Date: 26-Oct-2023 - 27-Oct-2023
Location: Santiago, Chile
Contact Person: Javiera Adaros
Meeting Email: [email protected]

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
Subject Language(s): Spanish (spa)

Call Deadline: 31-Jul-2023

Meeting Description:

Our fast-changing world has been experiencing social challenges that seem to be away from classrooms, even though they still affect our students and us as we coexist in the same society. Since the previous version of this conference explored current research conducted in the field of language learning and teaching in the Southern Hemisphere, this second version of the event will focus on teachers, students, and the act of teaching as agents of change in what is known as the ‘Developing World’

According to Paulo Freire, “education is not neutral”, so we as teachers cannot continue pretending our performance is not a political one. Indeed, Chile has had several demonstrations and protests from learning communities (2005, 2006, and 2011 were the largest; students have continued their fight until today), whose main demands were included in the new constitution proposal (which was voted against on September 4th). Other countries in our region have also experienced these massive protests, like Colombia (2011 and 2018), Brazil (2013), Nicaragua (2018), and Mexico (2012). If we expand our scope, then we can find similar protests in South Africa (2015), Iraq, Lebanon, and Mauritius (2019), and Turkey (2021). However, these events are part of a larger social unrest that each country has had to deal with, usually resulting in even larger protests as most demands are not met. That is why this conference will continue examining learning and teaching practices of languages in the Southern Hemisphere and the ‘Developing World’, but this time we are adding the ever-present political dimension that our practices have.

Final Call for Papers:

The Department of Linguistics at University of Chile invites you to the second Research Conference Learning and teaching languages in the 21 st -century Southern Hemisphere and the ‘Developing World’: teachers, students and the act of teaching as agents of change, which will be hosted online during October 26th and 27th, 2023. This online conference offers researchers, teachers, and students an instance to meet and explore how teaching, learning, and using languages is done in the Southern Hemisphere and countries labeled as ‘developing’. It will also provide the attendants with the opportunity to examine how politics and social issues intersect with our practices in the classrooms in places away from Europe and North America.

Keynote Speakers
Dr. Reem Bassiouney
Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Applied Linguistics at American University
in Cairo, Egypt.
[email protected]

Dr. Cristine Gorski
Associate Professor and Researcher from the Center for Communication and Expression at
Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil.
[email protected]

Scientific Committee
Mg. Deisy Campos
University of Atacama, Chile.
Dra. Andreia dos Santos Menezes
Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil.
Dr. Danielle H. Heinrichs
Griffith University, Australia.
Mg. Katherine Keim
University of O’Higgins, Chile.
Dr. Carlos José Lírio
Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil.
Mg. Inés Regueira
University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Dr. Maha Soliman
Bernardo O’Higgins University, Chile.

Abstract Submission
● Speakers can choose to present in English or Spanish; their abstracts will have to be written
in English or Spanish as well.
● Papers consist of a standard 20-minute presentation, plus 5 minutes Q&A. A round table will
be organized within the 90 minutes slot, which will be streamed
● Presenters will be allowed to present only two times if they submit more than one paper.
● Abstract for general submission:
○ 250-300 words plus one extra page for main references (title, author(s) and
references are not counted)
○ References must be cited following APA format.
○ Formats for proposals: .doc o .docx
○ Font: Times New Roman size 12
○ Line spacing: 1.5
○ Submission deadline: July 31st, 2023

○ Notifications of acceptance will be sent by the end of September 2021
○ Send submissions to [email protected]

Topics
These include but are not limited to:
• Glotopolitics
• Critical Discourse Analysis
• Language ideology (native /non native speakerism, gender perspectives to curriculum design and evaluation, language planning and policies)
• Critical Pedagogy
• Pragmatics in the 21st century
• New language research labels: LX, FL and Translanguaging
• Online language teaching and learning (methods, approaches, evaluation, curricular design, etc)

Conference Fees

Undergraduate student: attendee Free
Undergraduate student: participant CLP$10.000 / USD$10.00
Chilean and AUGM* postgraduate student: attendee CLP$10.000 / USD$10.00
Chilean and AUGM postgraduate student: participant CLP$20.000 / USD$20.00
International postgraduate student: participant CLP$25.000 / USD$25.00
Chilean and AUGM teacher/researcher: attendee CLP$15.000 / USD$15.00
Chilean and AUGM teacher/researcher: participant CLP$30.000 / USD$30.00
International teacher/researcher: attendee CLP$25.000 / USD$25.00
International teacher/researcher: participant CLP$40.000 / USD$40.00
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