LINGUIST List 25.3085
Wed
Jul 30 2014
Calls: Socioling, Lang
Acquisition, Applied Ling, Discourse Analysis,
Ling & Lit/Canada
Editor for this issue:
Anna White <awhitelinguistlist.org>
Date: 28-Jul-2014
From: John Plews
<jplews
smu.ca>
Subject: Culture of Study
Abroad for Second Languages
E-mail this message to a
friend
Full Title: Culture of Study Abroad for Second
Languages
Date: 14-Jul-2015 - 17-Jul-2015
Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Contact Person: John Plews
Meeting Email:
< click here to access email >
Web Site:
http://www.smu.ca/conferences/culture-of-study-abroad.html
Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics;
Discourse Analysis; Language Acquisition; Ling
& Literature; Sociolinguistics
Call Deadline: 15-Oct-2014
Meeting Description:
This conference, organized in association with
the AILA-ReN on study abroad research, brings
together scholars and practitioners to explore
the culture of study and residence abroad and
their relationship to foreign language
learning.
Given the increasing mobility of students
across borders for the purpose of acquiring a
foreign language in another culture and gaining
cross-cultural experiences, as well as the
deepening academic interest in language
development and intercultural awareness in
study abroad, this conference focuses
specifically on the matter of culture -- or
cultures -- in foreign language study abroad
contexts. Here, 'culture' is understood within
a range of meanings from the language, customs,
institutions, attitudes, and behaviours of a
social group, to the products of human
creativity such as literature, music, painting,
film, and pop culture, to the appreciation and
consumption of these forms either in formal
education or through personal inquiry.
Focused on the Culture of Study Abroad, as well
as mindful of the conference location in Canada
and its increased inward student mobility
especially from Asia, the conference organizers
invite proposals for papers, panels, and
workshops that concern one or more of the
following questions:
1. What is the culture of study abroad and its
participants / stakeholders (teachers, hosts,
etc.)?
2. What is cultural learning on study abroad
and its relationship to language
acquisition?
3. What is done with culture after studying
abroad?
4. What are the cultural implications of French
exchanges in or from Canada?
5. What are the cultural interests of language
students moving from, to, and within Asia?
The first question focuses on community,
individual and group behaviour, social
networks, identity, and values, but also
home/foreign culture, cultural translation, and
generational, professional, social-economic,
institutional, and classroom cultures
(students, digital natives, instructors, host
families, the host public, etc.). It explores
how such groups and contexts emerge, function,
and impact personal, linguistic, and
intercultural development.
The second attends to student, teacher, and
host perceptions of material or behavioural
culture-to-be-learned as well as to pedagogy,
curriculum, and extra-curricular activities
that lead to cultural and intercultural
learning. Also of interest is the relation
between culture and linguistic development.
The third explores the afterlife of cultural
and language learning on study abroad
programming, when participants return to their
domestic universities or workplaces. Here the
focus is on how or whether participants
maintain linguistic gains, different
perspectives, and new subjectivities.
The fourth concerns the perceived hierarchy of
forms of French in study abroad choices, the
status of France in international French
language education, and the specificity of
Quebec and la francophonie.
The fifth inquires after opportunities and
challenges in the mobility of students from,
to, and within Asia. Topics here might include
third language learning in second language
contexts, access to linguistic, cultural, and
educational resources, and the explicit or
tacit association of study abroad with
institutional or national development and
immigration policies.
Plenary talks will be given by internationally
renowned study abroad scholars: Drs. Gary
Barkhuizen, Jane Jackson, Rosamond Mitchell,
Carmen Pérez-Vidal, and Martin Howard.
Call for Papers:
Proposals for 20-minute papers and panels may
take the form of scholarly discussions,
research studies, or professional reports of
program and classroom initiatives. Proposals
for workshops may explore innovative research,
methodological approaches and issues,
pedagogical activities, curriculum design,
administrative practices, or intra- and
inter-institutional policy development.
Abstracts for intended papers, panels, and
workshops are welcome in English or French.
Please submit an abstract of the proposal as a
Word document to the organizers at
(cosa
smu.ca). Abstracts for papers
should be no more than 300 words. Abstracts for
panels and workshops should comprise a general
outline no more than 300 words, followed by the
participants' abstracts. The body of the
message should contain the
presenter's/presenters' name(s), affiliation,
and the title of the paper, panel, or workshop.
For the sake of blind review the abstract must
not include the name(s) of the
presenter(s).
In the abstract clearly state the topic,
research question(s), and objectives. Abstracts
on empirical projects should identify the data
sources, procedures for data collection and
analysis, and actual or expected outcomes.
Proposals for workshops should also include a
plan of activities. All proposals should
indicate which of the five topic areas of the
conference they intend to address in
particular.
Deadline for abstract proposals: October 15,
2014.
All presenters will be invited to expand their
work for consideration for publication in one
of a series of journal special issues on the
above-mentioned topics related to the culture
of study abroad. Cooperating journals include
the Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics /
Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée and
the journal of Comparative and International
Education. Papers submitted for consideration
for publication will be subject to a separate
blind peer review and only those accepted will
be published. Please see further information
regarding the submission of work for
consideration for a journal special issue on
the conference website:
http://www.smu.ca/conferences/culture-of-study-abroad.html
For further information, please contact:
cosa
smu.ca
Page Updated: 30-Jul-2014