LINGUIST List 33.3850
Tue Dec 13 2022
FYI: Call for Chapter Proposals: The Routledge Handbook of Language Learning in the New Global Context
Editor for this issue: Everett Green <everettlinguistlist.org>
Date: 03-Dec-2022
From: Chris Shei <c-c.shei
swansea.ac.uk>
Subject: Call for Chapter Proposals: The Routledge Handbook of Language Learning in the New Global Context
E-mail this message to a friend The Routledge Handbook of Language Learning in the New Global Context edited by Chris Shei and Der-lin Chao
The world has undergone some dramatic changes since 2019, first with the covid-19 pandemic killing more than six million people across the globe; then with the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 causing a dire shortage in food and energy and disruption to world economy, not to mention explicit threats of nuclear warfare made by authoritarian leaders. Among the political turmoil that causes life-threatening changes to people around the globe, language is by far the most important medium through which the changes are verbalized, conceptualized and dealt with is imperative for language teachers and textbook writers to be keenly aware of the influence of current affairs on language or reflected by it and design their materials and activities accordingly. Chapter titles suggested below are hypothetical please design your own title and content:
I. Context sensitive language learning
1. Politically responsive language teaching and learning
2. Modifying academic language learning structure as a reaction to global changes
3. Adaptive learning materials and learning methods
4. Media as a resource for dynamic language learning
5. Occasional language learning as a result of learning world affairs
6. Contrasting purposes, processes and results of language learning past and present
A particular concern in the changing global environment is the increasing use of language as a vehicle to embed ideology and political dogma in media discourse, social networks, government propaganda, and educational materials, especially in authoritarian states, where children learn patriotic thoughts and acquire nationalistic sentiments from textbooks provided by the government; whereas adults’ minds are deliberately conditioned by heavily censored pro-government media discourse and patriotic messages. Research efforts are sorely needed to investigate the process of how language assists in the formation of ideology and whether it is possible to reverse the effect of ideological imposition in the psychological constructs of individuals. One of the missions of this handbook is to explore the relationship between language learning and ideology and to make such findings available to the general public and academic circles for raising awareness and encouraging further research.
Please email an abstract of 200-300 words with proposed chapter title to Dr Chris Shei (C-C.Shei
Swansea.ac.uk ) including your name, title and institution. Deadline of receiving abstract in this round: 31 January 2023
Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
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