Full Title: Teaching and Learning English as a Foreign Language in Educational Settings: Issues and Specificities
Short Title: TEACHLEng 2023

Date: 26-Jun-2024 - 28-Jul-2024
Location: PARIS Sorbonne-Nouvelle, France
Contact Person: Marie-Claire Lemarchand-Chauvin
Meeting Email: [email protected]
Web Site: https://ardaa2024.sciencesconf.org/

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition
Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 10-Sep-2023

Meeting Description:

The starting point for the conference, "Teaching and Learning English as a Foreign Language in Educational Settings: Issues and Specificities", will be the study of language and education policies around the world so as to position EFL teaching and learning in France. This particular interest arises because of a competition between two hegemonies: the teaching of French as a foreign language and the teaching of English as a foreign language. This rivalry has resulted in the development of teaching practices and traditions in France that were not fully oriented towards the specifities of English. It is therefore necessary to clarifiy the meaning of "English didactics" as well as its place in the world.

First, the notion of “English didactics” makes one think of English Learning/Teaching for the purposes of communication, in the context of the academic discipline, English and Anglophone studies. One of the goals of this conference is to establish what we mean when we say “English” today, since the word could refer to English as a second language, English as a foreign language, English as an academic language, English for specific purposes, or English as a lingua franca.

One must also consider the difference between teaching English and teaching through English (intensive courses, CLIL programs, the internationalization of certain degree programs, etc.). This discipline could be interpreted as belonging to the field of the didactics of languages and cultures (Galisson & Puren, 1999; Galisson, 2002), a discipline centered around observation, analysis, interpretation and intervention in the interconnected environments, practices and processes involved in teaching and learning.

One may also consider English didactics as a unique branch within the field of language didactics, that can be divided into several sub-fields: linguistics (Bailly, 1998), history (Puren, 1988), praxeology (Galisson & Puren, 1999; Bailly, 1998; Narcy-Combes, 2005), among others. It may also fall within the field of the didactics of plurilingualism (Huver & Macaire, 2021; Candelier, 2008; Moore, 2006; Macaire et al., 2003), which focuses on the language user’s linguistic and communicative repertoire when exchanging with the “other,” as well as on the intercultural dimension in which the native speaker is not the only point of reference.

English didactics therefore appears as a complex domain, requiring further reflection. To summarize, this conference aims to understand and define the peculiarities of English didactics and its place in today’s globalized world.

This conference will be an opportunity to analyze the epistemology of the field, in relation to its historical evolution and other types of didactics (French and other foreign languages, plurilingualism). Also, it will offer a chance to study common objects of research (the most salient, those which require further development, and those which have become obsolete), the teaching-learning environments including tools and resources (pedagogical practices, classroom contexts, etc.), and lastly, methodological questions and the relationship between research, fieldwork, and training.

2nd Call for Papers:

Submission Guidelines

Languages: English (preferred) and French (communications in French should be accompanied by slides in English)
Format: 300-word abstracts (excluding bibliographical references)
New deadline: 10 September 2023
Notification of acceptance: 15 December 2023
Abstract submission: https://ardaa2024.sciencesconf.org/ => “Submission”

Anonymization: make sure you leave no trace of your identity anywhere in your abstract (may it be in your text or in your files, if applicable)
A special session for POSTERS will be organised. PHD students (in the process or having completed) are strongly encouraged to participate. A prize will be given to the poster receiving the most votes.

Registration fees:
- ARDAA members & partners: €40 until 30 March 2024 (early-bird), then €50 until 1st June 2024
- Other participants: €80 until 30 March 2024 (early-bird), then €100 until 1st June 2024