Category: Calls for Papers
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Call for Papers: Language and Super-diversity
Language and Super-diversity: Explorations and interrogations University of Jyväskylä, Finland (June 5-7, 2013) The annual conference organised by the University of Jyväskylä Department of Languages and Centre for Applied Language Studies (who will be joined this year by the International Consortium on Language and Super-diversity [link no longer active]) will bring together scholars from a variety of linguistic fields (e.g. linguistics, sociolinguistics, sociology…
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Researching Multilingually
On May 23rd, I had the privilege of attending the Researching Multilingually seminar that was hosted by The University of Manchester, where I presented a brief talk about the various alternatives available for representing bilingual data in research output. In a nutshell, my argument was that there are many different considerations (intentionalities) that need to…
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Call for papers: 2013 TESOL International Convention
2013 TESOL International Convention Harmonizing Language, Heritage, and Cultures The 2013 TESOL International Convention will be held in Dallas, Texas on 20-23 March 2013. According to the convention organisers, this will offer an opportunity for: …TESOL professionals from around the world to consider how we as educators, working with learners from various cultural, linguistic, ethnic,…
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Cross-curricular Approaches to Language Education
Call for Papers The 15th International Conference on Applied Linguistics, organised by the Greek Applied Linguistics Association (GALA), will be held in Thessaloniki, Greece, on 22-25 November 2012. The overarching theme for this conference is Cross-curricular Approaches to Language Education, and the organisers are inviting papers on the following topics: Content-based Education Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) Immersion Education…
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Call for papers: Resistance to the known in FLE
Update: Published! It gives me great pleasure to announce that Resistance to the Known, the edited volume that was advertised in the call for papers below, has now been published by Macmillan Palgrave. You can read more about the book, which contains a chapter by me, here. The content that follows is no longer current, but…
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Complexity studies in Applied Linguistics
Description of a special issue on Complex Systems Theory and Applied Linguistics / Language Education.
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“Researching Multilingually” Seminar
I am very happy to announce that I will be taking part at the AHRC-funded “Researching Multilingually” seminar, which will be held in Manchester on 22nd – 23rd May 2012. The paper I will present is titled Representational Positions in Bilingual Research, and it draws on some methodological insights from my doctoral dissertation. My research…
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Call for Abstracts (TESOL Q): Plurilingualism in TESOL
Articles that address English education in the following contexts are invited for a special issue of TESOL Quarterly, entitled Plurilingualism in TESOL. Teachers’ and students’ linguistic repertoires and classroom practices that shape plurilingual competence Teachers’ background knowledge regarding language learning and corresponding ability to meet the needs of plurilingual students Educational language policies that support plurilingualism You…