Tag: language acquisition
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13th International Conference of the Association for Language Awareness (ALA 2016)
ALA 2016 The 13th International Conference of the Association for Language Awareness (ALA 2016) is to be held at the Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (Vienna) on 19-22 July 2016. The topic of this year’s conference is Languages for Life: Educational, Professional and Social Contexts. Plenaries Confirmed plenary speakers include: Veronika Koller (Lancaster University) Almut Köster (Vienna University of Economics and Business) Aneta Pavlenko (Temple…
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Call for papers: Second Language Acquisition: Implications for language sciences (EUROSLA 25)
The 25th Annual Conference of the European Second Language Association (EUROSLA 25) will take place on 27th – 29th August 2015 at Aix-Marisaille University (France). The conference is organised by the Laboratoire Parole et Langage, in association with the Département de français langue étrangère of the Aix-Marseille University). The general theme of the Conference is “Second Language Acquisition:…
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Rethinking Language, Diversity and Education
For additional content on language, diversity and education, you may also want to read about the volume I am editing, Challenging Boundaries in Language Education. The Rethinking Language, Diversity and Education conference will take place on 28-31 May 2015 in Rhodes, Greece. The conference, which is co-organised by the University of Toronto and the University of the Aegean, aims to…
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Call for Papers: “English Language & Literature Studies: Tradition and Transformation (ELLSTAT)”
The 5th International Conference of the English Department, Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade, entitled English Language and Literature Studies: Tradition and Transformation (ELLSTAT) will take place on the 23rd and 24th October 2015 in Belgrade. The aim of the conference is “to promote exchange of ideas across different areas and theoretical frameworks of English linguistics and anglophone literary/cultural studies…
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Call for papers: Faces of English: Theory, Practice and Pedagogy
The Centre for Applied English Studies at Hong Kong University will be hosting an international conference titled “Faces of English: Theory, Practice and Pedagogy” in Hong Kong on 11-13 June 2015. According to the conference organisers, the meeting aims to highlight “the rich diversity of approaches to understanding English and the range of contexts in…
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Can a child left in the wild develop a new language on her own?
Rich linguistic input is necessary for first language acquisition. But what happens when it’s not there?
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[Call for papers] International Symposium on Bilingualism
The 10th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB) will take place on 20-24 May 2015 at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA. The symposium will focus on the cognitive, linguistic, educational and sociolinguistic aspects of multilingualism.
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Universal Biases on Phonological Acquisition and Processing [Call for papers]
Update (June 2015) This is a post advertising an academic event that took place in 2015. The content is no longer current, and is retained here for archival purposes only. If you’d like to receive updates on upcoming ELT and linguistics events, you may want to consider subscribing to this blog.
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Indigenous children’s language [Special Issue]
This post describes a special issue in First Language, which looks into the ways that minority languages are acquired and preserved, and how they evolve through children’s language.