Agenda

20/06/2012 United Kingdom

'Connecting Cultures' and internationalisation through Commonwealth Foreign Languages (CFL)

‘Connecting Cultures’ is the Commonwealth theme for the year 2012. Language is a crucial element in constructing/connecting cultures, and the seminar will discuss the provision for learning and teaching of languages whose use transcends national boundaries.

Intercultural dimensions of language will be foregrounded in the discussions. A key anticipated outcome of the event will be the impact on policy at institutional, national or Commonwealth levels with specific reference to internationalisation strategies in the university/tertiary sector.

20/06/2012 France

Conférence: Langages - Cultures - Sociétés, interrogations didactiques

Le laboratoire de didactique des langues, des textes et des cultures (DILTEC, EA 2288) arrive à l’heure d’un bilan. A cette occasion, et au cours d’une réunion internationale à Paris les 20, 21 et 22 juin 2012, ses membres souhaitent mettre en regard les résultats de leurs travaux avec ceux obtenus dans d’autres équipes et s’interroger ainsi sur les perspectives de recherche qui se dessinent dans le champ de la didactique des langues.
En raison de la pluralité des domaines et des thèmes qui font l’objet des recherches de l’équipe, ce colloque s’organisera autour de quatre thèmes qui, par leurs orientations différentes et leurs recoupements partiels suscitent une réflexion sur les liens entre la didactique des langues et ses disciplines de référence. La compréhension des objets de la didactique des langues impose en effet un travail qui se situe à l’intersection de différentes disciplines qui, comme, la linguistique, la sociologie, la littérature, l’anthropologie, la psychologie, pour ne donner que quelques exemples, contribuent à éclairer les interrogations didactiques.

20/06/2012 Netherlands

The 13th International Conference on Language and Social Psychology (ICLASP)

This conference will bring together scholars from different disciplines who explore language and communication in their social contexts using both quantitative and qualitative methods. The focus is mainly on aspects such as identities, perceptions, attitudes, beliefs, values, motivations, norms, behaviour, policies and so on in their individual and intergroup contexts. Topics covered in previous conferences include language and health communication; language learning; bilingualism & multilingualism; language and discrimination, interpersonal, intercultural, interethnic and intergroup communication; nonverbal communication; miscommunication and communication failure; and so on.

20/06/2012 Luxembourg

Conference: Multilingualism – Chance and Challenge

The fourth international conference on challenges and opportunities of multilingualism in the fields of school and teacher training will be held from 20 to 22 June 2012 at the University of Luxembourg.

19/06/2012 Belgium

LT-Innovate Summit

On 19 June 2012, Brussels will become a meeting point for LT-Innovate members and representatives from the Language Technology Industry to network, discuss needs, strategies, innovation opportunities and business trends.

The LT-Innovate Summit will bring together all major players involved in Language Technology (LT) such as policy makers, vendors and corporates, experts and investors, enhancing the visibility of the fragmented European LT landscape and establishing LT as a key enabling technology for Europe.

18/06/2012 Czech Republic

Training Institute in Multilingualism Research

Following the success of LINEE Training Institutes in Brussels (2007), Bolzano (2008) and Prague (2009, 2010 and 2011), doctoral students researching various aspects of multilingualism in Europe will once again meet for the exchange of ideas and training. They will be provided with the opportunity for interaction with renowned resource persons, both local and from abroad, in a number of different settings (lecture and seminar settings, poster sessions, informal encounters, meals). Prague, a city known in particular for its aesthetic value, has been a symbol of intellectual and cultural engagement and language studies for years. Since 1989, it has been gradually developing into a site of emerging multilingualism, the experience of which participants in the Training Institute are invited to share.

18/06/2012 Netherlands

33rd TABU Dag

The annual TABU Dag is an international linguistics conference organized at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Researchers, students and other interested people are warmly invited to participate! The conference offers excellent opportunities to meet other linguists and discuss current research in several areas of linguistics. Postgraduate students and postdoctoral researchers in particular are encouraged to present their work.

18/06/2012 Scotland

Translation Research Summer School

The Translation Research Summer School (TRSS) is a joint initiative of three British universities (University of Manchester, University of Edinburgh, and University College London) and the Hong Kong Baptist University. Every year TRSS organizes summer schools in the UK and in Hong Kong, offering intensive research training in translation and intercultural studies for prospective researchers in the field.

15/06/2012 France

The translation and reception of multilingual films

During the conference, the following issues will be discussed:

- reasons for, and implications of, multilingualism
- the aesthetics of multilingual film and theatre performance
- the ethics of representation and of multilingual transfer
- translation strategies
- translators and interpreters in films and on stage
- reception and audio-visual cognitive processing by the audience
- accessibility to multilingual films and theatrical productions
- technologies for multilingual translation.

14/06/2012 Denmark

The 11th Nordic Conference on Bilingualism

The University of Copenhagen and the Department of Education, Aarhus University invite you to participate in the 11th Nordic Conference on Bilingualism. The main theme of the conference will be bilingualism and globalization. The official languages of the conference will be the Scandinavian languages and English. During the conference a Nordic Association for the Study of Poly-lingualism will be founded.

13/06/2012 Belgium

Deadline: Call for paper - Meertaligheid in België, Nederland en Europa anno 2012: Verwerving, didactiek en taalbeleid

In onze steeds verder globaliserende maatschappij neemt meertaligheid alsmaar aan belang toe. Het mag dan ook niet verbazen dat nationale en lokale overheden in navolging van de Europese Unie meertaligheid als een prioritair aandachtspunt beschouwen en dat er dan ook overal in Europa initiatieven en projecten floreren om het verwerven van meertaligheid te stimuleren. In de Franstalige Gemeenschap van België bieden er bij voorbeeld steeds meer scholen immersieonderwijs aan in het Engels, in het Nederlands of in het Duits.
Toch roept het begrip « meertaligheid » veel vragen op. In deze studiedag staan de volgende vier aspecten van meertaligheid centraal:
-              Meertaligheid en tweede-/vreemdetaalverwerving (inclusief receptieve meertaligheid);
-              Meertaligheid en tweede-/vreemdetaaldidactiek en -onderwijs;
-              Meertaligheid en vertalen, tolken, terminologie, vaktalen;
-              Meertaligheid en taalbeleid.  

13/06/2012 Spain

Discourse of Identity

Discourses frame identity, that is, linguistic processes and other strategies embedded in social practices shape the way individuals and groups (re)create themselves. Language and society are central to identity formation and expression. Our aim is to turn to a multi- and inter- disciplinary approach from fields such as linguistics, literature, sociology, psychology, history, and gender studies, among others, in order to render a comprehensive analysis of this complex issue – the drama of identity.

10/06/2012 Turkey

International Symposium on Languages and Communication; Research Trends and Challenges

The Organizing Committee is pleased to invite you to participate in the International Symposium on Language and Communication: Research trends and challenges (ISLC). ISLC is an international symposium which focuses on the research trends and challenges in the field of interdisciplinary language, literature, history and communication studies at both national and international levels, and their consequences for the theory, policy and practice of a variety of fields such as education, economy, sociology, and all other related fields.

08/06/2012 Finland

FIPLV World Congress: Innovation, Inspiration and Language Learning

The Congress will focus on the theme of the Innovation, Inspiration and Language Learning including topics and aspects of promoting multilingualism in schools, learning languages in a virtual world and the role of the brain in language learning. The two-day congress program provides language teachers with the opportunity to hear about what the world can learn from the educational change in Finland, how to learn languages in a virtual world, how to use Second Life, tablets or smart boards in language learning and to meet colleagues from all over the world.

07/06/2012 France

Colloque Acedle 2012 - Recherches en didactique des langues - Apprendre les langues autrement

La didactique des langues est un domaine pluriel, où se côtoient des recherches diversement situées, qui interrogent des terrains variés, des objets distincts, voisins ou complémentaires, selon des approches qui privilégient différentes orientations.

Les colloques Acedle sont conçus comme des lieux de débat et de rencontre, où toutes ces sensibilités peuvent trouver un lieu d'expression et de confrontation, où les chercheurs peuvent échanger sur leurs travaux en cours à la lumière des avancées dans des secteurs proches.

Dans un contexte où les frontières se font de plus en plus perméables et où le développement exponentiel des technologies de l'information et de la communication ont modifié et diversifié le paysage de la formation en langue, le colloque de Nantes proposera un coup de projecteur sur un axe dédié aux relations entre langue et entreprise dans leurs dimensions politiques, sociales, linguistiques et didactiques.