The Economist shares data on English’s role in global pop culture
February 5, 2022
A report recently published in The Economist suggests that the English language’s dominance in pop culture — more specifically, music — may be on the way out.
Data journalists at the magazine used information from Spotify to identify several trends in how local communities across the world listen to music — while English-language music remains quite popular worldwide,...
15-17 November 2021 Munich, Germany It has been known since antiquity that migration and the mobility of speakers as carriers of different languages and cultures play a significant role in the development of language areas. In the early modern period, for example, the expansion policy of the European colonial powers was intricately connected with the expansion of the corresponding speech...
Unpacking Discourses on Chineseness: The Cultural Politics of Language and Identity in Globalizing China
Edited by: Shuang Gao, Xuan Wang
Multilingual Matters, 9th Sep 2021, ISBN: 9781800413825
This book examines the complexity of Chineseness in China and the Chinese diaspora. Using critical sociolinguistic and discourse analytical approaches, the chapters reveal the power dynamics and ideologies underlying the varied ways Chineseness is performed, represented and contested. Together they...
Pedagogical Translanguaging: Theoretical, Methodological and Empirical Perspectives
Edited by: Päivi Juvonen, Marie Källkvist
Multilingual Matters, 30th Sp 2021, ISBN: 9781788927369
With increasing mobility of people across the world, there is a pressing need to develop evidence-based teaching practices that lead to high-quality education, which serves the needs of inclusive societies and social and epistemic justice. This book presents cutting-edge qualitative case-study...
Mehrsprachigkeit und Macht in der Migrationsgesellschaft
14. September 2021
Veranstaltung im Rahmen des Diskussionsforums Einwanderungsland Deutschland
Eine Sprache zu können, heißt nicht automatisch, dass man stolz darauf ist. Es kann passieren, dass in bestimmten Kontexten die Sprachkenntnis aus Scham verschwiegen wird. In Auseinandersetzungen zum Thema Mehrsprachigkeit in der Migrationsgesellschaft geht es immer wieder um diese Problematik, um...
Plurilingualism as a Catalyst for Creativity in Superdiverse Societies: A Systemic Analysis
CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS article
Front. Psychol., 22 December 2017 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02169
Post-industrial societies are characterized by a high degree of mobility which manifests itself through waves of migration and affects all knowledge domains and all aspects of both individual and collective lives. This situation presents challenges under the pressure of a powerfully...
Diciamolo in italiano, 8 aprile 2021
A Milano, capitale dell’itanglese, in metropolitana la segnaletica è bilingue, italiano e inglese, e lo stesso accade per la comunicazione sonora: a ogni fermata riecheggia l’annuncio bilingue che ripete in modo ossessivo: “Prossima fermata… next stop…”Nelle ore di punta l’utenza è formata più che altro da pendolari ammassati – almeno prima...
Séjours linguistiques à l’étranger : « partir pour un trimestre ou une année scolaire est toujours possible ! »
Source : VousNousIls.fr, 25 février 2021
Bien que la crise sanitaire ait compliqué l’organisation des séjours linguistiques, il est toujours possible pour un jeune d’effectuer une partie de son année scolaire à l’étranger. Explications avec Valérie Deltour, responsable de l’association ECI. Lire la suite...
Free Online Symposium - Language and Migration | Experience and Memory
USA, Princeton University (online)
April 19 - May 1, 2021
Detailed program schedule can be found here.
Language is a vital, but underexplored, factor in the lives of migrants, immigrants and refugees. It has a direct impact on the experiences and choices of individuals displaced by war, terror, or natural disasters and the decisions made by agents who provide (or...
LTRC 2021 - 42nd Language Testing Research Colloquium - Assessment in multilingual contexts: Models, practices, policies & challenges
14-18 June 2021, online
International Language Testing Association (ILTA)
For many individuals and communities in our changing and globalized world, multilingualism has become the norm. The theme of LTRC 2021, “Assessment in multilingual contexts” attempts to tackle the many issues and challenges that we face as assessors of language ability in multilingual environments. Assessing this...
Quelle: Forum der Kulturen Stuttgart
Wir laden Sie herzlich ein, am Freitag, 19. Februar 2021 via ZOOM am Auftakt zur Veranstaltungsreihe „Mehrsprachigkeit in der internationalen Stadt – Engagement von Migrantenorganisationen“ teilzunehmen!
Die Auftaktveranstaltung legt den Fokus auf die Migrantenorganisationen, die sich der Förderung der Herkunftssprache und somit auch der Förderung...
Les cultures au coeur de l'autre mondialisation (par Dominique Wolton)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3QkGkl6nIpw (présentation en une minute)
Il faut relire L'autre mondialisation, livre de Dominique Wolton publié en 2003. Comme si c'était aujourd'hui.
Flammarion, 2003, 211 pages, Version poche, Champs, Flammarion, 2004, Traductions étrangères
Avec l’ouverture des frontières, la télévision, la démocratisation des voyages et, plus récemment...
Encuentro Internacional de Plurilingüismo y Francofonía
19/11/2020, UdeA Noticias
El Colectivo de Plurilingüismo de la Asociación Colombo Francesa de Investigadores – COLIFRI invita a participar en el Primer Encuentro Internacional de Plurilingüismo y Francofonía. Observatorio latinoamericano de plurilingüismo.
El evento académico se realizará el 24 y 25 de noviembre de 2020, de manera virtual, y se desarrollarán tres ejes temáticos: la...
The International Language and Law Association (ILLA) is pleased to announce the 5th ILLA General Conference to be held at the University of Alicante (Spain) from 7 to 9 September 2021. As in the last two conferences—University of Freiburg 2017 and UCLA 2019, this General Conference will be preceded by other pre-conference academic events: the 2nd ILLA Colloquium for PhD Students (5 September...
Bilingüismo, Lenguas de herencia y Migración (BiUNED2020)
Entidad organizadora:UNED: Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia
URL: http://biuned2020.weebly.com/
Lugar de celebración:Online - Madrid, España
Fecha de inicio:12 de noviembre de 2020
Fecha de finalización:13 de noviembre de 2020
Circular Nº:1
Contacto:Secretaría de Lengua y Sociedad, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view...
Il plurilinguismo svizzero e la sfida dell'inglese
Riflessioni dal laboratorio elvetico a confronto con l’Europa
A cura di Anja Giudici, Rocco W. Ronza e Verio Pini
Formato 15 x 22 cm, 264 pagine
Armando Dado Editore, 978-88-8281-534-9
L’inglese fa ormai parte del paesaggio linguistico europeo e svizzero; si è affermato con rapidità sorprendente, dilagando tra i giovani, nel mondo accademico, economico e oltre in modo attrattivo e...
Plurilinguisme et développement durable. Enjeux, priorités et défis
GROUX Dominique, VOULGRE Emmanuelle, LAVOLLEE Danielle, LANGOUËT Gabriel (dir.)
L'Harmattan, mai 2020, ISBN : 978-2-343-20123-8
En quoi l'éducation au plurilinguisme peut-elle contribuer à la prise de conscience des problématiques environnementales et sociales ? En quoi les langues ont-elles un rôle à jouer dans cette perspective et comment peuvent-elles apporter une...
New book: The Struggle for a Multilingual Future - Youth and Education in Sri Lanka
Youth and Education in Sri Lanka
Christina P. Davis
Oxford Studies in the Anthropology of Language
Demonstrates the challenges of promoting peace and interethnic tolerance through multilingual language policies in post-civil war Sri Lanka
Explores how power inequalities and ethnic conflict are created and perpetuated in everyday social interactions
Advances studies in the ethnography of...
Fachtagung "Super, divers und mehrsprachig!" (21.2.2020)
Fachtagung anlässlich des Internationalen Tages der Muttersprache:
21. Februar 2020, 14-18 Uhr, VHS Ottakring
Lernende in Deutschkursen der Erwachsenenbildung sprechen viele Sprachen, das heißt sie besitzen reichhaltige sprachliche Repertoires, sie sind alle ganz verschieden und haben bewegende Biographien: Sie sind „superdivers“ und sie sind mehrsprachig. Warum spricht der...
International conference “Shared Language: Integration through Multilingualism”
02.10.2019
Registration opened today for an international conference entitled “Shared Language: Integration through Multilingualism”, which is being held in Tallinn on 14 & 15 November. The conference will bring together recognised experts from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Latvia, Denmark, Norway, Germany and Estonia to explore identity, education and labour market...
Korean language speakers should take pride in Konglish – it’s another wonderful example of linguistic diversity
The Conversation, 14 June 2019 - By Alexander Baratta, Lecturer in English Language, University of Manchester - Juggling Korean, English – and Konglish Stockphotomania/Shutterstock -
Konglish is the term used to describe the variety of English unique to Korea. It is just one of many varieties of the English language that exists far beyond the borders of so-called “inner circle” Englishes...
New book: Language and Tourism in Postcolonial Settings
Edited by: Angelika Mietzner, Anne Storch
Channel View Publications, Series Tourism and Cultural Change, 13 May 2019, ISBN 9781845416775This book focuses on perspectives from and on the global south, providing fresh data and analyses on languages in African, Caribbean, Middle-Eastern and Asian tourism contexts. It provides a critical perspective on tourism in postcolonial and neocolonial...
En quoi les langues ont-elles un rôle à jouer dans les sociétés mondialisées au sein d’une Europe fragilisée ?
Débat participatif
Trois organisations en didactique des langues, l'Acedle, l'Asdifle et Transit-Lingua organisent les 14 et 15 juin prochains un débat participatif ayant pour thème : "En quoi les langues ont-elles un rôle à jouer dans les sociétés mondialisées au sein d'une Europe fragilisée ?".
Le débat aura lieu à Paris, les 14 et 15 juin 2019 à la Maison de la Recherche...