19-20 February 2010
London
Plurilingual and Pluricultural Education: Focus on ‘Languages of the Wider World’
This international conference is organised jointly by:
- SOAS-UCL Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning ‘Languages of the Wider World’ (LWW CETL) in London, UK
- ‘Pluralité des Langues et des Identités en Didactique: Acquisition, Médiations’ (PLIDAM) - a research group at the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO) in Paris, France
This conference will bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss plurilingual and pluricultural education with a particular focus on ‘languages of the wider world’: the languages of Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Eastern Europe, Scandinavia and the Netherlands. Plurilingualism refers to the capacity of individuals to communicate in more than one language or dialect. Individuals may be plurilingual from learning languages through formal education or from their experiences in multilingual contexts.
Participants at this conference will
define, analyse and explore new directions and paradigms for
plurilingual and pluricultural education. The conference will also
provide opportunities for further research and collaboration.
The keynote speakers
confirmed thus far are Professor Jim Cummins (OISE, Ontario, Canada)
and Professor Claire Kramsch (University of Berkeley, California, USA).
Call for papers
Proposals are invited for papers in any area of pluringual and pluricultural education, and those under the following themes would be particularly welcome:
- Plurilingualism, multilingualism, language policies and planning
- Plurilingualism, identity and citizenship
- Language and intercultural education and innovation
To
submit a proposal, please download the following file write an abstract
of no more than 250 words and send it to
Responses from the conference organisers will be sent by e-mail by 7th December 2009. The working language of the conference will be English and, unfortunately, we are not able to provide interpreting facilities.
Conference Scientific Committee
From
the LWW-CETL (SOAS-UCL, London, UK): Professor Itesh Sachdev (Chair),
Michalis Sivvas, Joanne Eastlake, Dr Noriko Iwasaki, Jane Fenoulhet, Dr
Christine Hoffmann
From "PLIDAM" (INALCO, Paris, France): Dr Pierre
Martinez, Dr Joël Bellassen, Dr Patrick Maurus, Dr Thomas Szende, Dr
Geneviève Zarate, Dr George Alao