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2018 Canadian Centre for Studies and Research on Bilingualism and Language Planning (CCERBAL) Conference

Translanguaging: Opportunities and Challenges in a Global World

May 3-4, 2018

University of Ottawa, Canada

 

Conference theme: Translanguaging, a construct referring to the complex use of more than one language as a (combined) resource, has captured the imagination of researchers, educators, and policy makers around the world. The role of translanguaging as a linguistic and social practice in family, community, educational and institutional contexts raises a number of stimulating and challenging questions that call for continued discussion. 

 

Proposals for oral presentations, posters, workshops, thematic symposia and round tables addressing the conference theme from multidisciplinary perspectives (educational, linguistic, social, policy, etc.) are welcome. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

 

• The meaning and evolution of the term translanguaging over time and across disciplines, and its links with concepts such as plurilingualism and biliteracy.

• The role of translanguaging in bilingual/immersion education, language teaching and learning, and language assessment.

• Translanguaging rules, norms and practices in institutional settings (e.g. bilingual universities, government institutions, etc.).

• Minority and heritage language maintenance and translanguaging.

• Translanguaging in bilingual and multilingual societies around the world.

• Language policy and translanguaging.

• Translanguaging and family language policy.

• Technology and translanguaging.

• Translanguaging and intercomprehension.

• Translanguaging and its interrelationship with other issues and phenomena, such as code-switching, language contact, diglossia and heteroglossia, mixed languages, language variation and change, language attrition, language shift, language loss, bi-/multilingual child language development, bi-/multilingualism across the lifespan, superdiversity, migration, identity, globalization, peace, etc.

 

Proposals will be accepted until December 15, 2017 online. 

 

View the full call for proposals at http://ccerbal.uottawa.ca/en/activities/conferences