|Full Title:||26th International Conference on Foreign / Second Language Acquisition: Material Culture|
|Start Date:||22-May-2014 - 24-May-2014|
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|Meeting Description:||The Institute of English at the University of Silesia is pleased to announce the 26th International Conference on Foreign and Second Language Acquisition (ICSFLA). The main theme of the 26th ICSFLA is:
Material culture in studying second/foreign language acquisition and learning
The theme of the 26th conference is fairly new as a research theme; however it has already gained quite a lot of scholarly recognition in the second language acquisition (SLA) and multilingual language acquisition (MLA) research field. Through choosing this theme we would like to contribute to this quickly developing field. In the context of second language acquisition/learning, possible research areas of material culture issues (Aronin 2013) can refer to the material culture of learning: artifacts (books, authentic materials, realia) used and a historical perspective on their use. The research on material culture in SLA can investigate the learning and teaching environment of the FL classroom versus L2 acquisition. Also the way material objects reflect identities, beliefs and attitudes can be the focus of scholarly studies on material culture. Material culture artifacts (objects, events) and language as their integral element can be explored with a view to establishing their relationship. An important aspect of today's language learning and teaching embraces internet and virtual materiality which mark a significant area of language research and belong, undeniably, to material culture aspects of language research.
A couple of years ago we introduced an additional event held during the conference, namely a Ph. D. workshop. The response to it has been overwhelmingly positive over the past two years; thus, the upcoming conference will also offer this opportunity for new Ph.D. candidates to present their research projects. The lead facilitators will be Professor Aneta Pavlenko (Temple University) and Professor Danuta Gabryś-Barker (University of Silesia), but also other scholars experienced in the supervision of doctoral projects in SLA.
We are pleased to announce that the following scholars working in the field of material culture have expressed their willingness to present plenary papers at our conference:
Professor Larissa Aronin (Oranim Academic College of Education, Tivon /Trinity College, Dublin)
Professor Vivian Cook (University of Newcastle)
Professor Hanna Komorowska (University of Social Sciences and Humanities/University of Warsaw)
Professor Aneta Pavlenko (Temple University, Philadelphia)
Professor David Singleton (University of Pannonia, Hungary/Trinity College, Dublin)
|Linguistic Subfield:||Language Acquisition|
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