Please for information on the seventh 海角社区 Conference on Language Endangerment 'Language Endangerment: Language Contact and Language Change', taking place on 4th July 2017.
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Curriculum Design and Evaluation for Endangered Languages
6th听July 2016
Venue
, 7 West Road, 海角社区 CB3 9DT
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Organisers
(Department of French/ Peterhouse, 海角社区)
(Department of French, University of Bristol) damien.mooney@bristol.ac.uk
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Call for Papers
The school is often identified as an important context for the revitalization of endangered languages. Curriculum design and evaluation are therefore key factors in ensuring that such educational initiatives are successful. However, the precise sociocultural and political situation of endangered languages often preclude the simple replication of a curriculum developed for a language of wider communication for use within the endangered language classroom. This conference听invites papers that reflect on these issues: How should conventions designed for dominant languages be modified in the endangered language context? To what extent should curriculum design and evaluation be situated within the social and cultural practices of the endangered language speech community? How should the short- and long-term goals of curriculum design and evaluation be assessed in the context of endangered languages? Who is best placed to design and to evaluate the curriculum for endangered languages 鈥� the linguist or the community? Are the goals of an endangered language curriculum simply to obtain fluency or should they be broader in scope? How should the approaches used in the design and evaluation of an endangered language curriculum take account of contextual factors? What problems arise for curriculum design and evaluation in multidialectal and/or multinational contexts? What pedagogical materials are necessary for the successful implementation and evaluation of an听endangered language curriculum?
Abstracts: (200 words maximum) to be submitted via email to the organisers by April 4th 2016
Paper format: 20 minutes + 10 minutes for questions
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Registration
. The standard fee is 拢40 with a reduced fee of 拢20 for students (proof of student status will need to be presented). This includes lunches and refreshments at the conference.
Please note that all bookings and payment have to be made via this website. We regret that there is no provision for delegates to pay on the day.听
Bookings that are not accompanied by payment will not be registered on the system.
The programme is available to download .
A booklet containing the abstracts for all of the papers to be given at the conference is available .
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Accommodation
The organisers are unable to arrange or help book accommodation. However, the following websites may be useful:
