Evento em Southampton, UK: Multilingual Theory and Practice in Applied Linguistics”

Date: 6 September, 2012 – 8 September, 2012

The conference is being organised by the Centre for Applied Language Research, University of Southampton and Modern Languages, University of Southampton.

Programme :

The final programme is now available to view in pdf format by clicking here

Plenary Speakers :

Anna Mauranen, University of Helsinki
Aneta Pavlenko, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA
Rosemarie Tracy, University of Mannheim, Germany

Invited Colloquia :

Language development of bilingual / heritage speakers
Led by Professor Virginia Gathercole, Bangor University

• The development of multilingual competence in Basque, Spanish and English
  Jasone Cenoz, University of the Basque Country
• Language development in sequential bilingual children : A cross-linguistic study
  Theo Marinis, University of Reading
• Effects of language exposure in the grammatical development of bilinguals
  Rocío Pérez Tattam, Bangor University
• Applying processability theory to the development of two languages
  Gisela Håkansson, Lund University
• Emergentism and the construction of a system incorporating two languages
  Virginia C. Mueller Gathercole, Bangor University

Multilingualism in the Community : promoting a community-based approach to research on linguistic diversity and contact
Led by Professor Li Wei, Birkbeck College, University of London

• The impact of linguistic super-diversity in the urban workplace on language practices and policy : a study of the City of Southampton
  Clare Mar-Molinero and Linda Cadier, University of Southampton
• Heteroglossia in a Panjabi complementary school : a critque of ‘community’
  Angela Creese, Adrian Blackledge and Jaspreet Kaur Takhi
• Visions of community : How does bilingual education contribute to shaping views of society?
  Gabriele Budach
• Complementary Schools in Action : netowrking for language development in east London
  Raymonde Sneddon
• Researching funds of knowledge with familites, pupils and teachers in a multilingual city in the north of England
  Jean Conteh and Saiqa Riasat
• On Not Taking Language Inequality for Granted : Hymesian Traces in an Ethnographic Monitoring of South Africa’s Multilingual Language Policy
  Nancy Hornberger
• Discussants
  Nancy Hornberger

Current theory and practice in translation and interpreting
Led by Prof Jeremy Munday, University of Leeds

• Video interpreting
  Sabine Braun, University of Surrey
• Interpreter positioning : the concept of role-sapce in signed-spoken language interpreting
  Peter Llewellyn-Jones, University of Leeds and Sign Languages International
• Take turns to speak – A conversation analysis of interpreter-mediated GP consultations and its implications for medical education
  Li Shuangyu, King’s College London
• Translation studies and applied linguistics
  Jeremy Munday, University of Leeds
• Terminology, translation and comparable corpora
  Serge Sharoff, University of Leeds

BAAL SIGs :

UK Linguistic Ethnography Forum
Corpus Linguistics
Gender and Language
Intercultural Communication
Language in Africa
Language Learning and Teaching
Testing, Evaluation and Assessment
Vocabulary studies
Multimodality