The workshop will examine language instruction policies and linguistic rights in education through examples from the US, Canada, Switzerland, Turkey, and other countries. It will discuss how language policies influence education systems, including curriculum and potential discrimination. The workshop will be led by Dr. Francois Victor Tochon, a professor from the University of Wisconsin-Madison specializing in world language education, and will help participants understand approaches to researching and supporting students' language rights through education.
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Description of the subsystems of language and how teachers can draw on their knowledge of language and its subsystems to support ELs in their acquisition of language
Sociolinguistics and Language TeachingSheng Nuesca
Language teaching is connected with sociolinguistics in many ways. Different social factors affect language teaching and language learning.
Social factors such as situation, context, and social setting that has roles in language teaching. It describes the main factors which influence linguistic choices and explains how well contemporary teaching can take account of them.
Language is the ability to acquire and use complex systems of communication, particularly the human ability to do so, and a language is any specific example of such a system. The scientific study of language is called linguistics. Questions concerning the philosophy of language, such as whether words can represent experience, have been debated since Gorgias and Plato in Ancient Greece. Thinkers such as Rousseau have argued that language originated from emotions while others like Kant have held that it originated from rational and logical thought. 20th-century philosophers such as Wittgenstein argued that philosophy is really the study of language. Major figures in linguistics include Ferdinand de Saussure and Noam Chomsky.
Researchers as mediators: languaging and culturing when researching multiling...RMBorders
Andrews, J. and Fay, R. (University of Manchester), Researchers as mediators: languaging and culturing when researching multilingually. Paper presented at the 16th IALIC Conference, “Bridging across languages and cultures in everyday life: new roles for changing scenarios”, hosted by the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, November 25th-27th, 2016.
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The present study explores the contemporary discourse and challenges surrounding World Englishes, a multifaceted
field encompassing diverse English varieties spoken across the globe. This research adopts a qualitative and
descriptive approach to thoroughly investigate the dynamic nature of English in various linguistic and sociocultural
contexts. One focal point of the present inquiry is the examination of language policies and their implications for the
recognition and utilization of different English varieties in multicultural societies.
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The workshop will develop an understanding of a deeper
approach to language policies on the basis of examples in
the United States, Canada, Switzerland and Turkey, as
well as other countries, as relevant. As such, the
workshop will include an introduction to language
instructional policies and linguistic human rights in
education and their relation to curriculum & instruction.
Participants will examine teaching in a multilingual and
global society and explore the different dimensions of the
language used in the schools for instruction in different
countries during the globalization process: language
policies, curricula and their ideologies, the manifestation
of linguistic and cross-cultural discrimination.
About the speaker
Facilitator: Dr. Francois Victor Tochon is a Professor
in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison where he is heading
Graduate Studies in World Language Education. Prof. Tochon
has a Ph.D. in Curriculum & Instruction (Université Laval)
and a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology (Ottawa University),
and received Honorary Doctorates from two universities in
Argentina and Peru. Prof. Tochon worked on intercultural
issues related to bilingualism in various countries and
international language policies, looking for new ways to
organize language teaching and learning.
Wednesday 15 October
3.00-5.00pm
N54 (Bray Centre)
Room 2.02 Council Chamber
Dr. Francois Victor Tochon
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Deep Language Policy Research in Education
With Examples from U.S.A., Canada, and Switzerland
2 Hour Workshop
RESEARCH SEMINAR SERIES | Semester 2 2014
School of Languages and Linguistics
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PROGRAM:
PART I: LANGUAGE POLICY RESEARCH
- Exploring the core principles of the Language
Planning and Language Policy.
- Definitions: mother tongue, the semi-lingual
controversy, bilingualisms, pluralism, assimilationism,
personality vs territoriality principles, jurisdictional vs
unilingual territoriality.
- Research methods on Language Planning and Policy
(LPP).
- Vertical Case Studies and ethnography.
- Critical Auto-Ethnography.
- In-depth Inquiry Illustrations: Ebonic, English-Only
Movement.
PART II: FORMS OF LANGUAGE DISCRIMINATION
- Lingua franca, language status, linguicism, linguistic
genocide, linguistic human rights.
- American language policy, critical language program,
the issue of ‘otherness’.
- Illustrations: Accent Discrimination and American
Law; Language Discrimination at Work and British
Law; evolution of language rights in Turkey.
- Examples from Canada and Switzerland.
RESEARCH SEMINAR SERIES | Semester 2 2014
School of Languages and Linguistics
WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES:
The workshop will develop an understanding of a deeper approach to language policies on the basis of
examples in the United States, Canada, Switzerland and Turkey, as well as other countries, as relevant.
During and by the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:
• Define various trends in language policy and strategies that can be used in an Education context to research
and support bilingual students’ language rights;
• Understand the principles of deep language learning and how they can help connect the macro level of
language policies with the micro level of the classroom;
• Understand the role of interface of the language curriculum in the integration of language planning and
policies.