17-18 OCTOBER 2024, VITORIA-GASTEIZ  |  Facultad de Letras, UPV/EHU

CALL FOR PAPERS

DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION EXTENDED UNTIL 1 JUNE
This conference invites researchers, educators, and practitioners to contribute to discussions on issues related to the learning of any additional language in primary education (6-12 years old). Additional language (AL) refers to “any language that a human being learns in addition to their mother tongue or tongues in the case of multilingually raised children” (Van den Branden, 2022, p. XII).
We invite contributions for oral presentations (20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for the question period).
The language of the conference is English.
Proposals should include:
  • ● Full Name(s) of Presenter(s) and Affiliation(s)
  • ● Title of Presentation
  • ● 300-word Abstract (no reference list needed)

IMPORTANT DATES:

Deadline for proposal submission: 1st June, 2024.

Notification of acceptance: Pending date.

*If you experience problems when sending the information, please send a message to laslab.ehu@gmail.com

Topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Collaborative work
  • Corrective feedback
  • Critical language pedagogy
  • Grammar learning
  • Extra-mural activities and their impact on additional language learning
  • Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)
  • Ethics and research with children
  • Individual differences affecting additional language learning (engagement, metalinguistic awareness, willingness to communicate, among others)
  • Innovations in the learning of additional languages
  • Multilingualism and Intercultural education
  • Primary school teacher education and training
  • Task-based language learning in primary school
Call for papers

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Accepted file types: pdf, Max. file size: 20 MB.
Proposals should be uploaded in pdf format and include:
· Full Name(s) of Presenter(s) and Affiliation(s)
· Title of Presentation
· 300-word Abstract (no reference list needed)
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The conference is organized by the Language and Speech (LASLAB) research group (www.laslab.org) of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). It is funded by a four-year research grant by the Basque Government (IT1426-22) and by the project ‘Balancing interaction and L2 grammar learning by children in an EFL context’ granted by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (PID2020-113630GB-I00).

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