For the academics: Call for papers on Minority Language Education
Papers are solicited for inclusion in a panel for the 7th International Pragmatic Conference, Budapest 9-14 July 2000.
This panel will address linguistic and pedagogical issues associated with efforts to promote and revitalize threatened minority language through teaching those languages in school settings. Papers are sought
that link issues of minority language policy and/or ideology with empirical studies of educational practices in minority language settings. Possible topics could include (but are not limited to): issues of cultural authenticity in minority language classrooms; bilingual vs. immersion methods; issues of standardization; integration of children from outside the minority cultural group; standards of testing and evaluation; patterns of codeswitching in the classroom (and other school settings); student accommodation or resistance to school practices; the construction and acceptance of neologisms (school register) in the minority language; differential uses of minority vs. dominant languages in classroom management; community involvement in minority language schooling.
Information about the conference can be found at: http://ipra-www.uia.ac.be/ipra/
For inquiries about possible topics, please contact Alexandra Jaffe, below.
Abstracts and all conference registration forms must be sent by November 1 to:
Alexandra Jaffe
Department of Anthropology and Sociology
University of Southern Mississippi
Box 5074
Hattiesburg MS 39406
tel. (601) 266-6193; fax (601) 266-6373
email: alexandra.jaffe@usm.edu
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