8th International Scientific Conference Children and Languages Today

8th International Scientific Conference Children and Languages Today

Date : 01-Dec-2017 - 02-Dec-2017
Location : Osijek, Croatia
Contact Person : Ivana Moritz
Meeting Email : < click here to access email >
Web Site : http://dijeteijezik.foozos.hr

Linguistic Field(s) : Applied Linguistics ; Language Acquisition ; Ling & Literature ; Sociolinguistics ; Text/Corpus Linguistics

Call Deadline : 10-Jul-2017

Meeting Description :

The aim of the Conference is to bring together scientists and contributions from contemporary research on children’s literacy development in first and second/foreign/additional language. Recent findings point at multiple understandings of literacy, one of the core human competencies, for successful social participation. Therefore, literacy development from an early age should focus on a range of different literacy types. It should be emphasised that the term literacy also involves teaching children to read and to understand various text genres, not only with the aim of being informed, but also with the aim of aesthetically experiencing literary work.

We are happy to announce the following plenary speakers :

Janet Enever, Umeå University, Sweden
Milena Mileva Blažić, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Jelena KuvaÄ Kraljević, University of Zagreb, Croatia.

Early bird registration : 350 kn (50€) - before 31 October 2017
Standard registration : 450 kn (60€) - after 31 October 2017
Students : 100 kn (15€)

The conference fee should be paid to Faculty of Education in Osijek (for details see Conference website).

Call for Papers :

8th International Conference Children And Languages Today welcomes presentations focusing on the following areas of interest :

- Emergent and early literacy
- Functional literacy
- Cross-linguistic influences, linguistic landscape and literacy development
- Children’s literature and literacy development
- Media and literacy development

The suggested topics are not restrictive, but are meant to be motivating for exploration and study of children-languages-literacy relationship.
In order to address the challenges and issues related to literacy development in children we invite researchers from various theoretical and applied perspectives (e.g. cognitive linguistics, corpus linguistics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, first and second language acquisition, bilingualism, multilingualism, language assessment, language education, language policy and planning, etc.) to submit papers grounded in cognitive, socio-cultural, dynamic and emergent theories of literacy development. Furthermore, we invite contributions concentrating on the analysis of literary text and discourse, literary pragmatics and functional perspectives in literature. The Conference also encompasses themes discussing artistic value and usage of media materials in the context of new media, taking into account media effects, intermediality and interdisciplinary research. Also, we encourage submissions by researchers studying literacy development via multimodal texts as features of global digitalised culture.

Please send your abstract up to 300 words to childrenandlanguagesfoozos.hr no later than 15 June 2017. You will be notified of your abstract acceptance by 15 September 2017.

Official Conference languages are Croatian and English.
For further information visit Conference website : http://dijeteijezik.foozos.hr.

Contact : childrenandlangaugesfoozos.hr.