Translation and Language Teaching

Translation and Language Teaching
Short Title : TLT 2017

Date : 07-Sep-2017 - 08-Sep-2017
Location : Maribor, Slovenia
Contact Person : Melita Koletnik
Meeting Email : < click here to access email >
Web Site : http://tlt2017.weebly.com/

Linguistic Field(s) : Applied Linguistics ; Translation

Call Deadline : 20-May-2017

Meeting Description :

The international conference on Translation and Language Teaching, which will be held in the Maribor, Slovenia from 7-8 September 2017, attempts to continue the dialogue between Translation Studies and Foreign Language Didactics with a view to providing a forum for international researchers and practitioners from both disciplines.

Keynote Speakers :

Nike KocijanÄ iÄ Pokorn, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Dorothy Kelly, University of Granada, Spain

2nd Call for Papers :

In the past, translation has always occupied a rather extreme and contentious role in language education.The reasons underpinning its rejection have not always been pedagogic or linguistic ; rather, they seem to be a reaction provoked by a number of disparate motives and reasons, including economic and ethno-centric forces. In recent years, however, an increasing number of pleas (for example, Cook 2010, Carreres and Noriega-Sanches 2011, Kerr 2014) have been made for a more balanced examination of this role and for contributions that would objectively assess the effects of translation in real-life language classroom settings.

This plea has provoked a flurry of new research attempting to re-establish the relative merits of translation in foreign language teaching, e.g. as a legitimate and effective tool for learning, teaching and assessing foreign languages (Laviosa 2014), a complex activity associated with high degrees of student satisfaction (Pym et al 2014), and as a task promoting contrastive analysis between the languages (Leonardi 2010), to name but a few.

Drawing upon convergences between the two disciplines that have emerged as a result of recent research, the conference attempts to continue the dialogue between Translation Studies and Foreign Language Didactics with a view to providing a forum for international researchers and practitioners from both disciplines.

The topics of the conference include, but are not limited to, the following :

- Definition(s) of translation
- Translanguaging
- Plurilingualism and mediation
- Language competence
- Translation competence
- Language curricula
- Translation and language learning
- Translation and language teaching
- Translation in FLT/SLT contexts
- Translation in other learning contexts
- Language teaching in translator and interpreter training
- Language teaching in general language instruction
- Translation and language teaching in academia
- Didactic approaches in language teaching

As an additional way of encouraging student research, the conference will be hosting a Student Poster Session.

Important Dates :

Abstract Submission Closes : deadline extended to 20 May
Acceptance Notification / Registration Opens : 1 June 2017
Registration Closes : 15 August 2017

The working language of the conference is English. More information is available at http://tlt2017.weebly.com/ and tlt2017um.si