The interplay between language policy and contemporary research : a sociolinguistic and discourse analysis of language ideologies in CLIL research

LANGUAGE POLICY FORUM 2021

Book of abstracts

Presentations will be available to watch from 9am BST on

Monday 24

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Thursday May 27th

All times in BST

9:00 – 10:00

^Welcome

Keynote

: Language Policy as Mitigation of Conflict in Multi-Ethnic Conflict Affected Societies: Reflections from Two Decades of

Southeast Asian Experiences*

Joseph Lo Bianco

University of Melbourne

10:00 – 10:30

^Break

10:30 – 11:30

Q&A session 1: The enactment and impact of language-in-education policy*

11:30 – 12:00

Networking session

12:00 – 13:00

^Lunch

13:00 – 14:00

Q&A session 2: Language policy and HEIs: reflection, engagement and lived experience

14:00 – 14:30

Networking session

Friday May 28th

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9:00 – 10:00 Keynote:

Language Policy in the UK: Challenges and Future Directions*

Wendy Ayres-Bennett

University of Cambridge

10:00 – 10:30

^Break

10:30 – 11:30

Q&A session 3: Managing multilingualism in language teaching & learning*

11:30 – 12:00

Networking session

12:00 – 13:00

^Lunch

13:00 – 14:00

Q&A session 4: Language Policies in NGOs and IGOs

14:00 – 14:30

Thanks & close

LANGUAGE POLICY FORUM 2021

PROGRAMME

Thursday 27

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& Friday 28

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May

*BSL interpreting

LANGUAGE POLICY FORUM 2021

So far, few studies have analysed how contemporary research can contribute to creating and maintaining a sense of order by endorsing certain visions on

language, education, and citizenship (Blommaert 1996; Heller & McElhinny 2017). In this contribution, I explore this issue with a critical analysis of

research on CLIL. Following the intensification of human and language mobility, CLIL has been constructed as a solution to fulfill the EU’s economic and political needs in a globalized economy. Alike the European institutions, research has enthusiastically supported CLIL since its inception. However, critics have recently pointed to significant biases in much research on CLIL –notably the omission of contextual variables, such as CLIL pupils’ socio-economic status (Bruton 2013). In my presentation, I focus on the historical context of

production of early research on CLIL. First, I analyse critically the EU language policy. Second, I analyse the interviews of a prominent CLIL scholar as well as one of his major contribution. In doing so, I show how CLIL emerged in the 1990s at the intersection of multiple dynamics between various stakeholders, language policy, and research. Finally, I discuss these findings in relation to language ideologies on multilingualism, as well as to epistemic power (Bourdieu 1984).

Blommaert J. (1996). ‘Language Planning as a Discourse on Language and Society: The Linguistic Ideology of a Scholarly Tradition’. Language problems and language planning, 20(3), 199-222.

Bourdieu P. (1984). Homo academicus. Les Editions de Minuit.

Bruton A. (2013). ‘CLIL: Some of the Reasons Why… and Why Not’, System, 41(3), 587-597.

Heller M. & McElhinny B. (2017). Language, Capitalism, Colonialism: Toward a Critical History. University of Toronto Press.

The interplay between language policy and contemporary research: A sociolinguistic and discourse analysis of language ideologies in research on CLIL

Caroline Staquet

Ghent University