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thAPLIUT
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“Towards Sustainable Learning in LSP & LAP
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IUT Saint Omer, Université du Littoral, Côte D’Opale 28, 29 et 30 May, 2015
Call for papers
The desire to make learning “sustainable”, robust and resilient is at the heart of teaching in LSP / LAP (as we can see in recent European publications on lifelong learning). The English term “sustainability” implies the idea of a natural capital to be preserved, maintained, restored, managed or developed. The word “durabilité”
is a recent import into French, and may be applied to teaching where tools and resources are provided with the aim of rendering the result and the process of learning permanent.
The term sustainability calls to mind the idea of ecology, especially as described by Bronfenbrenner (1979, 1994). In its broadest sense, ecology applies to individuals within an ecosystem and the interactions between them, however language use and language learning being social actions, the question of exchanges between communities is also unavoidable. Thinking of LSP/LAP in terms of ecology has implications at all levels, from the individual and his or her interaction within language communities to the evolution of language itself (ecolinguistics), microsystems (schools, universities, families, etc.), macrosystems (culture, the economy, professional life, etc.).
Whereas the ideology of inbuilt obsolescence seems to be gaining ground in many areas of life, how can we think of learning and teaching languages in ways which will foster the development of durable skills so we can move towards inbuilt sustainability? This is the question which the 37th annual APLIUT conference will be exploring.
Papers in the area of sustainability and ecology may touch on the following topics, amongst others:
- How sustainability is represented by the various stakeholders within education and beyond.
- Learning environments (technology, social networks, language centres, etc.).
- Different approaches to language teaching (project-based learning, games, action-oriented approach, CLIL3, etc.).
- Different tools for assessment and certification, their roles and how they may be optimised in the context of sustainability.
- The consequences of travel, exchange programmes, etc. on sustainable learning.
- Preparing students for professional life.
- How interdisciplinarity may improve sustainability.
- The role of memory and memorisation.
- Self-access, autonomy, motivation and self-regulation as key concepts for sustainable learning.
- Following on from last year’s conference, the relationship between sustainability and success.
Please send proposals by email to Julie MORERE: [email protected] by completing the following form before 15 january 2015
After the conference, articles based on papers may be submitted (in English, French or other languages) to the journal Recherche et pratiques pédagogiques en langues de spécialité / Researching and Teaching
Languages for Specific Purposes http://apliut.revues.org/ (Vol. XXXV, n° 2, June 2016)
1 Association des professeurs de langues des instituts technologiques universitaires.
2 Languages for Specific Purposes & Languages for Academic Purposes.
3 Content and Language Integrated Learning.
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Composition of the reading committee for the 37
thAPLIUT conference:
Dan FROST – senior lecturer 11
esection (English), Université de Savoie Noëlla GAIGEOT – lecturer (English), Université du Maine
Marie-Annick MATTIOLI – senior lecturer (English), IUT Paris-Descartes, Université Paris Descartes
Julie MORERE (Présidente du Comité Scientifique) – senior lecturer (English), IUT Nantes, Université de Nantes
Aurélie PIRAT – doctor & lecturer (Spanish), Université de Lorraine
Linda TERRIER – senior lecturer (English), 11
esection, Université Toulouse 2-Le Mirail Jean-Luc WOLF – lecturer (English), IUT Schiltigheim-Louis Pasteur, Université de Strasbourg
Below (pages 3 & 4) form to be filled in for proposals:
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PROPOSAL FOR PAPERS 37
thAPLIUT Conference
“Towards Sustainable Learning in LSP & LAP”
IUT Saint Omer, Université du Littoral, Côte D’Opale 28, 29 & 30 May, 2015
Please send proposals by email to Julie MORERE: [email protected] by completing the following form before 15 january 2015
Replies will be sent out by the reading committee by 5 March, 2015
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