Il presente workshop si propone di approfondire gli aspetti teorici e pratici relativi all’insegnamento delle lingue minoritarie in contesti educativi, con particolare attenzione alla situazione italiana. Come è noto, la legge 482/1999 ha permesso l’introduzione delle lingue di minoranza storiche nel sistema educativo italiano, favorendone l’utilizzo sia come materie di insegnamento, sia come lingue veicolari per la didattica. Questo intervento legislativo ha avuto come conseguenza più evidente

The objective of this study day is to bring together experts in language teaching and learning to analyze the role of online interactions and exchanges in language learning. Foreign language learning has long been thought to be unique in the field of education, because of its inherently social nature; indeed, mastering a language requires using it for communication (Balboni, 2007; Wang, 2008). Numerous frameworks, including Swain’s Output Hypothesis and Long’s Interaction hypothesis, posit that

Focus: PhD students are the main target audience, but the courses are not restricted to them and are open to a professional audience that wants to keep up to date. Description: 9 courses are offered, 3 per area: AREA 1: FORMAL AND EXPERIMENTAL LINGUISTICS Course 1: Phonology and L2 spoken word recognition – Miquel Llompart (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona) Course 2: Relating syntactic variation, diachronic change and language acquisition – Esther Rinke (Goethe-Universität, Frankfu

Call for Papers: ETHL was conceived as a miniature summer school with four 2hr seminars led by leading theoretical historical linguists, Laura Grestenberger, Patrick Honeybone, Ranjan Sen, and George Walkden and a plenary talk by Theresa Biberauer. Alongside these sessions we will host a student 'snap-talk' session. We envision a snap-talk to be a theoretical version of a poster. Since ETHL is just a two day event we had thought of including a poster session but posters are not exactly am