Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Programme

 Joint AILA-ReN & Langscape Symposium
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin – 13 December, 2013

“Interactions of Sociocultural Theory and Emergentism in SLA and Language Education Studies – Conceptual and Interdisciplinary Concerns”

 

9:00-9:30

OPENING

9:30-10:15

Jean-Paul Narcy-Combes & Marie-Françoise Narcy-Combes

Emergentism, Dynamic-systems theory and Multiliteracies

William O’Grady (video)

Outline of an Emergentist Theory of Linguistic Development

José Medina-Suárez

The acquisition of tense and verb agreement through different perspectives on language acquistion theory

10:15-10:45

COFFEE / TEA BREAK

10:45-12:15

Olga Esteve

Ecology in educational research

Nils Dörholt

Belief Stability and Change as On-going Internalization Processes of Dynamic Systems

Ebru Koç

Development of Teacher Efficacy Scale for English Language Teachers and Investigating the Self-efficacy beliefs of Novice Teachers

12:15-12:30

WRAP-UP MORNING SESSIONS

12:30-14:00

LUNCH BREAK

14:00-15:30

Itesh Sachdev & Anne Pauwels & Howard Giles

 

A multifactor dynamic model of multilingual communication

Heather Hilton

Methodological considerations in complex systems/ emergence research

Frédérique Moinet

S’entraîner à interagir à l’oral sur une plateforme numérique binationale: déclics attendus et inattendus

Gregory Miras

(in absence)

About the difficulty of being a researcher in a multi-inter-transdisciplinary field: roadmap of a French PhD student

15:30-16:00

COFFEE / TEA BREAK

16:00-16:30

WRAP-UP & OPEN FLOOR

16:30-17:00

Jean-Paul Narcy-Combes: Brisbane preview and outlook (ReN-Symposium etc.)

Note on languages: Langscape endorses multilingualism in communication and research; while most papers will be submitted in English, all languages are welcome during the workshop sessions.