Name: Symposium: Sociocultural Approaches to Additional Language Learning/Teaching, Research and Teacher Education: Bridging the Gap between Practice and Theory
Start: 2015-10-14T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2015-10-16T20:00:00+02:00
Location: Universitat Pompeu Fabra

About the event

Keywords:: education; learning; practice; reasearch; Teaching; theory

Despite the many theoretical and research contributions in the field of additional language acquisition and learning, the transfer of both into teaching practice is still unsatisfactory. Thus, the gap between the academic field and classroom practice remains a controversial issue both in education in general and in the teaching/learning of additional languages in particular.

 It might be argued that the academic field usually takes the initiative by defining the problems and situations to be investigated. Those at the centre of the research (e.g teachers and learners) cannot usually play an active role in the process, as they are rarely given the chance to decide about such problems. Furthermore, more often than not, the results of the research do not directly revert in the improvement of teaching nor are they adequately disseminated. This becomes all the more surprising, if we consider that teachers and learners should be those who most directly benefit from such results

 Drawing upon the dialectic relationship between theory/research and practice proposed by Vygotsky, according to which both are inherently intertwined and equally necessary to knowledge, the symposium aims to offer a forum of discussion and reflection around relationship between theory and practice in teaching/learning and research in additional languages.

 The symposium is addressed to professionals in the field of additional languages learning, teaching and research with a common interest in bridging the gap between practice and theory such as university teachers-researchers, teachers participating in inquiry groups, pedagogic coordinators in schools, and members of Governmental Resource Centres for teachers.

 We are pleased to announce that Professor James P. Lantolf (Center for Language Acquisition, The Pennsylvania State University USA) will be our Plenary Speaker at both the Opening and Closing sessions.

 Given the international character of the symposium, English will be the main language of communication. Catalan and Spanish will be used too, so participants should understand at least one of these two languages.

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