International Conference on Child Foreign Language Acquisition

16-17 d’octubre 2014 Vitòria – Gasteiz

This workshop focuses on child (4-12) foreign language acquisition in school contexts. Research exploring how children of that age range interact while completing communicative tasks is lacking, especially in foreign language settings. Philp, Oliver and Mackey (2008: 13) stated that there is a need for “rich, detailed descriptions of the many and various factors which interact to impact a given child’s L2 development.” Thus, we will welcome studies carried out within interactionist or sociocultural approaches and focused on different aspects of child foreign language development. Topics that will fit this call for papers will be, among others:

– Task-based interaction among children (task familiarity, planning time, attention to form … etc)
– Teacher input to young learners (instructions and models while carrying out tasks) and its impact on child language development.
– L1 use
– The role of peers in child foreign language acquisition
– Pedagogical implications for the design of age-appropriate tasks
– Child metalinguistic awareness
– Child motivation and attitude toward tasks
– Concerns and challenges in child foreign language acquisition

Plazo de envío de propuestas: hasta el 17 de mayo de 2014