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The Graduate School of International Cultural Studies present lectures by Dr Lourdes Ortega and Dr Jean-Marc Dewaele - both internationally recognized scholars in the field of applied linguistics and second language acquisition.

Date: June 12
Time: 6:00-8:00pm
Venue: Kawauchi Campus, Multimedia Education and Research Complex, 6F M601 (MAP)
Language: English
Please register via the link: http://bit.ly/2sve2Or

Reenvisioning English Competence

Dr Lourdes Ortega - Georgetown University

"Two thirds of the world's speakers of English are second-language users and thus by definition bi/multilingual. All too often, their competence is construed as deficient and their multilingual prowess is erased.

A wealth of knowledge from language acquisition by children and adults and from social theories in education can help us envision a new kind of multilingual English competence.

This kind of competence is continuous, probabilistic and gradient, and it is not limited by strictly linguistic or purely monolingual standards. I then explore pedagogical strategies that can help educators reaffirm multilinguals' English competence and success."

Dr Lourdes Ortega is a Professor of Department of Linguistics at Georgetown University. A widely published scholar and frequent plenary speaker at international conferences, she is best known for her award-winning meta-analysis of L2 instruction in 2000, her best-seller textbook Understanding Second Language Acquisition and for championing a bilingual turn in second language acquisition.

Born, raised, and college-educated in southern Spain, Lourdes obtained her doctorate in the United States, where she has lived and worked since 1993. Her bilingual life in English-Spanish is enriched by several other languages, particularly Greek, which was once her strongest language.

Communicating Emotions in a Foreign Language

Dr Jean-Marc Dewaele - Birkbeck, University of London

"In this lecture I will present an overview of the recent surge of interest in the field of emotion and multilingualism. I will focus on the development of sociopragmatic and sociocultural competence, and more specifically on the communication of emotion by first and foreign language users as well as the effect of emotional acculturation to a new language and culture.

I will also consider the effects of age of onset of acquisition, of type of foreign language instruction and of current language use on language preferences for the communication of emotion including declarations of love and swearing in the foreign language."

Dr. Jean-Marc Dewaele is a Professor of Department of Applied Linguistics and Communication at Birkbeck, University of London. He is a keen walker, karate-ka and author of Emotions in Multiple Languages (2010). He is President of the International Association of Multilingualism and former president of the European Second Language Association. He is General Editor of the International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism.

Dewaele won the Equality and Diversity Research Award from the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (2013) and the Robert Gardner Award for Excellence in Second Language and Bilingualism Research (2016) from the International Association of Language and Social Psychology.

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