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SUMMARY:Languaging Joy and Measuring Intercultural Dialogue: Decreating an
 d Decolonising in Language Education - Professor Alison Phipps\, Universit
 y of Glasgow
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CONTACT:Dr. Phung Dao
DESCRIPTION:As a social scientific enterprise second language learning and
  teaching values precision\, enumeration\, coding and precision. It has be
 nefited from the ways positivism has helped to clarify and isolate phenome
 na and has\, since Firth and Wagner’s seminal work\, wrestled with its s
 ocial construction and the many ways in which language has been described\
 , determined and represented through what we might call western\, normativ
 e scholarship.In this lecture\, I will examine and situate myself\, respec
 tfully\, within the long tradition critical of this approach\, but which a
 lso symbiotically benefits from its work and determinations. I will presen
 t the theoretical work of scholars engaged in decreating and decolonising 
 these approaches and the exciting new publications emerging in recent year
 s which seek to give much greater credence and value than has been hencefo
 rth the case\, to the linguistic scholarship undertaken in low to middle i
 ncome countries and in indigenous contexts. I will draw on my own recent s
 tudies in arts and languages\, working as an anthropologist\, but also on 
 the work I have undertaken within the normative frameworks offered by UNES
 CO and its reports on arts\, culture\, languages and intercultural dialogu
 e.Through this often tense relationship with the critical and the normativ
 e\, which I inhabit I will demonstrate the value of multipolarities\; of t
 he multilingual stance and the importance of interruptions to and within s
 econd language learning contexts. I will do this focusing especially in th
 ose whose learning is profoundly interrupted by the search for safety and 
 refuge\, and through recourse to poetry and the arts. In so doing\, I will
  argue for an approach to language education in general and SLA in particu
 lar that proceeds using methods which are interculturally dialogic\, traum
 a-informed and conflict transformational\, and that for this to be possibl
 e\, the arts are required in equal measure to the social scientific.
LOCATION:Room: 1S3 DMB\, Faculty of Education\, University of Cambridge
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