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As COVID-19 vaccination proceeds in the world, we are hoping to meet you in person at the conference in Tallinn. Possible COVID regulations in Estonia: https://www.ecb.ee/covid-19-information-for-events-in-estonia/ and in Tallinn University: https://www.tlu.ee/en/covid-19-and-tallinn-university
If you are still not able to travel for any reason, there will be a possibility to join remotely. In both cases, the participation fee is 100 €. Please register by September 20th, indicating if you will participate in person or virtually. The exact link will be sent before the conference.
Scientific committee of NatAcLang2021The European Union promotes multilingualism and cultural diversity. However, English has become a predominant language in scientific research and publishing, whereas the internationalisation of higher education is often reduced to using more and more English as a language of instruction at universities.
The Centre for Academic Estonian at the Tallinn University gladly invites to the second international conference National languages in academic research and higher education, to be held in Tallinn, Estonia. The conference is supported by the Estonian Ministry of Education and Research and the Nordic Council of Ministers' Office in Estonia.
The aim of the event is to confer on the current situation of national languages in the globalising world of science, dealing with every kind of achievements and problems of using national or state languages in academia. We welcome discussion on contemporary tendencies of using diverse mother tongues for academic research and higher education of any speciality, and on different solutions on how to reach a sustainable balance between national and international, multilingual scientific work and communication.
We kindly invite contributions on topics that include, but are not limited to:
Working languages of the conference are Estonian and English, with simultaneous interpreting available.
Conference program is available. Click the button below to download the program.
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Annette de Groot studied Dutch Language and Literature and General Linguistics at Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands, and subsequently obtained a doctorate in Psycholinguistics, also at Radboud University Nijmegen. In 1987 she was appointed by the University of Amsterdam, first as associate professor of Cognitive Psychology and next as professor of Experimental Psycholinguistics. She conducted research on reading and spelling, word recognition and the mental lexicon, and bilingualism and multilingualism. Within the latter research theme, the emphasis was on word processing by bilinguals, word learning in a second language, and simultaneous interpreting. In addition to dozens of journal articles and book chapters, she has published a number of books, including the monograph Language and cognition in bilinguals and multilinguals: An introduction, published by Psychology Press. Her farewell lecture Nederlands moet: over meertaligheid en de verengelsing van het universitaire onderwijs (Dutch is a must: about multilingualism and the anglicisation of university education), marks the beginning of her current efforts to inform various audiences about the risks and adverse effects of large-scale anglicisation of higher education. These efforts are particularly urgent in The Netherlands, where English has rapidly become the sole language of instruction in the majority of university programs.
BACKRainer Enrique Hamel gained his PhD in Romance linguistics at Frankfurt University, Germany. He is professor of linguistics in the Department of Anthropology at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) in Mexico City, and a member of the Mexican Academy of Science. He is the Director of the inter-institutional Research Programme “Indigenous Communities and Intercultural Bilingual Education” hosted at UAM, and the Director of the Project Networks “Language Policy in Latin America” of ALFAL, the Association of Linguists and Philologists of Latin America: he is the representative of the UNESCO Chair on Politics of Multilingualism in Mexico. His areas of research include sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, bilingualism and bilingual education, language politics and planning, and discourse analysis, especially interaction research. He has published several books and over 70 articles and book chapters in five different languages. Over the past 25 years he has worked as a visiting researcher and professor in the Universities of Campinas, Belem and Bahia, Brazil, Stanford, UC Santa Barbara and UC San Diego, USA, and Frankfurt, Mannheim and Freiburg, Germany, as well as in other countries.
www.hamel.com.mx
Vera Schwach earned a doctoral degree (dr.philos.) in history from the University of Oslo (2012) and helds a position as Research Professor at NIFU, Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Higher Education, situated in Oslo, Norway. Schwach’s specialities includes evaluation, studies on research policy, higher education and history of science. Since 2003 she has examined the use of English and the national language, Norwegian, in research and higher education. Her investigations of academic curriculums includes language distribution in bachelor- and master programmes respectively, in textbooks and other learning resources, furthermore, teaching and learning environment in general. Her ambition is to reach facts and insight in contemporary use of English and Norwegian in an academic setting, and to establish reliable methods and statistics for investigations. The majority of the studies has been Commissioned by the Norwegian Language Council (Språkrådet). The results have contributed to a knowledge basis for the Language Council’s work and policy, furthermore to official papers and Government’s white papers to the Parliament.
BACKKerttu Rozenvalde is a research fellow in language policy at the University of Tartu. She is currently conducting a research project on language use and attitudes in a multilingual university in Estonia in order to understand the relationship between the sustainability of Estonian as language of higher education, and multilingual language use in university. Previously, she has worked at the Latvian Language Agency where she was part of the working group that carried out a large-scale macro-sociolinguistic study on language situation in Latvia from 2016 to 2020. From 2011 to 2017 she worked as lecturer of the Estonian language and culture at the University of Latvia. Among her fields of research are language and higher education policies. She recently defended her PhD dissertation that investigated the interplay of languages in higher education comparatively in Estonia and Latvia.
BACKTallinn University is the largest university of humanities in Tallinn and the third biggest public university in Estonia. We have almost 7,000 students (with 9.5% of them international), and about 800 employees, including nearly 400 researchers and lecturers.
Wishing to contribute more to the society, we have set a goal to become the promoter of intelligent lifestyle in Estonia. We interpret intelligent lifestyle as making research-based decisions in order to improve the society in general and the well-being of its citizens.
Our five interdisciplinary focus fields are educational innovation, digital and media culture, cultural competences, healthy and sustainable lifestyle and society and open governance.
Narva mnt 25, 10120 Tallinn
Please register by September 20th, indicating if you will participate in person or virtually. The link will be sent before the conference. In both cases, participation fee is 100 €.
For students of Estonian universities, attending conference sessions is FREE, but registration is needed.
Queries: +372 6199 519 or conference@tlu.ee
Health situation in Estonia: https://www.kriis.ee/en
Park Inn by Radisson Central Tallinn (Narva road 7C)
Special prices are valid on 06‒09.10.2021 until 22.09.2021
Standard room 65 EUR / night, single or double
Superior room 75 EUR / night, single or double
Rate includes rich buffet breakfast, unlimited use of the gym, wireless internet, VAT, coffee / tea making facilities in the room.
Superior category additionally includes safety deposit box, bathrobes and slippers, bottled water on arrival.
Booking can also be made through hotels reservations office, using promotional code “NATAC”:
E-mail: Estonia.sales@parkinn.com
Tel: +372 6315 315
Mon–Fri 08.30–17.00
Kais Allkivi-Metsoja, PhD student - Tallinn University
Merilin Aruvee, PhD student - Tallinn University
Prof. Annekatrin Kaivapalu, University of Eastern Finland
Prof. Birute Klaas-Lang - University of Tartu
Prof. Helle Metslang - University of Tartu
Peep Nemvalts, PhD - Tallinn University (chair)
Halliki Põlda, PhD - Tallinn University
Mari Uusküla, PhD - Tallinn University
Practical arrangement: Tallinn University Conference Centre
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