About

The summer school “Linguistic Theory in Second and Foreign Language Teaching”, jointly organized by the University of Braunschweig (Germany) and State Pedagogical Minin University of Nizhny Novgorod (Russia) takes place in Braunschweig (Germany) from August 31st till September 4st, 2018. It covers four working days, leaving Sunday (02.09) free for a social event. The school finishes right before the well-known conference EuroSLA giving the participants an opportunity to move to Münster by Wednesday, 05.09.

A regular working day of the research school begins at 9.00 a.m. with a keynote lecture by a distinguished scholar from the USA, Germany, the UK and Canada. The plenary lecture lasts for 90 minutes (70 minutes for the talk + 20 minutes for discussion). A short coffee break separates a keynote lecture from the following group workshops.

A workshop is a guided seminar chaired by scholars working in applied linguistics and language pedagogy. It is an interactive presentation by the chair of the session that makes participants involved in summarizing or thinking over the main matters of the session. There are four group workshops per day. They last for 2 hours and there is a lunch break between the sessions. The working language of most workshops is English.

After the second workshop, the participants are offered a doctoral session on research methods. In the doctoral session the participants of the summer school present their on-going studies for an open discussion guided by a senior scholar. The doctoral session finishes a working day, there is a 30-minute coffee break before it and after the second workshop (16.00-16.30).

Alongside the English-speaking keynote lectures, workshops and doctoral sessions the school welcomes oral and poster presentations from young scholars and language teachers. The second half of Day 3 is a “conference of the participants”. Oral contributions and posters are welcome in both English and German.

The program of the school is designed to cover the interests of language teachers and research students working in the field of second/foreign language acquisition. The confluence of theoretical and practical approaches is vitally important nowadays. The research school should become a platform for collaboration that will result in efficient language teaching informed by the newest linguistic research.

***sponsored by Ministry for Science and Culture of Lower Saxony under the programme PRO*Niedersachsen