Malta Centre
Workshop on Maltese English in the context of learner varieties
| Date: Wednesday, March 18, 2015 | |
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| Location: Universität Bremen, Building GW2, Room A3570 | |
| Organizers: Benjamin Saade & Marcus Callies (Universität Bremen) |
This workshop takes Maltese English as a starting point for discussing the ontological status of the established categories EFL (English as a foreign language) and ESL (English as a second language). Is there a paradigm gap to close (Mukherjee & Hundt, 2011) or do we just have to look closer at the structural properties, acquisition contexts and discourse pratices of the respective varieties of English?
Mukherjee, J., & Hundt, M. (Eds.). (2011). Exploring second-language varieties of English and learner Englishes: bridging a paradigm gap. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
External listeners are very welcome, just send a short notice to Benjamin Saade (Universität Bremen).
| Programme | |
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| 9:00-9:15 | Introduction |
| 9:15-9:45 | Potatoes, stereotypes and survey data: approaches to the linguistic landscape of MaltaBenjamin Saade (Universität Bremen) |
| 9:45-10:30 | Discourse and lexicon studies in ESL- and ENL-varieties around the world: Questionnaire- and corpus-based investigations Manfred Krug (Universität Bamberg) |
| 10:30-10:45 | Coffee break |
| 10:45-11:30 | Native listener sensitivity to variation at the prosodic level: rhythm patterns in Maltese EnglishSarah Grech & Sandra Vella (University of Malta) |
| 11:30-12:15 | Investigating Variety Status: Cyprus as a Case in PointChristiane Bongartz (Universität zu Köln) & Sarah Buschfeld (Universität Regensburg) |
| 12:15-13:30 | Lunch break |
| 13:30-14:15 | Corpus of Learner English in Malta (CLEM)Odette Vassallo (University of Malta) |
| 14:15-15:00 | English in Malta between EFL and ESL varieties: A comparative corpus-study of lexical innovations Marcus Callies (Universität Bremen) |
| 15:00 | Closing discussion |