Applied Language Studies

We invite application on the following areas in the field of applied language studies:

• Multilingualism and language policies
  – multilingualism with individuals
  – multilingualism in communities
  – multilingualism in organisations
  – language policy
  – linguistic landscapes

• Language revitalisation and new speakers
  – activating a new language
  – language activism

• Language in society
  – linguistic practices in organisations
  – linguistic practices
  – multiculturalism, identities
  – language and space
  – agency and structures for action
  – identities and identity building

• Minority languages

• Social media
  – communication and interaction in social media platforms
  – multimodality

• Digital/Multimodal literacy

• Study of interaction

• Mother tongue and old mother tongues

• Immigrants and learning heritage languages

• Learning and teaching second and foreign language
  – vocabulary
  – spoken language
  – formal  and informal langauge learning environments
  – language awareness
  – learner and teacher identities
  – limited language use (e.g. interfaces between translation and using L2)
  – cultural awareness
  – teaching materials
  – language teacher expertise

• Writing processes and their fluency
  – writing as a process (in L1 and L2)
  – translation as a process
  – text genetics
  – nexus theory (visualisation) applied to producing texts 

Methods:
– questionnaires
– observation
– elicitation
– narratives
– visual methods
– intearction and discourse analysis
– multimodal analysis
– content analysis
– statistical methods
– triangulation of qualitative and quantitative methods
– keystroke logging programmes (both in language learning and teaching and translation studies)