The study of English as a lingua franca (ELF) in a wider context

A symposium for Barbara Seidlhofer

Sat, 25 June 2016
University of Vienna, English Department (Unterrichtsraum)
9.30

Welcome & opening statements

10.00-11.15

Sociolinguistic contexts

Chair: Nikolaus Ritt (Univ. of Vienna)

10.00

Peter Trudgill (Agder Univ.)

ELF and new-dialect formation

10.15

Andy Kirkpatrick (Griffith Univ.)

ELF in Southeast Asia

10.30

Herbert Schendl (Univ. of Vienna)

From HEL to ELF: Some thoughts from historical linguistics

10.45

Discussion

11.15-11.45

Coffee

11.45-12.45

Applied linguistic contexts

Chair: Henry Widdowson (Univ. of Vienna)

11.45

Juliane House (Univ. of Hamburg/Hellenic American Univ.)

ELF and translation

12.00

Guy Cook (Kings College London)

Reflections on categorization: Species, nations, languages

12.15

Discussion

12.45-14.15

Lunch

14.15-15.30

Pedagogic contexts

Chair: Ute Smit (Univ. of Vienna)

14.15

Kurt Kohn (Univ. of Tbingen)

From ELF communication to lingua franca pedagogy

14.30

Kumiko Murata (Waseda Univ.)

From EMI to ELFMI Against pervasive native speakerism and norms

14.45

Tim McNamara (Univ. of Melbourne)

Language testing and ELF

15.00

Discussion

15.30-16.00

Coffee

16.00-17.00

Perspectives on the emergence of ELF as a field of study

Cornelia Hlmbauer, Ruth Osimk-Teasdale, Marie-Luise Pitzl

17.00

Reception

Organized by Marie-Luise Pitzl with Henry Widdowson, Lisa Edelbacher, Veronika Thir
Please send an email to lisa.edelbacher@univie.ac.at by 12 June to register for the event.