Introspection, active learning & LA research
ALA Digital Talk on Language Awareness by Marcelo Concário, São Paulo State University (UNESP, Bauru campus), Brazil.
ALA defines language awareness as “explicit knowledge about language, and conscious perception and sensitivity in language learning, language teaching and language use”. My personal take has always been to frame awareness as a ‘first-person phenomenon’, which implies the primary focus on the agent of languaging (Concário, 2018; James, 1999; Swain, 2006). In this digital talk, I will address principles and (nowadays – I feel – less common) procedures in LA research that can favor second- order analysis, and data collected with language learners as agents throughout instructional mediation.
Registration
Read more about the talk and register on the ALA website.
About the ALA Digital Talks
The Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies at UCPH will host the ALA Conference 2028.
In the lead-up to the conference, we invite researchers, educators, and students to take part in the ALA Digital Talks on Language Awareness, a series of monthly online talks organized by the Association for Language Awareness (ALA).
Participation is free of charge, and registration does not oblige you to attend every session. Join whichever talks are of interest to you.
The series is coordinated and moderated by Petra Daryai-Hansen, member of the ALA Executive Committee and coordinator of the research group Languages and Cultures in Education.