La Sapienza - Università di Roma

3rd ELF International Symposium

Sapienza University, Rome, October 27-29, 2021

WELCOME to the site of Sapienza 3rd ELF International Symposium

"ELF Emergence: migratory flows, transient groups & communities of practice in educational settings"

Oct. 27-29, 2021, Aula degli organi collegiali, Rector's building and in remote streaming on zoom

Here you can find the link for your free registration to the symposium:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd4QGL8IPLT3moLyTL18-VucKVCfz8ST7MI8OyNvVF6_WGqYQ/viewform

The link to join the symposium will be emailed to you on Monday Oct. 25th. 

E-mail address: elf2021.iso@uniroma1.it

Programme

October 27th, h. 15.00: Opening session

Welcome address by the authorities

               Sapienza Pro-Rector, Prof. Giuseppe Ciccarone

               British Council Country Director Italy, Rachel Launay

               Humanities Faculty Deputy Dean, Prof. Matilde Mastrangelo

               Oriental Studies Dept. Director, Prof. Franco D'Agostino

               Convenor and MC, Prof. Marina Morbiducci

Plenaries

Chair:    Prof. Lucilla Lopriore (University of Roma Tre)

h. 15.30: Prof. Em. Henry Widdowson (University of London / University of Vienna)

                “ELF Positioning”                         

 h. 16.00: Q&A                     

 h. 16.15: Prof. Barbara Seidlhofer (University of Vienna)

                “On the scope of ELF research”

 h. 16.45: Q&A

 h.  17.00: Prof. Em. Kurt Kohn (University of Tübingen)

                 "Developing ELF competence and speaker-learners' internal curriculum"

 h. 17.30 Q&A

 h. 17.45: Round up session

 h. 18.15: Musical entertainment with Massimo Giuntoli, composer and performer

October 28th, h. 15.00

Plenaries

Chair: Prof. Marina Morbiducci (Sapienza University)

h. 15.00: Dr. Marie-Luise Pitzl (Austrian Academy of Sciences)

               "ELF and beyond: Describing emergent practices and Transient International
                Groups"           

h. 15.30: Q&A

h. 15.45: Prof. Maria Grazia Guido (University of Salento)

               “Nigerian migrants’ ELF-mediated online interactions at the outset of Covid-19
                pandemic lockdown: developing new economy processes of relexicalization and
                decategorialization”            

h.16.15: Prof. Thomas W. Christiansen (University of Salento)

              “The dynamics of Question/Answer moves in ELF spoken discourse in
               cross-cultural migration domains”

h. 16.45:  Prof. Pietro Luigi Iaia (University of Salento)

               “ELF potential in international subtitling”

h. 17.15:  Prof. Mariarosaria Provenzano (University of Salento)

                “Reformulating and translating the Italian decree-law ‘Rilancio 2020’ into ELF.
                 Redefining competence and empirical perspectives in legal translation”

h. 17.45: Q&A and round up session

h. 18.15: Musical entertainment with Claudia Pintaudi, harp     

October 29, h. 15.00                                        

Plenaries                                      

Chair: Prof. Mary Wardle (Sapienza University)

h. 15.00: Prof. Donna Hurst Tatsuki (Kobe City University of Foreign Studies)

               “Model United Nations as an ELF community of practice: Preliminary insights from
                the MUN corpus of English”

h. 15.30: Q&A

h. 15.45: Prof. Lucilla Lopriore (University of Roma Tre)  with Prof. Alessandra Cannelli (University of Roma Tre) , Dr. Valeria Fiasco (University of Roma Tre) 

              and Dr. Silvia Sperti (University of Roma Tre) 

              “Language teacher education in an ELF aware perspective: challenges
               and responses in emerging communities of practice”

h. 16.45: Q&A

h. 17.00: Panel: All Plenarists of the three sessions

h. 18.15: Musical entertainment with Vincenzo Di Silvestro, violin, and Alessandra Lussi, piano & Farewell