Nordand 10: Conference on Nordic languages as a second and foreign language, Reykjavík (Iceland)

Main themes

Motivation, complexity and output in learning of Nordic languages as second and foreign language

Main Lectures

• Professor Alan Firth:  Conversation Analysis, competence, and L2 interaction: Why, how and to what end?
• Professor Anne Holmen -  Second Language Acquisition in diverse communities: a new kind of complexity?
• Professor Diane Larsen-Freeman –  Chaos/Complexity Theory:  The Boundlessness of Potentiality
• Professor Ema Ushioda – The place of motivation in complexity theory perspectives on L2 learning

Plenaries

• Guðrún Theódórsdóttir – The disappearance of the Language Learner.  ‘Identity’ in Second Language Acquisition from a CA-SLA perspective.
• Juni Søderberg Arnfast – "... but I feel like a clown." On adult learners articulation of motivation to learn Danish pronunciation.
• Per Holmberg – Genrepedagogik för flerspråkiga elever. - En diskussion av möjligheter och begränsningar utifrån pågående klassrumsforskning

Venue

Islands Universitet of Reykjavík