JOIN US to
help us PLACE LANGUAGE IN THE CENTRE OF EDUCATION,
expand our INTERNATIONAL CIRCLE,
contribute to ERLA MEMBERS’ PUBLICATIONS, and
develop various international ERL PROJECTS or ERL INITIATIVES.
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Below you can read more about the WHY, WHO, HOW, and WHAT of ERLA:
The WHY of ERL Association. Language underlies and binds education. It merits a special place in educational studies and, with its highly complex character, it calls for interdisciplinary cooperation across subjects, schools and cultures. As we know from the so-called ‘linguistic turn’, how we learn and how we see the world around us is strongly determined by language. The association aims to boost the position of language in education and to systematize theoretical and empirical studies undertaken at the wide intersection of educational science and linguistics. We hope to achieve this through becoming the global platform for all theoreticians and practitioners who cooperate and communicate together with a view to developing pedagogically-grounded and socially-conditioned language-based education.
The WHO of ERL Association. Studies of the educational role of language necessitate interdisciplinarity. Accordingly, we shall be happy to “join forces” with, for instance, sociolinguists, psycholinguists, applied linguists, linguistic anthropologists, theoreticians of education, experts of developmental psychology, comparative or cultural linguistics experts, cognitive scientists, and specialists of many other subdisciplines, whose considerations and findings might widen our awareness of how language operates in education. We work as an international circle comprised by ERLA members and supported by others, too, which you welcome to join and specify your role depending on your expertise and preferences.
The HOW of ERL Association. To understand the educational role of language, internationalization is required. Therefore, we meet at various ERL Events, jointly undertake ERLA Projects, publish ERL Journal, refer to our colleagues from the ERL Network, and, most importantly for the Association’s aims, seek devout ERLA Members. Do contact us at educationalroleoflanguage@gmail.com if you believe that your work might inform our joint strivings.
The WHAT of ERL Association. Our focus is deliberately broad and we study the educational role of language at the level of SCHOOL, CULTURE, METHODS and PERSONALITY. Additionally, within this extensive field we apply a (narrower) language user-oriented perspective by studying language beliefs (what we THINK OF language), language activity (what we DO WITH language), language affect (how we FEEL ABOUT language),and language matrices of reality interpretation (how we UNDERSTAND THROUGH language), all of which complement and support one another.