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5th International Conference
Foreign Languages and Tourism
12th-13th November, 2021 – Online Conference
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Conferences jointly organized by the four universities biannually aim to bring together teachers and researchers of languages for tourism and tourism discourse, and open up space for dialogue with colleagues, exchange of research findings and teaching practices and discussions of the future of our discipline and its contribution to the world around us.
Last year’s conference, which was organized by the University of Applied Sciences Burgenland, Austria, was impossible to hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which has severely altered our professional and individual lives. In light of the ongoing uncertainties of these turbulent and challenging times and the likely travel difficulties they may cause, the representatives of the four universities have decided to organize their next conference fully online. We feel that running a virtual conference has many positive aspects to it: it is safe and more affordable, it is ecologically beneficial in terms of carbon footprints, innovative, and it will give us all some much-needed peace of mind looking ahead to autumn 2021. With our distinguished plenary speakers and with your active participation and contribution, we are confident that the Foreign Languages and Tourism 2021 online conference is going to be an interesting and stimulating experience.
Keynote Speakers
Stefania M. Maci is Full Professor of English Language and Translation and Pro Vice-Chancellor for Education and Student Affairs at the University of Bergamo, Italy. She is also Director of CERLIS, Centro di Ricerca sui Linguaggi Specialistici. Her research interests include medical academic discourse, legal discourse, advertising and business discourse. She is author of numerous papers published in international journals and collected volumes as well as editor or co-editor of a number of collected volumes. Prof. Maci is also known for her academic research in the field of tourism discourse, too. Her research deals with tourist destination representations, in-flight magazines, virtual touring, digital tourism discourse, etc. She is author of three monographs on tourism discourse: The Language of Tourism (2010), Tourism Discourse: Professional, Promotional and Digital voices (2013) and most recently English Tourism Discourse. Insights into the professional, promotional and digital language of tourism (2020). She also co-edited the collected volume Ways of Seeing, Ways of Being. Representing the Voices of Tourism (2017). Prof. Maci is currently involved in national and international research projects on academic English and ESP, with particular regard to medical and tourism discourse, metadiscursive and argumentative strategies of traditional and new forms of communication.
Sabrina Francesconi works at the Department of Humanities of the University of Trento as Associate Professor of English Linguistics and as Department’s delegate for international affairs. She is also a member of the Italian Association for Canadian Studies Scientific Board. Her main research interests are: tourism and heritage discourses, adaptation studies, multimodal genre analysis, systemic-functional stylistics, multimodal stylistics. On tourism discourse, she has published four monographic works: Heritage Discourse in Digital Travel Video Diaries (Tangram, 2018), Reading Tourism Texts: A Multimodal Analysis (Channel View Publications, 2014), Generic Integrity and Innovation in Tourism Texts in English (Tangram, 2012) and Language for Tourism Promotion: Italy in British Texts (Hoepli, 2007). Sabrina Francesconi is also the author of many articles, published in Italy and abroad, including: “Dynamic Intersemiosis as a Humour-enacting Trigger in a Tourist Video” (Visual Communication, 2017), “The Semiotics of Inter-Panel Transition in Comic-strip Postcards” (Text & Talk, 2013), and “Images and Writing in Tourist Brochures” (Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change, 2011). She is currently working on a monographic book on film and television adaptations of Munro’s short stories, to be published by Routledge.
Final programme
Friday, 12th November, 2021
| 9.00 – 9.10 | Conference opening with welcome address |
| 9.10 – 10.10 | Plenary lecture, Chair: Šarolta Godnič Vičič |
| Stefania M. Maci: Tourism Discourse. Opportunities and Challenges | |
| 10.10 – 10.20 | Coffee break |
| 10.20 – 11.40 | Paper session 1, Chair: Elena Manca |
| Michael Ennis: From the Study of the English of Tourism to the Teaching of English for Tourism | |
| Vlado Sušac: Deliberate metaphors in the language of tourism | |
| Francesco Costantini, Diego Sidraschi, Francesco Zuin: Minority languages in travel websites: a study on some minority communities in Italy | |
| Paula Rama da Silva: Creative tourism, Street Art and English Language Classes | |
| 11.40 – 11.55 | Coffee break |
| 11.55 – 13.15 | Paper session 2, Chair: Milka SInkovič |
| Anne-Kathrin Gärtig-Bressan: Die norditalienische Region Friaul-Julisch Venetien im Spiegel deutschsprachiger Reiseführer | |
| Yolanda Joy Calvo Benzies: Bringing authentic materials into the ESP classroom to enhance oral skills: A case study on Tourism students´ attitudes towards a simulated job interview | |
| Vesselina Laskova: Teaching Russian through virtual tourism experiences | |
| Sintia Marić, Tina Orel Frank: Anglicisms in Slovene online tourism language | |
| 13.15 – 14.15 | Lunch break |
| 14.15 – 15.35 | Paper session 3, Chair: Tina Orel Frank |
| Elena Manca: Mediating tourist products: culture, perception and language | |
| Olga Denti: Teaching Tourism discourse and Translation | |
| Maria Elisa Fina: Writing for reading vs writing for speaking: experimenting intermodal translation for tourist promotion | |
| Marijana Jeleč, Tomislav Krpan: Translatologische Stolpersteine im Tourismus und deren Wirkung | |
| 15.35 – 15.50 | Coffee break |
| 15.50 – 17.10 | Paper session 4, Chair: Milka Sinkovič |
| Radoslav Stefancik, Irina Dulebova: Fremdsprachen und Tourismus in der Slowakei | |
| Marieta Djakovic, Kristina Djakovic: Fremdsprachenunterricht im Tourismus Studium | |
| Alenka Šuljić Petrc, Dolores Miškulin: Functional knowledge of foreign languages in the hospitality sector in Croatia | |
| Tatyana Yefremtseva: A License to Skill: New Role of Foreign Languages in Tourism Education | |
| 17.15 – 18.00 | Meeting of the Foreign Languages and Tourism Teaching and Research Network |
Saturday, 13th November, 2021
| 9.00 – 10.00 | Plenary lecture, Chair: Šarolta Godnič Vičič |
| Sabrina Francesconi: Pandemic tourism videos as teaching materials: The use of voice-in, voice-over and intertitles | |
| 10.00 – 10.10 | Coffee break |
| 10.10 – 11.10 | Paper session 5, Chair: Olga Denti |
| Neva Čebron, Tjaša Vilotič: Raising Intercultural Awareness: A Survey of Some Language Textbooks for Tourism | |
| David Brett, Antonio Pinna, Barbara Loranc: Aspects of Adjective Collocation in Travel Journalism in English, Italian and Polish | |
| Šarolta Godnič Vičič: Research article titles in tourism studies: A diachronic corpus study | |
| 11.10 – 11.25 | Coffee break |
| 11.25 – 12.45 | Paper session 6, Chair: Nina Lovec |
| Ljudmila Sinkovič: Herausforderungen beim Online-DaF-Unterricht | |
| Anna Riccio: Linguistic strategies of oleotourism on the Web | |
| Dragana Vuković Vojnović: ’Escape to… stories you’ll share!’ – engaging the tourist in tourism promotional texts on the web | |
| Aleksandra Radovanović: Possibility modals in hotel managers’ responses to negative reviews online | |
| 12.45 – 13.00 | Coffee break |
| 13.00 – 14.00 | Paper session 7, Chair: Vlado Sušac |
| Nina Lovec: Teaching Italian in tourism with a travel app | |
| Ana Gonçalves, Maria Altina Almeida: Involve me and I learn: How eportfolios can promote affective learning in tourism education | |
| Emmanouela Seiradakis: Online Concept Mapping as a Genre Scaffolding Task: Insights from an English for Tourism Purposes Course | |
| 14.00 – 14.10 | Closing remarks |
Conference Fees
Participation at the conference will be free of charge.
Registration
To participate as a guest, please register at https://1ka.arnes.si/a/32361 by Wednesday, 10th November. Please note that the space for guest participants is limited.
Book of abstracts
Foreign Languages and Tourism 2021 – Book of abstracts (.PDF)
Further Information
For further information please write to foreign.languages.and.tourism@gmail.com.
Programme Committee
- Brigita Bosnar Valković, University of Rijeka, Faculty of Tourism and Hospitality Management Opatija, Croatia
- Šarolta Godnič Vičič, University of Primorska, Faculty of Tourism Studies – Turistica, Portorož, Slovenia
- Nina Lovec, University of Primorska, Faculty of Tourism Studies – Turistica, Portorož, Slovenia
- Tina Orel Frank, University of Primorska, Faculty of Tourism Studies – Turistica, Portorož, Slovenia
- Ljudmila Sinkovič, University of Primorska, Faculty of Tourism Studies – Turistica, Portorož, Slovenia
- Vlado Sušac, University of Zadar, Department of Tourism and Communication Studies, Zadar, Croatia
- Irena Zavrl, University of Applied Sciences Burgenland, Eisenstadt, Austria
Organizing Committee
- Šarolta Godnič Vičič, University of Primorska, Faculty of Tourism Studies – Turistica, Portorož, Slovenia
- Nina Lovec, University of Primorska, Faculty of Tourism Studies – Turistica, Portorož, Slovenia
- Tina Orel Frank, University of Primorska, Faculty of Tourism Studies – Turistica, Portorož, Slovenia
- Ljudmila Sinkovič, University of Primorska, Faculty of Tourism Studies – Turistica, Portorož, Slovenia