With the globalization and the increase of digital communication in a networked era, we are witnessing rapidly changing, web-mediated communication which involve a variety of linguistic practices, audiences, communicative purposes, modes and media. In fact, digital technology has transformed the way we conceive communication, languages and linguistic varieties and provided new opportunities for new generations to use multilingual resources, multimodal strategies, and discourses.
This 8th edition of the International Conference on Moroccan Arabic will be focused on advances and emerging approaches and trends in digital era. By digitalisation we mean the expanding complexity of the digital environments in which languages and varieties are managed, used, and developed. Nowadays, digital communication has the potential to create new opportunities and new communicative spaces for many speech and language communities of practices. The thematic conference of this 8th edition tries to respond to the following question: How can languages and varieties be managed and capitalized in digital environment and what ideologies are implicated? How can different needs be brought together in a digital environment? How digital environment transform language learning and teaching tools and methods? And what ethnolinguistic, political, and social subjectivities emerged in digital era?
So, we invite scholars, researchers, and practitioners to share scholarly works, interests and professional insights into the use of technology in new linguistic practices on Moroccan Arabic and other Moroccan local languages, such as Amazigh and MSA. This Conference is an excellent opportunity for the presentation of innovative research and works that combine theories, approaches and methodologies from Applied Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Language Learning and Teaching with CMC, Language Activism and Language Right. We welcome proposals on any aspect of digital communication in Moroccan Arabic and local languages but not limited to the following topics:
Language practices in Moroccan Arabic in digital environment.
Multilingual, plurilingual and Multimodal resources in Moroccan local languages.
Activism in Moroccan Arabic and other local languages in digital environment.
Mobile social media and Moroccan local languages.
Language practices and identities in transnational and diasporic digital networks.
Teaching innovation and digital technology.
Writing in Moroccan Arabic
The languages of conference are: Spanish, English, French and Arabic.