28.492, Calls: Applied Linguistics/Lithuania

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Subject: 28.492, Calls: Applied Linguistics/Lithuania

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Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 13:57:31
From: Jurgita Serniute [jurgita.serniute at vdu.lt]
Subject: Sustainable Multilingualism 2017

 
Full Title: Sustainable Multilingualism 2017 
Short Title: SM 

Date: 26-May-2017 - 27-May-2017
Location: Kaunas, Lithuania 
Contact Person: prof. dr. Nemira Mačianskienė
Meeting Email: multilingualism at vdu.lt
Web Site: http://uki.vdu.lt/conferences/sustainable-multilingualism-2017/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-May-2017 

Meeting Description:

The conference aims at bringing together scholars and language education
professionals to share their research insights and discuss the issues relevant
to the development of individual and societal multilingualism, including
language policy, linguistic human rights, and language education in higher
education.

Keynote Speakers:

Manuel Célio Conceição, President of the Conseil europeen pour les langues /
European Language Council (CEL/ELC), professor of French linguistics and
researcher at the University of Algarve, Portugal 
Jean-Marc Dewaele, President of the International Association of
Multilingualism, professor of Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism at
University of London, Birkbeck 
Rober Phillipson, Professor Emeritus at Copenhagen Business School, researcher
on linguistic imperialism and multilingual education 
Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, researcher and fighter for linguistic human rights,
professor Emerita at Roskilde University, Denmark

5 Reasons to Attend our Conferenceː

- Meet in person world-known researchers in linguistic human rights and
outstanding language policy researchers and developers
- Share your research insights within international community
- Discuss current issues of multilingualism with members of international
community
- Strengthen the existing and establish new partnerships in the international
research and education community
- Visit Lithuania – one of the three Baltic states, the country where the
oldest surviving Indo-European language is spoken


Call for Papers: 

VMU Institute of Foreign Languages (IFL) in cooperation with Language
Teachers’ Association of Lithuania (LKPA) are pleased to announce the 1st call
for proposals for the 4th VMU IFL and the 11th LKPA international conference
Sustainable Multilingualism 2017 which will be held on 26-27 May, 2017 at
Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania.

The conference aims at bringing together scholars and language education
professionals to share their research insights and discuss the issues relevant
to the development of individual and societal multilingualism, including
language policy, linguistic human rights, and language education in higher
education.

Conference Topics:

Submissions are welcome in (but not limited to) the following areas:

- Language policy
- Less widely taught languages
- Issues in minority language education
- Language teaching methodology in multilingual and multicultural environment
- Cultural challenges
- Challenges for Identity
- Multilingualism for business and in business
- Multilingualism and educational mobility
- Non-formal and informal development of plurilingual competence
- Innovations in language education
- Content and Language Integrated Learning
- Literature and multilingualism
- Issues in translation in multilingual environment

You are invited to contribute and submit your abstracts in both formats:

In person: oral or poster presentations.
Virtually: if you cannot attend in person.

Registration and abstract submissions open: 1 November, 2016.
Deadline for registration and abstract submissions: 1 February, 2017.
Notification of acceptance: 7 February, 2017.

Publicationsː 

The selected papers will be published in the international scientific journal
Sustainable Multilingualism (www.uki.vdu.lt/sm), indexed in MLA, C.E.E.O.L.,
Google Scholar. Since 2017, Sustainable Multilingualism will be published by
De Gryuter Open.
Print copy: ISSN 2335-2019 Online copy: ISSN 2335-2027
Journal website: http://uki.vdu.lt/sm
Authors of accepted conference contributions may submit their full papers to
be considered for publication in the 10th issue of Sustainable
Multilingualism, May, 2017. Deadline for manuscript submissions is 1 April,
2017.
Conference webpage: http://daugiakalbyste.vdu.lt




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