36.3173, Confs: Discoveries and Insights in Skills Training in Intergenerational Language Sustainability Conference (Canada)

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Subject: 36.3173, Confs: Discoveries and Insights in Skills Training in Intergenerational Language Sustainability Conference (Canada)

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Date: 20-Oct-2025
From: Darren Flavelle [dragons at ualberta.ca]
Subject: Discoveries and Insights in Skills Training in Intergenerational Language Sustainability Conference


Discoveries and Insights in Skills Training in Intergenerational
Language Sustainability Conference
Short Title: DISTILS-01
Theme: Conceptions of Intergenerational Language Sustainability Skills
Training: Best Practices and Innovations

Date: 04-May-2026 - 08-May-2026
Location: Edmonton, Canada
Contact: Darren Flavelle
Contact Email: distils at instils.org
Meeting URL: https://www.instils.org/distils

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; General Linguistics

Submission Deadline: 16-Jan-2026

INSTILS – the International Network for Skills Training in
Intergenerational Language Sustainability – invites you to its
inaugural conference on Discoveries and Insights in Skills Training in
Intergenerational Language Sustainability (DISTILS-01).
A key element of intergenerational language sustainability is building
capacity within communities to define and meet their own language
goals. To support these aspirations, numerous programs and initiatives
(including CoLang, ELDP, AILDI, NILI, CILLDI, and others) have been
developed around the world to offer skills training and support to
communities in various areas, including language documentation,
pedagogical methods, materials development, and community language
planning, to name just a few.
Despite this, the language revitalization literature has paid
comparatively little attention to critically analyzing these skills or
the ways in which they are taught. As a result, the very notion of an
ILS skill remains undertheorized, and a wide range of essential
questions remain unanswered, including:
- What are the ILS skills that communities most need? How might these
differ between communities at different stages of language
endangerment, or in different places across the globe?
- How can these skills be identified, categorized, and prioritized?
- What methods are most effective for providing this skills training
in a diverse range of learning environments?
- How can that knowledge be used to strengthen existing ILS
skills-training programs, and support the development of new ones?
This conference seeks to advance the theorization of ILS skills and to
lay a foundation for the further exploration of these questions.
Workshop:
Following the conference, INSTILS will host a two-day Workshop, May
7-8, where we will:
- synthesize the findings presented at the conference
- explore opportunities for research collaboration
- prepare the outline for a forthcoming edited volume
- highlight upcoming funding opportunities
- discuss creating a formal structure for the Network



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