Thematic Strands
Proposals will be evaluated and the conference will be organized according to the following thematic strands:
- First Language Acquisition (e.g. Child Language)
- Second Language Acquisition (e.g. Natural and Instructed L2 Learning, Child and Adult L2 Learning, Problems in Migrant Education)
- Mother Tongue Education
- Standard Language Education
- Foreign Language Teaching and Teacher Education (e.g. Methodology, Syllabus Design, Learning and Teaching Materials)
- Contrastive Linguistics and Error Analysis
- Language Evaluation, Assessment and Testing
- Educational Technology and Language Learning
- Learner Autonomy in Language Learning
- Language and Education in Multilingual Settings (e.g. Immersion Education)
- Written and Visual Literacy
- Discourse Analysis, Rhetoric and Stylistics
- Business Communication (e.g. Communication in the Professions, Language for Special Purposes)
- Translating, Interpreting and Mediation
- Multimodality in Discourse and Text (e.g. Language and the Media)
- Sociolinguistics (e.g. Language Contact and Language Change, Language Mixing, Language Planning, Language and Gender)
- Language Policy
- Multilingualism and Multiculturalism
- Intercultural Communication
- Lexicography and Lexicology
- Psycholinguistics (e.g. Language Production and Language Comprehension)
- The potential of linguistic diversity in Europe
- Other