CALL FOR PAPERS

Past, present and future perspectives of European and national language policies

International conference



22 September 2023, Vlora, Albania

Deadline for submissions: 20 August 2023



The aim of this conference will be to gather together scholars, teacher educators, policy-makers, pre-service and in-service teachers from Albania and the WB region primarily but also worldwide to discuss the path of European and national language policies by reviewing them in the prospect of new developments and future contexts in Europe.



Some of the proposed topics for this conference include:

• Language policies and cultural identities

• CLIL research in Europe: Past, present, and future

• Migration, minorities and language education

• Emerging trends in policies and practices for multilingualism in Europe

• Past, present and future of ‘unity in diversity’ European idea

• Reviewing the European citizen’s linguistic profile

• The position of ‘migrant,’ ‘immigrant,’ ‘community’ languages

• Multilingual communication modes and channels

• Foreign language teaching in Higher Education

• Age factor and language learning in Europe



Papers are welcomed from but are not limited to:

• Language Teaching

• Cultural Studies

• Intercultural Communication

• Intercultural Education

• Communication Studies

• Media Studies

• Discourse Analysis

• Pragmatics

• Linguistics

• Semiotics

• Applied Linguistics



Please send your abstracts (about 250 words) for papers (20 min) as an MS word attachment to the following email address (jmm_folate@univlora.edu.al) by 20 August 2023. Abstracts should include:

title of paper

name and affiliation

e-mail address

section

3-5 keywords

The conference languages are English and Italian. A selection of papers will be published after the conference.