Today’s world sees how online world influences the way we use language. Development in information technology changes interconnectivity and attitude toward linguistic norms. This situation has sparked interests in exploring language in the new atmosphere.

Responding to such interests, for the fourth time, the English Department of Petra Christian University hold a conference under the theme of Language in the Online and Offline World 4: The Latitude.

The objectives of this conference are challenging the ways people teach and study language and re-examining the studies of linguistic trends and practices in a globalized and digitalized world.

We expect that this conference will bring together multidisciplinary researches and perspectives on the social, pedagogic aspects and linguistic impacts of the online and offline use of language.

Papers are invited on the following sub-topics:
1. Innovative language teaching
2. Values in language teaching
3. Media and language creativity
4. Digital community and culture
5. Global-local nexus of communication
6. Discourses in classroom/media/the work place

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