CALL FOR PAPERS

The 6^th International Conference SUSTAINABLE MULTILINGUALISM 2021

June 4-5, 2021

The Institute of Foreign Languages of Vytautas Magnus University and the Language Teachers’ Association of Lithuania cordially invite you to the SUSTAINABLE MULTILINGUALISM conference, which will be held online.

AIM & THEMES OF THE CONFERENCE

The conference aims to provide a common platform for researchers, language policy makers, language teachers, students, and anyone interested in discussing and sharing their expertise in the key issues of multilingualism, including but not limited to:

· Language policy implementation (regional, national, institutional levels)

· Language preservation, revitalization, linguistic human rights

· Less widely spoken & taught languages

· Minority & regional languages

· Psycholinguistic perspectives of multilingualism

· Contemporary Lithuanian language studies

· Issues in translation and interpreting

· Virtual language teaching & learning

· Innovations in classroom language teaching & learning

· Plurilingual approach to language teaching & learning

· Linguistically sensitive teaching

· Content and Language Integrated Learning

· Intercultural communication in language teaching & learning

· Teaching and learning mediation competences

· Formative assessment

· Language teacher professional competence development

LANGUAGES

Conference languages: English & Lithuanian

Presentation session languages: English, French, German, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Russian, Spanish

IMPORTANT DATES

Registration & abstract submission by April 1, extension of deadline – April 20

Notification of acceptance within 2 weeks

CONFERENCES FEES

SUBMISSION

· Abstract Guidelines

· Requirements for virtual & poster presentations

· Accepted abstracts will be published in the online conference Book of Abstracts with ISBN

· A full article may be submitted to the journal SUSTAINABLE MULTILINGUALISM, which is indexed in Scopus. Manuscripts are accepted all year round.

· Registration