L'università di Saarbrücken organizza la sesta edizione delle sue conferenze sull'insegnamento delle lingue straniere, dedicata quest'anno al tema:

Communication across Borders  

Teaching, Learning and Speaking the Languages of the World 

27 - 29 Oktober 2021 (online)

call deadline: 30 June 2021

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Estratto del temario:

Communication today may be more borderless than in any other era of human history. Whether via apps such as Skype, WhatsApp, WeChat or LINE, whether via blogs and Instagram - the connections between people on a linguistic level are more diverse today than ever before, and this development has sped up since the pandemic started in 2020. 

The aspects […] that are of central interest for the 6th Saarbrücken Conference on Foreign Language Teaching […] can be listed as follows: 

§   Linguistic aspects of (international) communication

§   Developing the ability to communicate internationally in and through foreign language teaching

§   Communication-enhancing teacher-and-learner interaction

§   Communicative change - yesterday and today

§   Borderlessness and communicative change in times of the pandemic

§   Going virtual as a new form of borderlessness

§   Borderless multilingualism

§   Borderless orality and writing

§   Bilingual Lessons and CLIL

§   Communication by means of language mediation

§   Contrastive approaches for teaching and learning foreign languages

§   The role of (digital) media in international communication

§   Student and adult mobility

§   Intercultural aspects of cross-border communication

§   International aspects of languages for specific-purposes (research) 

§   Autonomous forms of learning (e.g. blended learning, learning using apps) for the acquisition of foreign languages outside the classroom

§   Language policy and borderlessness

§   Borderlessness with respect to migration

§   Language philosophy and “borderless” thinking

§   Approaches to the conference topic in different countries and their educational institutions