Who needs languages?

The conference offers fresh outlooks on language education policy, acknowledging its multidisciplinary and multidimensional nature, and its social, cultural and economic dimensions. Where and by whom are language education policy decisions made, explicitly and/or implicitly? How do educational systems respond to challenges of multilingual societies? Critical views will be presented in order to understand the current developments and challenges of language education from both micro and macro perspectives.

The programme of the conference consists of plenary sessions, invited workshops, parallel paper sessions, and poster sessions. We encourage participants to discuss issues which focus on the conference theme. Proposals for papers (20 min + 10 min for discussion) and posters should not exceed 500 words. The paper and poster proposals are submitted via the conference website. The submissions open November 1, 2009.