5th International Language in Focus Conference (LIF2018)

We accept proposals that address, but are not limited to, the following themes:

• Foreign Language Teacher Education

• SLA / ELT focused theories and research (productive and receptive skills, linguistic and communicative competences, code-switching, classroom interaction analysis, assessment and evaluation, curriculum development)

• ICT in Language Teaching

• Psychological and psycholinguistic perspectives in SLA / ELT (attitudinal patterns, motivation, individual learner differences, learning strategies, learner autonomy)

• Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) + Content and Language Integrated Learning in German (CLILiG)

• Multilingualism / bilingualism

• Sociolinguistic theories and research (quantitative and qualitative approaches to the study of language, ethnographic and anthropological approaches to the study of language; language contact)

• Socio-cultural considerations (intercultural competence development, multiculturalism in theory and practice, ethnic/language minority classrooms)

• Corpus Linguistics and Learner Corpora

• Syntax and interfaces with morphology and semantics

• Lexical processing

• Phonological processing

• Cross-linguistic influences

• Discourse analysis

• Translation and interpreting

• Educational language policies