CCERBAL 2025 Conference: Bilingualism and multilingualism

Diverse perspectives from diverse contexts
May 8, 2025 to May 10, 2025 — All day

CCERBAL

OLBI

Official Languages and Bilingualism Institute

The focus of the CCERBAL 2025 Conference will be on conceptual, empirical, and practice-based contributions on language and technology, Indigenous language education, language and immigration and/or internationalization, language learning across the life span, language policy, and beyond.

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Overview

Language and technology : The conference welcomes submissions on this theme, especially within the context of Artificial Intelligence and following the COVID pandemic. Over the last 5 years, a range of fully on-line and hybrid delivery options for language learning and teaching have come to the forefront in education and in society more generally. These submissions can include affordances and challenges of technology-based contexts, and philosophical or conceptual questions on the role of technology and AI in language learning and teaching.

Language, immigration, and internationalization : These inter-related themes are important considerations in a growing Canadian population, and are related to global migration patterns, internationalization in secondary and post-secondary education, and mobility trends. The conference welcomes submissions that share research on the topics of global diversity and inclusion, migration of refugees, immigration in French-Canadian and French language minority contexts, the empowerment of plurilingual migrant populations (from school age to adult learners), as well as language use and development across the life span.

Indigenous Language Education and Revitalization : This theme is at the forefront of a social justice agenda in Canada and in other countries that share history of colonization. Research and perspectives on maintaining, revitalizing, and sharing Indigenous language and culture, as well as Indigenous perspectives in language education and language teacher education are welcome and strongly encouraged.

Dr. Rahat Zaidi

University of Calgary

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Dr. Fanny Meunier

Université Catholique de Louvain

Biography

Dr. Vanessa Taler

University of Ottawa

Biography

Accessibility

If you require accommodation, please contact the event host as soon as possible.

Non-exhaustive list of topics:

Language teaching and learning in K-12, higher education, and in and for workplace contexts

Language, technology, artificial intelligence (AI), gamification, fully on-line and hybrid language learning, digital citizenship

Languages of schooling, immersion studies, bilingual and multilingual education, language intensive programs

Indigenous language education and language revitalization, Indigeneity and language teacher education, Indigenized curriculum development and delivery

Official languages, Heritage languages, Modern languages, Indigenous languages, Minority languages, Languages other than English (LOTE)

Language, immigration, internationalization, and mobility

Language policy and family language policy

Links between home languages and school languages

Flexible, experiential, community-based, and informal language learning

Linguistic security/insecurity

Linguistic risk-taking

Language use and development across the lifespan

Critical language studies

Language and Race

Language and gender

Academic literacies, multiliteracies, and multimodality

Plurilingualism, multilingualism, translanguaging

Language assessment

Canadian Language Benchmarks/CEFR and its companion volume

Psychology of language learning, emotions, positive psychology

Nurturing the next generation of language researchers and teachers

Language and intercultural education; value-based curricula, democracy, and peace buildingthough language teaching and learning

Language and inclusion, social justice, and equity

Format of submissions: oral presentations, posters, roundtables, thematic symposia, and workshops. Options to participate both in person and online will be available.

Important Dates:

Submissions open: Sept 23, 2024

Submissions close: December 16, 2024

Acceptance notifications and registration: early 2025

Conference dates: May 8 - 10, 2025

Venue: Canadian Centre for Studies and Research on Bilingualism and Language Planning (CCERBAL), Official Languages and Bilingualism Institute (OLBI), University of Ottawa.

Featured Events: Plenary sessions, round tables and thematic symposia, professional development workshops; social activities (in person and online), and much more.

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For more information, please contact us at the following address: [email protected]