Language in Focus - International Conference 2019

LIF2019 - The 6th International Language in Focus Conference: “Language, Research, and Teaching in the 21st Century” is organized by Cukurova University – Turkey, The University of Sheffield International Faculty, CITY College – Greece and the South-East European Research Centre (SEERC), in Dubrovnik, Croatia on May 2-4, 2019. 


Annual International LIF Conferences have already become an academic platform for exchanging ideas, projects and scientific research between aspiring academics, teachers, university students and well-known researchers thanks to your invaluable contributions.

In harmony with this spirit of academic enthusiasm, we would like to invite academics, scholars, representatives of central and local educational authorities, non-governmental organizations, school teachers and practitioners representing an exciting diversity of countries, cultures, and religions to meet and exchange ideas and views in a forum encouraging respectful dialogue. LIF2019, to be held in Dubrovnik, Croatia, will constitute a great opportunity to meet experts in various areas of ELT and language studies.

 LIF2019 topics include (but are not limited to):

• ELT Methodology and Classroom Applications
• Foreign Language Teacher Education
• SLA / ELT focused theories
• ICT in Language Teaching
• Psychological and Psycholinguistic perspectives in SLA / ELT
• Content and Language Integrated Learning CLIL and CLILiG
• Multilingualism / Bilingualism
• Sociolinguistics
• Corpus Linguistics and Learner Corpora
• Syntax, Morphology, and Semantics
• Lexical Processing
• Phonology
• Discourse Analysis
• Translation and Interpreting
• Language Policies

The abstract submission deadline has been extended from December 14, 2018 to January 11, 2019. You can submit your abstract here.

Plenary Speakers:
David Singleton (Guest of honour), Trinity College Dublin, the University of Pannonia, Veszprém, Hungart and the State University of Applied Sciences, Konin, Poland
Guy Gook, King's College London, UK
Susan Hunston,  University of Birmingham, UK
Suzanne Romaine, University of Oxford, UK
Nina Spada, University of Toronto, Canada
Penny Ur, Oranim and Haifa University, Israel