Date: 24-Jun-2010 – 26-Jun-2010
Location: Brussels, Belgium
Contact Person: Lieven Buysse
Meeting Email: lbehubrussel.be
Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Language
Acquisition; PragmaticsCall Deadline: 01-Mar-2010
Meeting Description:
The first international conference on ‘Languages in Business Education’ provides
a unique opportunity for all those involved in Languages and Business to
exchange ideas, share experiences and outline opportunities for future research.
Researchers are invited to submit abstracts and papers broadly consistent with
this conference’s topic.The conference is open to anybody involved in ‘language and business’ issues,
including both young and experienced researchers, PhD students, post-doctoral
researchers, and professionals from business, government and non-governmental
institutions. The conference will be in English, but research may be related to
any language.Call for Papers
Although all papers that fit the theme «Languages in Business Education» may be
submitted, the conference committee invites in particular proposals related to
themes such as the following:
– The interface of languages in business education and intercultural studies
– Acquisition of intercultural competence in business language training
– The place of languages in the curricula of business programmes
– Levels of language proficiency in business education
– CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) in business and intercultural
studies (e.g. implementation issues in tertiary education, teacher training and
syllabus/curriculum design at university level, study progress measurement
techniques)
Font: Albert Bastardas (CUSC)