ALA 2024 “Language Awareness, Education and Power”

17e conférence internationale de l’Association pour Language Awareness (ALA)

Due to the inherent multilingual and multicultural nature of many classrooms around the world, often in monolingual and monocultural institutional contexts, questions around which language(s) to use, to teach and to learn have regained new and important emphasis. These questions are directly related to issues of power and ideology. It is therefore time to take a closer look at the intricate interplay of factors contributing to the relationships between language(s), education and power and to discuss these issues in depth.

The ALA 2024 conference will offer symposia, workshops, roundtables, paper presentations, and poster presentations and accept proposals related to Language, Education and Power in the following areas:

– Language Awareness in Language Education, Teaching and Learning

– Language Awareness and Global Citizenship: Language Awareness in Political Institutions and Democratic Decision-Making Processes

– Language Awareness and the Media: Language Awareness in the Digital World

– Language Awareness and the Workplace: Language Awareness inBusiness, Marketing and Health Care

– Language Awareness, Media and Artificial Intelligence

– Critical Language Awareness and Language Awareness from a Decolonial Perspec