Interconnected Learning and Teaching in the Post-Pandemic Era. Trends and Challenges in Teaching Foreign Languages (ILT) International Conference

Considering the latest technological and multimedia developments, as well as the post-pandemic context, one may notice the appearance of new digital forms of intercultural communication, of knowledge transfer and of data illustration and storage. This accelerated multimedia development of the society and of the labor market alike influences the general framework of the transfer of knowledge and skills in the didactics of foreign languages, thus requiring interconnected approaches in the expansion of intercultural skills when learning foreign languages, both in schools and in universities.

We are pleased to invite you to engage in a constructive dialogue about the current trends and challenges of interconnected learning, in an international conference that aims at creating a genuine and productive network between teachers of different foreign languages, between representatives of various public and private educational institutions and between representatives of the labor market. In order to make this extensive and interconnected dialogue truly relevant, we look forward to papers and scientific contributions that could provide not only an impulse to the inter and transdisciplinary foreign language research and teaching, but also an overview of the implications upon the practice and the tendencies regarding the educational policy on a regional, national and international level. The focus of the discussions should lie on current research trends and the associated theory / model formation, as well as on the latest technological and multimedia challenges for educational policy and practice in the context of foreign language teaching and research. 

We welcome papers that fall into one of the following areas of interest:          

• Trends and challenges in foreign language teaching: children and adult education:  skills transfer, learning environment, social forms, internal differentiation, learner autonomy, hard and soft skills transfer etc.
• Language and culture: cross-cultural communication, cultural awareness, linguistic landscapes, inter and transdisciplinary approaches.
• Media and technology in the foreign language course: adaptive learning, online / offline resources, augmented and virtual reality, gamification as part of the course, blended learning.
• University didactics: the role of teaching language, literature and cultural studies, knowledge vs. skills in university didactics, lesson planning, multimedia approach, informal studying, inter and transdisciplinary approaches, connection to the labor market needs.
• LSP didactics: Communication and language for specific purposes, translations and interpreting, cross-cultural communication, dual study.
• National and international educational policy for foreign language teaching: role of foreign languages in school education and training, development of international, national and regional curricula, current trends in the assessment practice, internal differentiation.