Full Title: 7th International Conference – Contemporary Challenges in LSP Teaching

Date: 13-Feb-2025 - 15-Feb-2025
Location: Split, Croatia
Contact Person: Drijenka Pandžić Kuliš
Meeting Email: [email protected]
Web Site: https://unjsvu.hr/en/conference-2025/

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; General Linguistics

Call Deadline: 15-Nov-2024

Meeting Description:

The conference brings together LSP practitioners who teach foreign language courses across a wide range of scientific disciplines at universities both locally and internationally. It provides an excellent opportunity for participants to share their research findings, discuss insights from their teaching practice, and reaffirm their strong commitment to the LSP profession.

The oral presentations, workshops, and poster sessions will address key issues in the theoretical and methodological aspects of LSP. These include general aspects of LSP, terminological challenges, teaching methodology, syllabus design, learning materials, assessment and evaluation in LSP, English as a lingua franca, the professional development of LSP teachers, and the socio-cultural context of LSP.

Registration and conference fees:

Early bird: 1 November 2024 – 31 December 2024
Conference fee: 150 €
Standard registration: 1 January 2025 – 1 February 2025
Conference fee: 180 €
The conference fee includes a conference kit, a certificate of attendance, coffee breaks, conference dinner on the first conference day, lunch on the second conference day and a guided tour of Split.

Abstract submission deadline: 14 October 2024 – 15 November 2024
Notification of abstract acceptance: 1 December 2024

We welcome talks, workshops and posters that present theoretical and practical insights into the field of LSP including research studies, case reports, project presentations, reports on teaching methods, commentaries and opinions.
The thematic areas of the conference:
- GENERAL ASPECTS OF LSP: genre analysis, discourse analysis, corpus analysis, needs analysis
- TERMINOLOGICAL CHALLENGES: theoretical aspects of terminology as a discipline, terminological theories and their application, terminology and lexicology, terminography and lexicography, psycholinguistics and terminology acquisition, cognitive aspects of LSP teaching, conceptualization and lexicalization in LSP teaching and learning, acquisition of LSP terminology, translation in LSP
- CHALLENGES IN TEACHING METHODOLOGY: LSP teaching in tertiary education, distance teaching/learning, digital technologies in LSP teaching, project-based learning in LSP communicative approach to LSP teaching, multimodal approach to LSP teaching, teaching LSP to students with visual impairment; deaf and hard-of-hearing students; students with dyslexia and dysgraphia, content and language integrated learning (CLIL)
- SYLLABUS AND LEARNING MATERIALS: materials development, materials evaluation, syllabus design, adapting syllabi and learning materials to distance learning
- ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION IN LSP: testing, evaluation and assessment (face-to-face, online)
- ENGLISH AS A LINGUA FRANCA: internationalization of higher education and LSP, English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI), English as a global language of science in the context of non-native English speakers’ needs.
- PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF LSP TEACHERS: development of LSP teacher competencies, research opportunities in LSP, LSP peer collaboration and institutional support, content and language teacher collaboration
- LSP AND ITS SOCIO-CULTURAL CONTEXT: sociological and cultural aspects of LSP, interdisciplinary aspects – synergy of the subject field and language
- ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN THE ACADEMIC ENVIRONMENT: the use of AI in ESP teaching and researching, ethical aspects of using AI tools in the ESP context
- OTHER LSP-RELATED TOPICS

Languages (abstracts, podium presentations and paper presentations): Croatian, English, German, Italian or French.

Oral presentations will be allocated 20 minutes plus 5 minutes for questions and discussion.
Workshops will be allocated 45 minutes.