CIEL Centre, “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia

in cooperation with

 

University of Madeira, Portugal

International Burch University, Bosnia and Herzegovina

College of Applied Studies for Preschool Teachers "Mihailo Palov" in Vrsac, Serbia

International Burch University, Bosnia and Herzegovina

University of East Sarajevo, Pale Faculty of Philosophy, Bosnia and Herzegovina

 The Romanian Society for English and American Studies (RSEAS)

The European Society for the Study of English (ESSE)

 

are organising

 

The 11th Conference on Linguistic and Intercultural Education – CLIE-2021

 Alba Iulia, 17 – 18 December, 2021

 

Special theme: Challenges of on-line pedagogy and research in linguistic and intercultural education

 

 

Dear colleagues,

We are honoured to invite you to the eleventh edition of the Conference on Linguistic and Intercultural Education – CLIE-2021, Alba Iulia, 17 - 18 December 2021.

 

CLIE – 2021 continues the successful series of international conferences and workshops organised by dedicated linguists and educators since 2008:

1.      The 1st International Conference on Linguistic and Intercultural Education (CLIE-2008), 27-29 November 2008

Venue and host institution: University of Alba Iulia, Romania

Special theme: Multilingualism and plurilingualism, migrants" languages, minority languages

2.      The Exploratory Workshop (CLIE-2009): Linguistic and Intercultural Education in the Process of Europeanisation of Higher Education, 21-23 May 2009

Venue and host institution: University of Alba Iulia, Romania

3.      The 2nd International Conference on Linguistic and Intercultural Education (CLIE-2010), 10-12 June 2010

Venue: Hotel Plaža, Herceg Novi, Montenegro

Host institution: Institute of Foreign Languages, University of Montenegro

Special theme: Linguistic and cultural diversity within European learning communities: cross-cultural and trans-national perspectives

4.      The 4th ENIEDA Conference on Linguistic and Intercultural Education, 29 September-1 October 2011

Venue: Hotel Srbija, Vršac, Serbia

Host institution: Teacher Training College, Vršac, Serbia

Special Themes: Negotiating and constructing European identities across languages and cultures

5.      The Exploratory Workshop (CLIE-2015): Linguistic and Intercultural Education in the Process of Internationalisation of Higher Education, 26-28 March 2015

Venue and host institution: University of Alba Iulia, Romania

Special Theme: Including an ‘intercultural dimension’ in the internationalisation of teaching, learning and research

6.      The 6th edition of the Conference on Linguistic and Intercultural Education – CLIE-2016, Alba Iulia, 20 - 22 April, 2016

Venue and host institution: University of Alba Iulia, Romania

Special Theme: Intercultural education for Europe to address the migrant issue

7.      The 7th edition of the Conference on Linguistic and Intercultural Education – CLIE-2017, Alba Iulia, 16 - 18 June, 2017

Venue and host institution: University of Alba Iulia, Romania

Special Theme: Linguistic creativity in intercultural pragmatics

8.      The 8^th edition of the Conference on Linguistic and Intercultural Education – CLIE-2018, Alba Iulia, 5 - 7 July, 2018

Venue and host institution: University of Alba Iulia, Romania

Special Theme: In Varietate Concordia – A Hundred Years of Romania

9.      The 9^th edition of the Conference on Linguistic and Intercultural Education – CLIE-2019, Alba Iulia, 4 - 6 July, 2019

Venue and host institution: University of Alba Iulia, Romania

Special Theme: Fostering linguistic diversity to preserve cultural heritage

10.   The 10^th edition of the Conference on Linguistic and Intercultural Education – CLIE-2020, Alba Iulia, 16-17 October, 2020

Special Theme: Metaphors in the time of Coronavirus

 

We warmheartedly invite you to give presentations in the Conference on Linguistic and Intercultural Education – CLIE-2021 and engage in the open forum which will address the challenges faced by the globalising culture and education nowadays.

 

Please send us your proposals (name and affiliation, title, 500-word abstract, 5 key words, 5-10 references – APA style of referencing) by 29^th of November 2021. Your abstract should include your problem statement and research objectives, research methods and instruments, key results and conclusion.

Letters of acceptance will be sent by 6^th of December 2021.

Please send your full contributions (5000 words) to be considered for post-conference publication by 28^th of February 2022. 

 

A selection of (extended) papers (5000-9000 words) will be published in the Journal of Linguistic and Intercultural Education - JoLIE 2022, which is indexed by ERIH Plus, EBSCO, ProQuest, MLA Directory of Periodicals, Cabell’s Directories, Ulrichs Web, The Linguist List. (Please see http://jolie.uab.ro/)

Additionally, a peer-reviewed selection of conference papers will be published in a monographic collection produced by a reputable international publisher.

Further details will follow in due time.

 

 

PROGRAMME OVERVIEW

 

Conference on Linguistic and Intercultural Education – CLIE-2021:

Alba Iulia, 17 - 18 December, 2021

 

 

Conference aims and scope:

 

Affiliated with 1 Decembrie 1918 University of Alba Iulia, Romania, situated in Central Europe, at the crossroads between Romance, Slavic, German and Hungarian cultures and languages, the CIEL Centre has been long activating in the field of language education, intercultural awareness-raising and active citizenship promotion. Its members, academics, practitioners and researchers alike, understand linguistic and intercultural education as paramount to constructing a global citizenship of culturally competent and aware individuals who display cultural insights and a sense of belonging to the humanity at large.

 

CLIE-2021 aims at investigating the far-reaching implications of moving instruction and research in the online medium. In particular, public discourses that tend to politicise online learning, possibly attaching to it a stigma of being lower quality than face-to-face learning might prove disturbing and demotivating for the main actors in education and research. Indeed, technical or administrative hurdles have impeded a swift transition to fully remote teaching, learning and research (ensuring the shift to synchronous video – Zoom, MS Teams, Google Meet), the implementation of adequate measures for equitable access (reliable computers and broadband, support for students with disabilities, academic integrity assurance), foresight in terms of post-pandemic eLearning infrastructure. This year’s forum will address hands-on experiences and bring forth possible solutions.

 

The conference will host a section dedicated to doctoral students and junior researchers.

 

Conference topics:

-        Foreign/Second Language Teaching and Teacher Education;

-        Second Language Acquisition;

-        Intercultural pragmatics and Cultural linguistics;

-        Discourse Analysis, Rhetoric and Pragmatics;

-        Semantics and Stylistics;

-        Corpus and Computational linguistics;

-        Sociolinguistics;

-        Contrastive Linguistics;

-        Translating, Interpreting and Mediation;

-        Intercultural Business Communication.

 

Conference venue:

University of Alba Iulia, Romania (online platform: Microsoft Teams)

 

This year too, participation in the conference will be online, therefore it incurs no costs, as all materials will be electronic. However, the organisers will charge a publication and postage fee, which will be paid after the conference, only by the authors whose papers have been selected for publication.

Doctoral students and junior researchers can apply for a fee waiver.

 

Publication and postage fee – 50 Euro (for foreign participants).

                                                 – 100 lei (for Romanian participants).

 

Further instructions will follow in mid March, 2022.

 

 

 

Organising committee:

Professor Teodora Iordăchescu, Ph.Ed., Director of CIEL Centre, tpopescu@uab.ro

Dr. Crina HERŢEG, CIEL Centre, crina.herteg@uab.ro

Ph.D. student Adina BOTAŞ, “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia

Ph.D. student Alexandru SELYEM, “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia

Ph.D. student Andreea LAURENŢIU, “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia

Ph.D. student Gabriela CÂMPEAN, “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia

Ph.D. student Francisc HORVATH, “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia

MA student Diana AVRAM, “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia

 

Local Scientific Committee:

Professor Teodora Iordăchescu, Director of CIEL Centre

Professor Maria Ana TUPAN, “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia

Dr. Crina HERŢEG, CIEL Centre,

Dr. Grigore-Dan Iordăchescu, University of Alba Iulia, Romania

 

Scientific Committee:

Professor Mario BRDAR, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University, Osijek

Professor Vladimir ŽEGARAC, University of Madeira, Portugal

Professor Ştefan OLTEAN, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Professor Felix NICOLAU, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain

Professor Giacomo FERRARI, Amedeo Avogadro University, Italy

Professor Igor LAKIĆ, University of Montenegro

Professor Mariana NEAGU, “Dunărea de Jos” University of Galaţi, Romania

Assoc. Professor Jelena PRTLJAGA, College of Applied Studies for Preschool Teachers "Mihailo Palov" in Vrsac, Serbia

Professor Cristiana-Nicola TEODORESCU, University of Craiova

Professor Titela VÎLCEANU, University of Craiova

Assoc. Professor Mădălina CERBAN, University of Craiova

Assoc. Professor Senad BECIROVIĆ, Burch International University, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Dr. Vildana DUBRAVAC, Burch International University, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Dr. Žana GAVRILOVIĆ, University of East Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Dr. Aleksandra GOJKOV RAJIĆ, College of Applied Studies for Preschool Teachers "Mihailo Palov" in Vrsac, Serbia

Dr. Eufrozina GREONJANC, College of Applied Studies for Preschool Teachers "Mihailo Palov" in Vrsac, Serbia

Dr. Monika KOPYTOWSKA, University of Lodz, Poland

Dr. Svetlana KURTEŠ, University of Madeira, Portugal

Dr. Anabella Gloria NICULESCU-GORPIN, "Iorgu Iordan - Al. Rosetti" Institute of Linguistics of the Romanian Academy

Dr. Alcina SOUSA, University of Madeira, Portugal

Dr. Branduša ŽUJKA, College of Applied Studies for Preschool Teachers "Mihailo Palov" in Vrsac, Serbia

 

CONTACT

 

Queries should be directed to:

Conference secretariat: clie@uab.ro

Teodora IORDĂCHESCU (Conference Chair), e-mail: tpopescu@uab.ro

Crina HERŢEG (Conference Co-Chair), e-mail: crina.herteg@uab.ro

 

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