Sprak sa in i Norden - Call for Papers

Each year the Swedish Language Teachers’ Association arranges a conference, most recently Uppdrag sprak (Mission: Language) in Uppsala. In 2016 we are going Nordic. In collaboration with the language teachers’ associations of the Nordic countries and other partners we invite you to the conference:

Sprak sa in i Norden/ Languages Go Far in the North,18-19 April 2016, Stockholm

The aims and purpose of the conference are as follows:

. To raise the status of languages in the Nordic countries and increase public awareness about the importance and benefits of language skills in each country.

. To promote a Nordic spirit of cultural and linguistic community.

. To spread knowledge of the collaboration between the Nordic countries, and of the goals and efforts of the Nordic council.

. To increase knowledge and awareness of the importance of multilingualism for  cognitive skills, economic growth and trade, mobility on the labour market,  tolerance and democracy, integration, research, and international cooperation.  

. To build and strengthen Nordic networks on several levels: teachers, research, labour unions, minority languages, etc.

. To offer qualitative and versatile in-service training for language teachers.

. To offer an opportunity to interact: to compare conditions and learn from each other regarding languages from the neighbouring countries, heritage-language teaching, school languages, multilingualism and validation, as well as steering documents, in-service training, languages offered, core curricula, ICT, internationalization, language methodology, and much more.

The conference will offer lectures in a number of different strands: a general strand, streams for research, labour unions, Nordic languages, immigrant languages, heritage languages, English, German, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, and Italian.
 
Deadline for paper proposals is September 1st 2015 by e-mail to spraksaininorden@spraklararna.se. Papers shall be written in the language to be used in the lecture. We reserve the right of selection.

Deadline for submissions to the conference publication is April 1st 2016 by e- mail to spraksaininorden@spraklararna.se.