18 - 20 November 2015

11th International Language and

 Development Conference 

ON

"Multilingualism and Development"

• The issues that might be addressed include but are not limited to the following:
• Identifying and describing the linguistic implications of urbanisation
• The benefits of linguistic hyperdiversity
• Linguistic barriers experienced by migrant populations in urban contexts
• How schools, health clinics and other government services cater for speakers of dozens of different languages in super-diverse urban contexts
• The practice of MTB MLE - and the capacity of schools to provide it - in multilingual urban contexts
• Social division as an unintended consequence of MTB MLE in multilingual contexts
• Multilingualism in semi-urban and urban non-metropolitan contexts

"LANGUAGE, TECHNOLOGY AND 

MULTI-LITERACIES"

This sub-theme may explore issues such as (but not restricted) to the following:

• Digital media as threat or opportunity for minority languages
• Digital media and non-Latin-based writing systems
• The use of digital media at times of crisis and natural disasters, especially in multilingual societies
• Digital media and language choice in education
• Digital literacy, language and gender

"MULTILINGUALISM,

 MARGINALISATION 

AND EMPOWERMENT"

• The tension between ideas of ‘development’ and formal education systems
• Educating girls and empowering women in multilingual societies
• Endangered languages and endangered livelihoods
• Language, identity and violence
• The role of parents in multilingual contexts
• Multilingualism in rural contexts, particularly in the context of accessing markets
• Prospects for indigenous peoples and speakers of minority languages in multilingual nations
• The roles of English in multilingual developing countries: empowering or marginalising?
• Describing and responding to the phenomenon of low cost private English-medium schools catering to the economically marginalised

KEY DATES

• Call for submission of abstracts is now closed.
• Notifications of acceptance of speaker proposals: Monday 27 July
• Registrations open: Monday 27 July
• Last date for speakers to confirm participation: Friday 14 August
• Early bird registration deadline: Sunday 13 September (23:59 Indian Standard Time)
• Registrations close: Monday 2 November (23:59 Indian Standard Time)
• Conference: Wednesday 18 to Friday 20 November

For more information, write to LDC2015@in.britishcouncil.org

Visit to Register online: http://www.britishcouncil.in/