7th International Conference on Teaching English as a Foreign Language “Intercultural Language Education For Increased European Identity Cohesion”

TEFL 7 Intercultural language education for increased European identity and cohesion CETAPS – FCSH, Nova University Lisbon 9-10 November 2018

The European Commission has been working to establish a ‘European Education Area’ by 2025 and a specific issue under consideration is the learning of languages. Good language competences are seen as key in promoting the European integration process and a sense of European identity. However, as Professor Michael Byram, our keynote speaker, argues, “language teaching does not pay sufficient attention to learners’ cultural competence ‒ and neither does the EU. Linguistic competence is the almost exclusive focus of attention in teaching and, importantly, in assessment”. We propose TEFL 7 as a platform to reflect on how intercultural language education can address the responsibility of what it means to be European and of dealing with local and global realities, complexities, and perplexities, of belonging to 21st-century communities.

For further information see the conference website: http://www.cetaps.com/events/tefl7/   Avenida de Berna, 26-C / 1069-061 Lisbon Telephone: +351 21 790 83 00 Fax: +351 21 790 83 08