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CCERBAL 2025 CONFERENCE

Bilingualism and multilingualism: Diverse perspectives from diverse contexts

Conference dates: May 8 - 10, 2025

 

Call for proposals

Conference Format : Options to participate both in person or online will be available

 

Plenary Speakers Confirmed to date

Dr. Rahat Zaidi (University of Calgary)  

Dr. Fanny Meunier (Université Catholique de Louvain)  

Dr. Vanessa Taler (University of Ottawa)

 

Conference Chairs:

Dr. Valia Spiliotopoulos (University of Ottawa), Dr. Geneviève Brisson (University of Sherbrooke)  

Call

The focus of the CCERBAL 2025 Conference will be on conceptual, empirical, and practice-based contributions on language and technology, Indigenous language education, language and immigration and/or internationalization, language learning across the life span, language policy, and beyond. This call welcomes a wide variety of interdisciplinary submissions which may (but are notrequired to) address the following three overlapping themes:

Language and technology : The conference welcomes submissions on this theme, especially within the context of Artificial Intelligence and following the COVID pandemic. Over the last 5 years, a range of fully on-line and hybrid delivery options for language learning and teaching have come to the forefront in education and in society more generally. These submissions can include affordances and challenges of technology-based contexts, and philosophical or conceptual questions on the role of technology and AI in language learning and teaching.

Language, immigration, and internationalization : These inter-related themes are important considerations in a growing Canadian population, and are related to global migration patterns, internationalization in secondary and post-secondary education, and mobility trends. The conference welcomes submissions that share research on the topics of global diversity and inclusion, migration of refugees, immigration in French-Canadian and French language minority contexts, the empowerment of plurilingual migrant populations (from school age to adult learners), as well as language use and development across the life span.

Indigenous Language Education and Revitalization : This theme is at the forefront of a social justice agenda in Canada and in other countries that share history of colonization.  Research and perspectives on maintaining, revitalizing, and sharing Indigenous language and culture, as well as Indigenous perspectives in language education and language teacher education are welcome and strongly encouraged. 

Non-exhaustive list of topics:

  • Language teaching and learning in K-12, higher education, and in and for workplace contexts  

  • Language, technology, artificial intelligence (AI), gamification, fully on-line and hybrid language learning, digital citizenship  

  • Languages of schooling, immersion studies, bilingual and multilingual education, language intensive programs 

  • Indigenous language education and language revitalization, Indigeneity and language teacher education, Indigenized curriculum development and delivery 

  • Official languages, Heritage languages, Modern languages, Indigenous languages, Minority languages, Languages other than English (LOTE) 

  • Language, immigration, internationalization, and mobility  

  • Language policy and family language policy  

  • Links between home languages and school languages   

  • Flexible, experiential, community-based, and informal language learning  

  • Linguistic security/insecurity  

  • Linguistic risk-taking  

  • Language use and development across the lifespan  

  • Critical language studies 

  • Language and Race 

  • Language and gender 

  • Academic literacies, multiliteracies, and multimodality  

  • Plurilingualism, multilingualism, translanguaging  

  • Language assessment 

  • Canadian Language Benchmarks/CEFR and its companion volume  

  • Psychology of language learning, emotions, positive psychology  

  • Nurturing the next generation of language researchers and teachers   

  • Language and intercultural education; value-based curricula, democracy, and peace buildingthough language teaching and learning 

  • Language and inclusion, social justice, and equity

Format of submissions: oral presentations, posters, roundtables, thematic symposia, and workshops. Options to participate both in person and online will be available.

Important Dates:

Submissions open: Sept 23, 2025  

Submissions close: November 30, 2025  

Acceptance notifications and registration: early 2025  

Conference dates: May 8 - 10, 2025  

Venue: Canadian Centre for Studies and Research on Bilingualism and Language Planning (CCERBAL), Official Languages and Bilingualism Institute (OLBI), University of Ottawa.  

Featured Events: Plenary sessions, round tables and thematic symposia, professional development workshops; social activities (in person and online), and much more.  

Submit a proposal to the CCERBAL Conference

For more information, please contact us at the following address: ccerbal@uOttawa.ca
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