Relevant topic areas of the Symposium include, but not limited to:
· Applied linguistics
. (Critical) discourse analysis
. Corpus linguistics
. Semantics and pragmatics
. Sociolinguistics across cultures
. Psycholinguistics and first language acquisition
. Foreign/second language acquisition
. Syntax and Phonology
Translation
· Cross-cultural communication and translation studies
· Literary translation
· Audio and visual translation
· Simultaneous and consecutive interpreting
· Translation curriculum development
· Criticism and literary theory
· Comparative literature
· Identity and cultural studies
· Feminist and gender studies
· Colonial and post-colonial literature
· Ethnicity and national identity
· Modern and postmodern literature
· World literature and indigenous studies
· Film studies
Teaching English as FL/SL
. Teaching language using technology
· Development of EFL/ESL competencies
· Teaching culture and language skills
· Teachers' and students' perspectives on teaching language
· New trends in foreign languages teaching
· Language learner autonomy
Important Dates