David Lasagabaster

Universidad del País Vasco

David is full Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of the Basque Country, where he received his PhD in 1997. He has been a visiting scholar at several universities,). He is a member of the editorial board of Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education (John Benjamins), International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, Porta Linguarum, and Rivista di Psicolinguistica Applicata/Journal of Applied Psycholinguistics. He was a member of the executive committee of the international Association for Language Awareness from 2008 to 2016. His research interests include bilingualism and multilingualism, language attitudes and motivation, EFL, CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning), EMI (English-medium Instruction), Internationalisation in Higher Education. He is currently working in two projects: Language and Speech – Established Research Group (Type A – Excellence) (2016-2021) and Team teaching in English-Medium instruction programmes at university: Fostering language and content teacher collaboration (2016-2020).

Plenary lecture:

Teaching history in English at university: An analysis of multimodal and multilingual practices

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Ute Smit

University of Vienna

Ute currently works at the Department of English Studies, University of Vienna. Ute does research on English used as a classroom language in various educational settings, by combining micro, meso and macro perspectives. Her publications deal with CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning), EMI (English Medium Instruction), ELF (English as a lingua franca), teacher beliefs and language policy. Recent projects are ‘Conceptualising CLIL’, ‘CLIL@HTL’ and ‘INTE-R.LICA.’ She was a co-founding member of the AILA Research Network on CLIL and Immersion Education, and is presently a board member of the ICLHE (Integrating Content and Language in Higher Education) Association.

Plenary lecture:

ROAD-MAPPING as a methodological tool for investigating English Medium Education in Internationalised Higher Education

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Angel M. Y. Lin

Simon Fraser University

Angel received her Ph.D. from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada in 1996. She is Professor in the Faculty of Education of Simon Fraser University. Before that she had taught in the City University of Hong Kong and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is well-respected for her versatile, interdisciplinary intellectual scholarship in discourse analysis, language and identity studies, bilingual education, academic literacies, new literacies, and youth cultural studies. She has published six research books and over ninety research articles and book chapters. She serves on the editorial boards of a number of international research journals including: Applied Linguistics, International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, Language and Education, Journal of Critical Discourse Studies, Pragmatics and Society, Critical Inquiry in Language Studies.

Plenary lecture:

Trans/languaging and Trans-semiotizing in the Dynamic Flow of Meaning Making: Implications for CLIL and Content-Based Classrooms

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