THEME

THE ROLE OF LANGUAGES IN THE PURSUIT OF GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY

The quest for sustainability intensifies as the world grapples with challenges from all fronts. With 8 years to “end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that by 2030 all people enjoy peace and prosperity”, the world shoulders a huge challenge to achieve the SDGs. While it does not have a dedicated goal in the SDGs, language plays a significant role in creating, stating, interpreting, understanding, executing and evaluating the SDGs. 

However, so far, language only occupies the periphery of the development decision making realm, and in many ways, the absence of language on development discourse is viewed as a significant obstacle to progress. There is a need for stakeholders to reflect deeply on the relationship between language and development especially within the contexts of the SDGs. 

MAAL APC 2022 :  CONFERENCE SUB-THEMES

• Language and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 

• Language access and empowerment 

• Partnership and interaction in language 

• Linguistic challenges to national development and international collaborations 

• Inclusion, mobility and multilingual education 

• Sociolinguistics 

• Signlinguistics 

• Translanguaging & Transknowledging 

• Bilingualism and Multilingualism 

• Interlinguistics, Stylistics, and Pragmatics 

•  Forensic Linguistics 

• Language gender and discourse 

• Translation 

• Language Teaching and Learning 

• Language Teacher Education 

• Language Curriculum Development and Assessment 

• Language issues, challenges, and development in the following domains:- 

  • Political 

  • Economics 

  • Sociocultural 

  • Technology 

  • Legal 

  • Environmental