The Arqus European University Alliance, Leipzig University (Germany) and The Institute of Foreign Languages Faculty of Philology, Vilnius University (Lithuania) invites you to the 8th International scientific conference “Linguistic, Educational, and Intercultural Research 2021”, October 21-22, 2021. The conference will be held online.

Call for papers

CONFERENCE THEMES

• Linguistic Research: Cognitive Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Pragmatics, Corpus Linguistics, Lexicology, Meta-lexicography, Discourse studies/ Language in the Media, Public and other Types of Discourse
• Language Teaching and Learning: Language Acquisition, Language Testing and Assessment, Language Teacher Education, Language Teaching Methodology
• Innovation in Language Teaching and Learning: Online Language Teaching and Testing, Language Curriculum Development and Syllabus Design
• Language Policy: Multilingualism, Languages and Rights, Minority and Regional Languages
• Intercultural Education and Research
• Literary Research

The Institute of Foreign Languages of Vytautas Magnus University (VMU IFL), in cooperation with the Language Teachers’ Association of Lithuania, organizes the 6th International Scientific Conference “Sustainable Multilingualism” (Lith. Darnioji daugiakalbystė). The Conference will be held online on June 4-5, 2021. Abstracts are submitted by April 1.

The year of 2020 will be remembered for many reasons, the memories won‘t be all sweet….

But for the members of the Last Friday Reading Club, which has just marked its 1st anniversary,  this year is the year of „turning a new page“,  both figuratively and directly.

Set up last November, the Club has grown into a unique team of readers:  each with her own tastes and preferences, her own perceptions and visions, and all together – a joyful source of spiritual and professional growth.

This book presents a collection of research papers from both experienced and emerging scholars, some of whom presented their work at the international conference ‘Language Teaching and Learning in the 21st Century: Linguistic, Educational and Intercultural Aspects’ held in June 2018 and organised by the Institute of Foreign Languages of the Faculty of Philology of Vilnius University, the FIPLV Nordic-Baltic Region, and the Language Teachers’ Association of Lithuania. The book consists of three parts, the first being devoted to language teaching and teacher education. The second section explores literary and cultural issues, while the third part encompasses linguistic and media discourse studies.

Last Friday Reading Club presents a short report on what has been done / read / discussed so far:

• The LFRC members meet once a month (every last Friday) to discuss the book of their (democratic) choice. As stated in the Club invitation, preference is given to acknowledged contemporary writers from different countries and different cultures.
• The first four sessions were held in Menų spaustuvės Infoteka (menuspaustuve.lt); the latest session – March 27- was organized in three formats: FB group discussion, Skype chat, e-mail shared notes/impressions.
• Books and authors:

November 2019 – “Beguni” . O.Tokarczuk  („Bėgūnai”) ;

December 2019 – “El Amante Japones” . I. Allende („Meilužis japonas “)

January 2020 – “Dans le jardin de l’ogre”. L. Slimani („Žmogėdros sode”)

February 2020 – “The Garden of Evening Mists”. Tan Twan Eng („Vakaro Miglų sodas”)

March 2020 – “Geschichte vom alten Kind”. J. Erpenbeck  („Istorija apie seną vaiką”)

• At present there are 12 members; working languages are Lithuanian, English, Russian, French.

For further information contact Olga Medvedeva medolga0707@gmail.com