ELF14 2024 Conference Programme

Locations

● City Centre Campus (Hybernská 1009/24, Prague 1)
● Faculty of Arts (nám. Jana Palacha 1/2, Prague 1)
● TBA
● TBA

Wednesday September 11

17:00—19:00 ●
Pre-registration and Welcome Drinks

Thursday September 12

08:30—09:15 ● Registration and Coffee Pitstop
09:15—09:30 ● Symbolic Handover from ELF13 (Wenli Tsou) / Conference Opening (Veronika Quinn Novotná and Jiřina Dunková + hosting institutions: Peter Howe and Jakub Rákosník)
09:30—10:20 ● Where Are We? Where Are We Going? The Past, Present, and Future of English(es) and ELF Research joint plenary with a summary — convened by B. Seidlhofer with M. Dewey, M.–L. Pitzl
10:30—11:30 ● AI Technologies & Present Day English/Language Learning & Theory joint plenary with a summary — AI experts: F. Doušek and more
11:30—12:00 ● → ● Transfer to Prague City University
Room 101 (meeting room)	Room 102 (PhD session)	Room 103 (colloquium) stream + offline	Room 105	Room 106	Room 108	Room 109
		12:00—13:30 ● Colloquium — ELF and AI & English (LF/GL) convened by A. Gruber \| participants: F. Doušek	12:00—13:30 ● Current and Future Directions for Global Englishes/ELF Intervention Research in Language Curricula H. Rose
13:30—14:30 ● Lunch Break
		14:30—15:00 ● ELF and ELF Communication from a Psycholinguistic Speaker Perspectives plenary — K. Kohn
		15:00—16:30 ● Colloquium — Professional Identities of ELF-aware Teachers convened by N. Sifakis \| panelists: E. Llurda and I. Pineda
16:45—17:15 ● Coffee Break
	17:15—18:15 ● Poster Session	17:15—18:15 ● Colloquium — Professional Identities of ELF-aware teachers (continued) convened by N. Sifakis \| panelists: E. Llurda and I. Pineda		17:15—18:15 ● PhD Projects & Discussion: Sociolinguistics / CA moderated by ELF experts	17:15—18:15 ● PhD Projects & Discussion: Corpora moderated by ELF experts	17:15—18:15 ● PhD Projects & Discussion: Teaching moderated by ELF experts Bayyurt, Sifakis, Dewey, Galloway, Blair
19:30—20:30 ● Concert — Talks — Drinks

Friday September 13

09:00—09:45 ● Plenary and Short Discussion ELF & Teacher Communities and Critical Pedagogy A. Cogo
09:50—10:20 ● “Polarity thinking, liminal spaces, and ELF: Moving from ‘either; or’ to ‘both; and’” E. Crisfield
10:30—11:00 ● “Unpacking Teacher Resistance to ELF-aware Pedagogy: The Ethical Dimensions of Professional Identity” N. Sifakis, A. Georgountzou and N. Tsantila
11:00—11:30 ● → ● Transfer to Prague City University
Room 101 (meeting room)	Room 102 (PhD session)	Room 103 (colloquium)	Room 105	Room 106	Room 108	Room 109
		11:30—12:30 ● Colloquium — Virtual English as a Lingua Franca (VELF) convened by I. Pineda	11:30—13:30 ● ELF and ELT: Facing the Challenges Ahead convened by E. Grazzi \| panelists: M. Dewey, Y. Bayyurt, L. Cavalheiro, S. Siqueira and A. Blair	11:30—13:30 ● AI v přípravách na hodiny cizích jazyků facilitator: K. Appelová (seminar will be in English, please bring your own device)	11:30—12:25 ● Workshop I: ELF&Literature facilitator: J. Quinn	11:30—12:25 ● Workshop XI: Comprehensibility as a teaching and learning objective facilitators: P. Tavakoli and S. Cooke


		12:30—14:00 ● Colloquium — ELF and Trans/Intercultural Communication convened by W. Baker			12:30—13:30 ● Workshop II: Teaching ELF & Literature facilitator: Š. Císařová


13:30—15:00 Lunch Break
		15:00—15:55 ● Colloquium — ELF, Language and Race: Voices and Perspectives from the Global South convened by S. Rudwick	15:00—17:00 ● Workshop XI: Umělá inteligence ve výuce cizích jazyků. Praktické ukázky. facilitator: D. Kubová (workshop will be mostly in Czech, please bring your own device)	15:00—15:55 ● Workshop VIII: Speaker Emancipation through Pedagogical Lingua Franca Immersion facilitator: K. Kohn	15:00—15:55 ● Workshop III: Literature in High School English Lessons: Beyond Standard English facilitator: M. Hovorka	15:00—15:55 ● ELF-aware pedagogy for English language teachers facilitator: E. Kemaloglu-Er
		16:00—17:15 ● Colloquium — Language (In)equalities and Multilingual Identities convened by M. Saraceni and C. Belanger		16:00—17:00 ● Workshop: VI: Changing Englishes: An Online Course for Teachers: facilitator: T. Sherman	16:00—17:00 ● Workshop IV: ELF through the lens of the Language Management Framework facilitator: T. Sherman	16:00—17:00 ● Workshop VII: ELF-aware course material preparation and evaluation for English facilitator: K. Yagar Besen & E. Kemaloglu-Er
17:00—17:30 ● Coffee Break
		17:30—18:30 ● Colloquium — “ELF and Decoloniality” or “ELF and Latin America” convened by S. Moran Panero	17:30—18:30 ● Session — “Exchange of Views” with H. Widdowson		Workshop X: Implementing findings from ELF corpora in ELT17:30—18:30 ● with M. Duruttya	17:30—18:30 ● Workshop XII: BELF-aware L2 pragmatics EFL lesson activities based on TBLT with M. Liyanage
20:00—02:00 ● Gala Dinner

Saturday September 14

09:00—09:40 ● Aula Plenary — Y. Bayyurt — The Intersection between English as a Lingua Franca and Disciplinary Literacies in Higher Education
Aula	P111	P116	P209	Corridor
09:45—11:00 ● Plenary — ESP Professional Development Design: A Disciplinary Literacy Approach convened by W. Tsou	09:45—11:00 ● Poster Session	Sponsored Sessions	09:45—10:15 ● Adapting ELT class material within the ELF-awareness perspective: Voices from multilingual classrooms N. Tsantila, M. Glava and E. Pramateftaki	Sponsored Sessions
			10:30—11:00 ● Promoting socio-phonological sensitivity in multicultural ELT through an ELF-Aware Teacher Education course N. Tsantila, A. Georgountzou
11:00—11:30 ● Coffee Break
11:30—12:30 ● “Paradigms at a crossroads” — Fireside Chat 1 — 1×1 or 1×2 members (TBA)
12:30—13:15 ● Q&A
13:15—13:30 ● Closing Remarks and ELF15 2026 Announcement