Multidisciplinary Approaches in
Language Policy and Planning
Carleton University Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | June 17 - 19, 2026
Conference Agenda
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Session Overview | |
| Location: TB208 |
| Date: Wednesday, 17/June/2026 | |
| 9:15am - 10:45am |
Language Policy and Pedagogy Location: TB208 Enacting Equity in L2 Writing Assessment: Teacher Agency and Language Policy in Practice McGill University, Canada 9:45am - 10:15am From Theory to Practice: Negotiating Identity through Plurilingual Writing Pedagogy McGill University, Canada 10:15am - 10:45am Decolonising Language Education in South Asia: The Futurity of Critical Pedagogy and Social Justice in ELT Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, India, India |
| 1:00pm - 3:00pm |
Thematic Panel : Family Language Policy Location: TB208 Family Language Policy: Questions and Actions Presentations of the Symposium Language beliefs amongst parents raising bilingual children with different language constellations The impact of school-entry on parents’ beliefs about child multilingualism: A quantitative and qualitative analysis of concerns regarding multilingual child-rearing among parents in Quebec Balancing Research and Practical Advice in Family Language Policy: Insights from Ontario Families Sacred Language Anxiety in Immigrant Families from Indian background in Finland and Norway |
| 3:15pm - 5:15pm |
Thematic panel: Indigenous Language planning in Ontario Location: TB208 Indigenous language planning at different scales and spaces in southern Ontario Presentations of the Symposium Visiting and kitchen table logic: language planning among adult Anishinaabemowin learners Adult learners as contributors to Anishinaabemowin reclamation Being an Anishinaabemowin learner-teacher in universities and grassroots community spaces Understanding language ideologies in Kanien’kéha (Mohawk) adult language programs |
| Date: Thursday, 18/June/2026 | |
| 8:45am - 10:45am |
Thematic Panel: Migration and linguistic integration Location: TB208 Migration and linguistic integration: on the benefits of a normative language policy approach Presentations of the Symposium ‘Learn the language’? A normative language policy approach to the ethics of linguistic integration ‘I think that’s fair’: English proficiency and linguistic integration in England Linguistic integration in a globalised world: ethical challenges in intercultural Québec Linguistic justice in a bilingual sub-state: rethinking linguistic integration in Wales |
| 11:00am - 12:30pm |
Language policy, race and colonialism Location: TB208 What makes (a) language colonial? University of British Columbia, Canada 11:30am - 12:00pm Producing New Meanings of Language Policy: Oral History in the Intersection of Language and Race OISE / University of Toronto, Canada 12:00pm - 12:30pm ‘The way to proceed’: From the disconnect between systems to community proposals for the implementation of Indigenous Language policies in Manitoba 1: Central Connecticut State University; 2: Indigenous Services Canada; 3: University of IL- Chicago; 4: Hollow Water First Language, Elder Language Workgroup |
| 1:30pm - 3:30pm |
Language policy and planning and indigenous languages Location: TB208 Bannock, Tea and Teaching: Duoethnography and the Implications for Language Planning and Policy for Indigenous Languages University of Regina, Canada 2:00pm - 2:30pm Co-Constructing Visibility: Indigenous Language Speakers’ Perspectives in the Interactive Linguistic Landscape Project Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico 2:30pm - 3:00pm Supporting Indigenous Languages in Mexico through English Language Teaching: Curriculum and Language Planning 1: Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca; 2: Carleton University, Canada 3:00pm - 3:30pm Language Ideologies Of Atacamenean Women Towards The Ckunza Language in Chile Universidad de Antofagasta, Chile |
| Date: Friday, 19/June/2026 | |
| 1:00pm - 3:00pm |
Language ideologies and attitudes and language teaching Location: TB208 The appropriation of Intercultural Bilingual Education and language varieties in México: Teachers’ ideologies and discourses Universidad de Montemorelos, Mexico 1:30pm - 2:00pm Beyond the Rhetoric of Inclusion: Spanish as Heritage Language and the Language Policy in the Italian Educational Context University of Milan, Italy 2:00pm - 2:30pm Becoming English Language Teachers in Quebec: Revealing Pre-service Teachers' Entanglements through Multimodal Reflections McGill University, Canada 2:30pm - 3:00pm The challenges of language policy implementation: EFL lectures’ perspectives on translation use in the Kurdistan Region public universities classrooms 1: University of Sulaimani, Iraq; 2: Sulaimani Technical Institute, Iraq |
| 3:15pm - 5:15pm |
Roundtable Location: TB208 Cultivating Purpose and Belonging: Teacher Identity, Community, and Retention in Canadian ESL/FSL Contexts Presentations of the Symposium Resilience Through Connection: Supporting New ESL Teachers From Policy to Practice: Leadership & Innovation in FSL Possibilities for promoting retention across the FSL teaching career span Language Programs on Purpose, Not by Accident: Aligning Policy and Planning for Lasting Impact |