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: TB446 |
| Date: Wednesday, 17/June/2026 | |
| 9:15am - 10:45am |
Language policy and practice in the virtual sphere Location: TB446 “Can language police shut up?!”: A sociolinguistic investigation of anti-language-policing videos across Chinese social media City University of Macau, Macau S.A.R. (China) 9:45am - 10:15am Visible and Invisible Language Regulation: Authority, Ideology, and Contestation in Virtual Spaces Washington and Lee University, United States of America 10:15am - 10:45am Regulating online hate speech in Canada: Legislative policymakers’ conceptions of speech management York University, Canada |
| 1:00pm - 3:00pm |
Minority language: the case of Kurdish Location: TB446 Constitutional Constraints and Linguistic Inequality: Policy Challenges of Kurdish Mother-Tongue Education in Turkey Self 1:30pm - 2:00pm Municipal Language Policy and Planning in Diyarbakır: Local Practices for Kurdish as a Non-Status Language 1: Kayapinar Municipality, Diyarbakir, Turkey; 2: Diyarbakir Metropolitan Municipality, Languge Development and Protection Department, Turkey (Türkiye) 2:00pm - 2:30pm From Policy to Practice: Implementing Kurdish Language Education in Iraqi Higher Education Salahaddin University-Erbil, Iraq, Iraq |
| 3:15pm - 5:15pm |
Language policy and multilingualism in Higher Education Location: TB446 “Language-in-Education Policy in Afghan Higher Education: Challenges and Opportunities.” Bamyan University, Afghanistan, Islamic Republic of 3:45pm - 4:15pm Multilingual Teaching as a Pathway to Social Justice in Higher Education Rhodes University, South Africa 4:15pm - 4:45pm Resisting linguistic discrimination: A systematic review of recommendations for policy and planning in higher education 1: McGill University, Canada; 2: University of Auckland, New Zealand; 3: Monash University, Australia 4:45pm - 5:15pm Enhancing Trilingualism for Sustainable Development: Assessing Language Policy in MOUAU Michael Okpara University of Agriculture,Umudike, Nigeria |
| Date: Thursday, 18/June/2026 | |
| 8:45am - 10:45am |
Social inclusion and linguistic justice Location: TB446 It’s All Connected: Language and Housing Activism and Policy in Wales University of Ottawa, Canada 9:15am - 9:45am Social inclusion in the global south: rethinking literacy in the island territory of Bonaire. University of Aruba, Aruba (The Netherlands) 9:45am - 10:15am Why do languages matter to people in medical encounters? Linguistic justice in Catalan healthcare Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain 10:15am - 10:45am An environmental scan of policies and interventions to improve access to dementia care for English-speaking minority communities in Quebec 1: Interdisciplinary School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa; 2: Department of Family Medicine, McGill University; 3: School of Public Health, University of Montreal; 4: Department of Psychology, McGill University |
| 11:00am - 12:30pm |
Language teaching and learning Location: TB446 Empowering Language Learners: Motivation and Identity in a Community ESL Context McGill University, Montreal, Canada 11:30am - 12:00pm Mapping Motivation in L2 Learning: A Case Study of International Students Learning German Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, Germany 12:00pm - 12:30pm Rethinking Deductive Grammar through Positive Psychology: Emotional Engagement in Language Learning 1: University of Ottawa, Canada; 2: University of Ottawa, Canada |
| 1:30pm - 3:30pm |
Family Language Policies Location: TB446 Immigrant Mothers Navigating Distance, Disruption, and Belonging: Family Language Policy amid Crisis-at-a-Distance University of Calgary, Canada 2:00pm - 2:30pm Official and family language policies in Nordfriesland and Fryslân 1: European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI), Germany; 2: Fryske Akademy / Mercator Research Centre, Netherlands; 3: Afûk, Netherlands; 4: Europa-Universität Flensburg, Germany 2:30pm - 3:00pm Sociolinguistic Motivation Shaping Family Language Policy in a Zapotec Community in Mexico National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico 3:00pm - 3:30pm Language Family Policies and Planning: Sustaining Heritage Languages in Multilingual Families Indiana University Bloomington, United States of America |
| Date: Friday, 19/June/2026 | |
| 8:45am - 10:45am |
Politiques linguistiques, diversité et inclusion Location: TB446 Entre normes et pratiques : mise en oeuvre des politiques linguistiques éducatives entre la ville de Santa Cruz et la Chiquitanie, à l’est de la Bolivie Université de Montréal, Canada 9:15am - 9:45am Étude des politiques linguistiques familiales face à la vulnérabilité linguistique dans la diaspora kurde : stratégies et motivations pour la transmission du kurde aux enfants Université Paul Valéry 3, France 9:45am - 10:15am Suspicion, altérisation et voix étouffées : analyse praxématique des discours publics et scolaires autour des MNA. Cas du projet d'un village MNA en Ile-de-France Laboratoire Lacnad, Inalco Paris et UVSQ, France |
| 1:00pm - 3:00pm |
Translanguaging Location: TB446 From Pedagogical Concept to Token of Commerce: Social Performance of Translanguaging on Xiaohongshu 1: University of Macau, Macau S.A.R. (China); 2: City University of Macau 1:30pm - 2:00pm Combating the Residual Impacts of English-Only Law, Proposition 227, in California Through Translanguaging California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, United States of America |