Conference Agenda

Session

Language policy and the value of English

Time:

Friday, 19/June/2026:

8:45am - 10:45am

Location: TB210

Presentations

8:45am - 9:15am

The Economic Value of English: Insights for Language-in-Education Policy

Jake Macmillan, Mina Patel

British Council

9:15am - 9:45am

What Language? Whose Language?

Rubina Khanam

University of Regina, Canada

9:45am - 10:15am

From Symbolic Bilingualism to Pedagogical Reality: Reframing EMI through Spolsky’s Language Policy Theory in China

Yunjia Xie, Sitong Wang

McGill University, Canada

10:15am - 10:45am

Pinpointing Neoliberal Discourses in Course Guides in Pakistan

Komal Waqar Ali

McGill University, Canada