6th International Conference of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF6)

Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy, 4-7 September 2013 The 6th International Conference of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF6), INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION: NEW PERSPECTIVES FROM ELF (Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy, 4-7 September 2013) follows on from the highly successful first five conferences in the series, held at the universities of Helsinki (2008), Southampton (2009), Vienna (2010), Hong Kong Institute of Education (2011), Istanbul (2012). The special theme of the conference is INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION. However, the conference is open to all other ELF related topics such as: ELF and intercultural communication Theoretical approaches to ELF ELF and Language Policy ELF and Language Education ELF description & Corpora The Sociolinguistics of ELF Contact languages and ELF ELF Assessment and evaluation ELF and Multilingualism Pedagogical implications for ELF ELF learners