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Building on UNESCO’s Languages Matter: Global Guidance on Multilingual Education (2025), the conference will examine how multilingualism shapes adult language learning and lifelong education, addressing classroom practice, workplace learning, teacher development and innovation. These educational dimensions are closely connected to broader social and economic realities: across Europe, persistent labour shortages and the growing demand for upskilling have made the integration of migrants and refugees into the workforce a priority. In this context, language proficiency is often the decisive step that allows individuals to access further training and employment opportunities. Switzerland’s multilingual environment, with German, French, Italian and Romansh, provides a particularly relevant setting in which to examine how inclusive approaches to adult language education can support participation, integration and employability.

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[…] Bringing together (early career) researchers and renowned international experts from diverse fields…
(linguistics, sociology, education, communication…), the summer school sets out to advance our
understanding of a range of interrelated dimensions of change in people’s interactional practices and
resources. These include how people change their interactional conduct as they learn a first or second
language or navigate a new professional context, how people adapt their mutual conduct based on
increased familiarity with each other and growing shared knowledge, and how whole communities of
practice (e.g., members of a given institution) change their communicative patterns across decades.
The summer school puts a special emphasis on the methodological challenges related to conducting
longitudinal Conversation Analysis – from data collection, through the establishment of collections to
data analysis and interpretation of results. The event comprises plenary lectures and hands-on training
sessions led by our invited speakers, work-in-progress presentations by PhD students, post-docs, and
other interested researchers, as well as time for group-work sessions and social gatherings. […]

Speakers

Prof. Steven Clayman (UCLA, United States)
Prof. Arnulf Deppermann (Leipzig Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Germany)
Prof. Pentti Haddington (Oulu Uni., Finland)
Prof. Simona Pekarek Doehler (U. Neuchâtel)
Assoc. Prof. Klara Skogmyr Marian (Stockholm U.)

Application deadline: 30 Sept. 2025

Participation fee: EUR 395 (including lodgin and food)

All the info on the website of Neuchâtel University

Programm and registration

Registration bis 10. Mai 2026