Presentation

From the perspective of verbal interaction and from the need to adapt teaching to the demands of our multilingual society, this congress aims to stimulate research and innovation on the teaching of different languages at any stage of education. The congress intends to be a meeting point for the different tendency and approaches concerned with elucidating the study of a language, teacher intervention, and students' learning strategies.

Contrary to the common trend of establishing watertight compartments between the subjects and the content of the language curriculum, the congress fundamentally aims to encourage the development of an integrated language didactics, highlighting those aspects that are common to the teaching in the context of our multilingual educational system. Thus, the intention is to privilege communicative and pragmatic proposals, which go beyond focusing on the study of language as a code or a series of rules, and postulate language diversity and usage as the central points of enquiry.

The congress pays especial attention to the contributions aimed at promoting critical literacy, in such a way that not only linguistic forms are contemplated, but also their close relation with cultural implications. Task-based planning, didactic projects and sequences, and the use of ICTs in education are also pressing issues in a meeting in which research is regarded as the indispensable means to improve the quality of education.

Within the congress, the symposium Methodology for the analysis ofinteraction and language learning will be held. The symposium is organised by the Seminar “The classroom as a research field for language teaching and learning”, composed of researchers from Spanish and foreign universities.