LANGUAGES AND PEOPLE
The 7th International Conference of Applied Linguistics Languages and People was held from 25–27 September 2025 at the Faculty of Philology, Vilnius University, Lithuania.
Papers, posters, and thematic workshops covered a range of disciplines, including sociolinguistics, language policy, discourse analysis, translation, linguistic pragmatics, language acquisition, language teaching and learning, lexicography, corpus linguistics, cognitive linguistics, and more.
Xiao Lan Curdt-Christiansen’s Plenary Presentation
Elizabeth Lanza’s Plenary Presentation
Li Wei’s Plenary Presentation
Keynote Speakers
Xiao Lan Curdt-Christiansen
University of Bath
(United Kingdom)
Xiao Lan Curdt-Christiansen is Professor in Applied Linguistics at the Department of Education, Director for Research in Education in China and East Asia (CRECEA), University of Bath, UK. Her research interests encompass ideological, sociocultural-cognitive and policy perspectives on children’s multilingual education and biliteracy development. As an active researcher, she has examined bi/multilingual community-home-school contexts in the UK, Canada, China, France and Singapore on topics of curriculum policy, language-in-educational policy and family language policy. Her most recent research project is entitled Family Language Policy: A Multi-Level Investigation of Multilingual Practices in Transnational Families, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).
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Elizabeth Lanza
University of Oslo
(Norway)
Elizabeth Lanza is Professor Emerita of Linguistics at University of Oslo, member of The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, and former Director of MultiLing – Center for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan, a Centre of Excellence funded by the Research Council of Norway. She has published widely on multilingualism, addressing issues of language socialization, family language policies and practices, migrant narratives, language ideology, language policy, linguistic landscape and research methodology. Her most recent publications include “Familyscapes, Multilingualism and Family Language Policy” with Kellie Gonçalves, in The Bloomsbury Handbook of Linguistic Landscapes (2024), and the special issue of Journal of Multilingual Theories and Practices: “Family Multilingualism: Decolonial and Southern Approaches” (2023), co-edited with Rafael Lomeu Gomes.
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Li Wei
University College London
(United Kingdom)
Professor Li Wei is Director and Dean of University College London (UCL) Institute of Education (IOE) – UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, where he also holds the Chair of Applied Linguistics. His research covers many different aspects of bi/ multilingualism, including the acquisition of multiple languages in childhood, family language policy, education policy and practice regarding bilingual and multilingual learners of minoritized and transnational backgrounds, and the cognitive benefits of language learning. He is co/author of over 20 books and edited collections and over 130 journal articles and book chapters. He is editor of the International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism and the Applied Linguistics Review. He has won the British Association of Applied Linguistics Book Prize twice, for the Blackwell Guide to Research Methods in Bilingualism and Multilingualism (with Melissa Moyer) and Translanguaging: Language, Bilingualism and Education (with Ofelia Garcia).
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