This virtual event replaces the 5th physical onsite International Language Week (ILW) including Intercultural Communication that has had to be postponed until November 2021. The past four ILWs were hosted by the initiator Aschaffenburg UAS in 2015 & 2017, by the National Taipei University of Business/Taiwan in 2018 and by the Montana State University Billings/USA.

Just like the onsite ILW, the virtual ILDs will be arranged for university-level instructors and trainers who teach and do research in the fields of Business, Real Estate, Legal or Technical English, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Chinese, Japanese and German as a Foreign Language or any other language as well as Intercultural Communication and Cross-Cultural Edutainment/Gamification.

For further questions, please contact the Vice Head of the Language Centre, initiator and organiser of the conference, Prof. Dr. Renate Link, on renate.linkth-abde

The keynote on the first of the two ILDs will focus on the trends and challenges of multilingualism.

The keynote on the second of the two ILDs will explore fault lines and sources of misunderstandings in virtual cross-cultural communication situations, and in general, in order to increase the awareness of potential pitfalls and vaccinate the participants against them.

We are looking forward to receiving your submissions related to the conference motto “Viral Collaboration = Virtual Miscommunication?” as well as Best Practices of “Virtual Mobility”/COIL (Collaborative Online International Learning) and Online Edutainment/Gamification Formats via the following online form in the following three formats:

... according to the IMRAD structure (Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion). Length: max. 300 words excluding references. Please observe that you have 20 minutes for the presentation followed by a 10-minute discussion.

... designed as a hands-on presentation with interactive elements. In your proposal, please highlight the goals, the interactive elements of your presentation as well as the reasons for your approach, method, or model. Length: max. 300 words excluding references. Please observe that you have 20 minutes for the presentation followed by a 10-minute discussion.

This is the most flexible and creative submission format, but you are asked to focus on delivering an interactive workshop. This workshop could be conducted in one or several breakout rooms. The description of the workshop should include the goals, an outline of the activities and chances, but also the challenges of application in the virtual context. Length: max. 300 words excluding references. Please note that you have a maximum of 30 minutes.