Call for Papers

International Conference - Prague, 22-23 June 2017

Intercultural Communicative Competence - A Competitive Advantage for Global Employability

In the highly competitive environment of the globalised world, higher education necessarily faces ever-present challenges such as linguistic and extra-linguistic communication barriers, cultural stereotyping, cross-cultural prejudices, identity conflicts and/or L2 deficiency, which compound the lack of skills to interact successfully. The acquisition of intercultural communicative competence becomes a key professional skill and a primary success factor for university educators, graduates, and researchers in the field, as well as business professionals, international employers, or HR specialists.

Addressing these concerns, the ICCAGE conference will contribute to the on-going debate on intercultural language/ communicative skills, and various innovative teaching and training approaches to ICC including global mobility, intercultural mediation and telecollaboration, and in and out-of classroom methodologies. The conference will offer an opportunity to share/present experience, develop interdisciplinary networks, and foster cooperation by sharing knowledge and best practices essential for further development and innovation.

Leaflet of the International Conference

We invite papers in English of 20 minutes length, with possible topics including

(but not being limited to):

Perspectives on intercultural language learning/teaching
Current theories of language and intercultural communication
ICC best practices
Innovative ICC content, course activities and materials
Tellecolaborative practice and research

Trans-national mobilities

Important dates:

If you wish to participate without presenting, registration is open now.
If you wish to present a paper or poster, please attach a 150 - 200-word abstract to the registration form or send it to iccage.conference2017@muvs.cvut.cz . Abstract submission deadline 28 February 2017. We do not accept abstracts after the deadline.
If you wish your paper to be considered for publication, please send the full paper (3000 - 3500 words) by 1 May 2017.

Selected papers will be published in a reviewed collection of essays

The conference is free for registered participants thanks to the funding by the Erasmus+ KA2 Programme No 2015-1-CZ01-KA203-013992.

The conference is held under the auspices of prof. Ing. Petr Konvalinka, CSc, Rector of the Czech Technical University in Prague, and doc. Ing. Lenka Švecová, PhD, Director of MIAS School of Business and Interdisciplinary Studies, Czech Technical University in Prague.

Organizer:

Czech Technical University in Prague

Masaryk Institute of Advanced Studies

Kolejní 2637/2a

160 00, Prague 6 - Dejvice

Czech Republic

Contact: iccage.conference2017@muvs.cvut.cz