2027 ATHENS
API FORUM CONFERENCE

Towards plurilingual, action-oriented language education:
Fostering teacher and learner agency

2ⁿᵈ API Education Conference
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
24-25 June 2027

In a world that seems increasingly marked by tensions and xenophobia, plurilingual and intercultural education together with protection of fundamental human rights like language rights have become critical. Action-oriented, plurilingual and inter/pluricultural education promotes inclusivity, openness and social justice in a holistic approach to language education. It promotes a coherent approach to language across the curriculum from the language of schooling to all other languages – home language(s), minority languages and additional languages – encouraging teachers and learners to value linguistic and cultural diversity as educational enrichment. Research increasingly supports a complex vision of language education highlighting the fluid and socially constructed nature of language, the learning process and the role of learners in the class. Meanwhile educational practices are embracing innovative approaches that make space for learners’ agency by accepting such complexity rather than aiming for simplification and linearity, and see linguistic and cultural diversity as an opportunity on which to build a mediated collaborative and personally meaningful education.

API Education Forum, an international community of academics, teachers, teacher educators, curriculum developers, administrators, and policy makers from over 25 different countries, aligns itself with this new dynamic vision and fosters exchange and synergies between scholarly research, educational practice and language policies. The main mission of the Forum is the promotion of action- oriented, plurilingual and intercultural (API) education to help further inclusive societies that provide quality education and social justice for all.

Following API Forum’s successful launching conference in Rome in 2025, we are excited to announce that the 2nd API Education Conference, Towards plurilingual, action-oriented language education: Fostering teacher and learner agency will be held at  the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Faculty of Philosophy on June 24-25.

The conference will provide the  opportunities for scholars, students and practitioners to share presentations on aspects of action-oriented plurilingual and intercultural education as well as state-of-the art relevant recent and forthcoming research, projects and publications. The API Conference will enable researchers, practitioners and language stakeholders to critically reflect on current developments in the field of language education and on promising educational practices while encouraging reciprocal relationships and the creation of synergies between research and practice in the supportive environment of a growing community. The conference will be in hybrid format (in person/online) to encourage different forms of participation.

We invite you to submit contributions for presentations and posters in which participants will discuss new avenues of research and practice, including the following themes:

• • • Plurilingual and intercultural education across educational contexts
    • Designing and implementing plurilingual education programmes in school and higher education
    • Using CEFR descriptors for plurilingual curriculum design and assessment
    • Inclusive language education policies and practices
    • CEFR-informed classroom practices, e.g., scenario design and continuous assessment
    • Valuing learners’ linguistic and cultural repertoires
    • Supporting languages of origin and heritage languages in education
    • Teacher education for plurilingual and action-oriented pedagogy
    • Teachers plurilingual repertoires and classroom practice
    • Teachers’ and learners’ agency in plurilingual learning environments
    • Innovative practices in action-oriented language teaching and assessment
    • Mediation,
    • Intercomprehension and cross-linguistic practices in teaching and assessment
    • CLIL and plurilingual, action-oriented approaches
    • Plurilingualism in minority language and bilingual education contexts
    • Plurilingualism for decolonization and social justice in language education
    • Plurilingualism, digital technologies and AI in language educationIn this plurilingual conference, there will be presentations in languages other than English and speakers will be urged to use more than one language (e.g. presenting in English and having their PowerPoint in another language or vice-versa). There will also be discussion groups in different languages.

      With its diverse programme featuring plenary sessions, presentations, roundtable discussions, poster sessions, and social events, the API Conference offers a unique opportunity for scholars, graduate students, practitioners and other stakeholders engaged in language education from all over the world to connect, share insights, and discuss their research. It also serves as a platform for participants to establish and expand academic networking for future collaborations.

Registration

Conditions of Sale:
Conference registration fees are non-refundable in the case of non -attendance after registration for the conference; however, in such a case any payment for the conference dinner will be refunded on request.

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Fees:

• 60 € – Attendance in person
• 40 € – Attendance online
• 20 € – Student and/or Athens school teacher attending in person
•     1€ – Student attending online

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