The economic crisis has led to high unemployment in Greece and in the European South in general and therefore many young people leave their country in order to work in businesses either in Europe or on other continents. This mobility however, if regarded as a factor that promotes the professional competitiveness of young people, enriching their knowledge and skills abroad and allowing them to transfer their interlingual and intercultural experience to other businesses or back to their country, leads us to the conclusion that the knowledge of one or more foreign languages is one of the pillars of young people creativity and adaptation in the workplace.

Date : 15th October 2015 to 17th October 2015

Place : Greece, Igoumenitsa

Website :http://ba-afl.byethost13.com/wp/

Contact Person:Eleftheria Dogoriti

Description:

The economic crisis has led to high unemployment in Greece and in the European South in general and therefore many young people leave their country in order to work in businesses either in Europe or on other continents. This mobility however, if regarded as a factor that promotes the professional competitiveness of young people, enriching their knowledge and skills abroad and allowing them to transfer their interlingual and intercultural experience to other businesses or back to their country, leads us to the conclusion that the knowledge of one or more foreign languages is one of the pillars of young people’s creativity and adaptation in the workplace.

The economic crisis has led to high unemployment in Greece and in the European South in general and therefore many young people leave their country in order to work in businesses either in Europe or on other continents. This mobility however, if regarded as a factor that promotes the professional competitiveness of young people, enriching their knowledge and skills abroad and allowing them to transfer their interlingual and intercultural experience to other businesses or back to their country, leads us to the conclusion that the knowledge of one or more foreign languages is one of the pillars of young people creativity and adaptation in the workplace. will be held in Igoumenitsa,Greece on date 2015-10-17

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Deadline for abstracts/proposals : 15th August 2015

Keynote Speakers : Claudia V. Angelelli Jan Engberg Christopher Williams

Conference Highlights :The scientific community is invited to present relevant papers into three main topics: a) Working environment and languages for professional purposes, b) The Institutional role of languages for special purposes, c) Teaching LSP. The conference papers can be submitted in Greek or in English. The abstracts will be subject to blind peer-review. The same procedure will be followed for the final papers to be published in the journal INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE, TRANSLATION AND INTERCULTURAL COM

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