Overview

About the conference

The Department of Language and Literacy Skills of the University of Botswana is excited to announce a call for proposals for the 6th International Conference on Academic and Professional Communication (ICAPC), slated for 6 – 8 July 2027. The ICAPC is a biennial academic event that responds to the growth of academic literacy and professional communication as research areas.

Theme: Human Digital and Artificial: Reimagining academic and professional communication in the age of AI

Subthemes

  1. Academic communication and EAP: Academic writing, academic reading, critical literacy, oral communication and presentations, grammar and vocabulary for academic purposes
  2. Academic Literacies and Discourse Studies: Literacy as social practice, Power, identity, and access in Higher Education, Institutional discourse, Institutional language norms and gatekeeping, The politics of knowledge production and academic publishing
  3. Disciplinary and Professional Communication: Workplace literacies, Home literacies, Media literacies, Law discourses, STEM discourses, Business discourses, Health discourses, Education discourses
  4. Intercultural, Multilingual and transnational: Language in education, Indigenous literacies, Mother tongue education, English Medium Instruction pedagogy, Code switching and Translanguaging, English as a lingua Franca in academic settings, Language policy and Ideology, Cross cultural professional communication, Multilingual academic practices
  5. Digital, AI, and Multmodal Literacies: ICT and identity, Information literacy, AI assisted reading and writing, AI assisted writing and publishing, New technologies in education, Digital academic literacies, Digital feedback, Digital learning analytics, Ethical implications of AI mediated communication, Human – AI collaboration in academic and professional communication, Generative AI and academic integrity, Future skills for academic and professional communication
  6. Assessment, Pedagogy and Academic Development: Teaching and Learning, Learning and teaching resources, Learner motivation, Feedback, supervision, and mentoring practices, Staff development in Assessment, Academic literacy development in Higher Education
  7. Interdisciplinary/Transdisciplinary Perspectives of Academic and Professional Communication