Overview

Themes and subthemes include, but are not limited to the following:

Communication for sustainable development

  • Communication in Business and Entrepreneurship
  • Strategic Organisational Communication
  • Environmental communication

Communication for empowerment

  • Marginalized Groups and Communication
  • Gendered Communication
  • Political rhetoric
  • Approaches / strategies for development communication
  • Development communication for southern Africa
  • Culture and Communication
  • Public rhetoric

Communication research

  • Research methodologies
  • Communication theories
  • Contemporary and emerging issues in communication research

Communication in the disciplines

  • Health Communication
  • Applied Linguistics
  • Emerging trends and applications in English for Specific Purposes

 

Contemporary issues in language education and applied linguistics

  • Education Policy, reforms and Leadership
  • Evaluation and Assessment of outcomes based language Learning
  • Teaching/Learning Theories and Models
  • Educational Transitions
  • Linguistic Identities (Monolingual, Bilingual and Multilingual)

Representation, discourse and communication

  • Persona
  • Identity representation/ positioning( writer, racial, sexual)
  • Gendered Communication

Technology, sustainable networking and applications

  • Blended Teaching and E-Learning
  • Mobile technologies and applications
  • Social media
  • Technology and Teacher Education
  • Multimodality
  • New Media Technologies and Emerging Literacies
  • Information Literacies

The confirmed plenary speakers:

Dr Paul Thompson, University of Birmingham Department of English Language and Linguistics, https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/elal/thompson-paul.aspx

Dr. Gabrielle Nudelman, University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment,  http://uct.academia.edu/GabrielleNudelman

Conference Registration Fees

  1. International Participants-300USD
  2. Early bird for International Participants-250USD
  3. Regional Participants (Africa)-200USD
  4. Early bird for regional participants-175USD
  5. Local Participants-P1500.00
  6. Students-P100

For any inquiries contact: Dr. L.E Seru at seru@mopipi.ub.bw or Ms. B. Tlhobogang at tlhobogangbk@ub.ac.bw.