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
- International Participants-300USD
- Early bird for International Participants-250USD
- Regional Participants (Africa)-200USD
- Early bird for regional participants-175USD
- Local Participants-P1500.00
- Students-P100
For any inquiries contact: Dr. L.E Seru at seru@mopipi.ub.bw or Ms. B. Tlhobogang at tlhobogangbk@ub.ac.bw.