• First Circular
• The 2024 ICFSLA First Circular is available here.
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Positive institutions, or “enabling institutions,” have been defined as “organizational structures that enable success and promote positive language learning environments” and “institutions that enable people to flourish” (MacIntyre & Mercer, 2014, pp. 154, 165) Together with emotions and individual characteristics, they are one of the main pillars of positive psychology, which has been currently heavily highlighted and promoted in the context of second language acquisition and foreign language learning. In this conference we would like to focus on all institutional frameworks which, in one way or another, support, facilitate and organise the process of learning/acquiring another language. This institutional support, whether formalised or informal, public or private, can take the form of communities, movements, organisations or even whole educational systems that promote positive language learning and teaching and contribute to their success. Positive institutions enable learners, teachers, and other members of the educational community to broaden their worldview, change ingrained mindsets, and identify personal strengths, capacity and virtues that might be easily transferrable into their everyday life (James & Seary, 2018). 

Plenary Speakers

Currently, we are happy to announce that the following scholars will present the keynote talks at the 35th ICFSLA conference:

Kata Csizér Wein (Eötvös Loránd University)

Melanie Ellis (Silesian University of Technology)

Steve Killick (University of South Wales)

Mirosław Pawlak (Adam Mickiewicz University)

Yolanda Ruiz de Zarobe (University of the Basque Country)