LTV Conference 2026: Thriving Through Languages

Monday 30 November

Venue: Catholic Leadership Centre, 576 Victoria Parade East Melbourne

Time: 8:45am – 4:15pm

Cost:

LTV Members $185
Non-members $285
Pre-service teachers $30 (and claim $30 discount on your 2027 LTV membership)

This year’s theme, Thriving through Languages, recognises the powerful role that Languages Education plays in shaping inclusive, engaged, connected and thriving communities.

Our Keynote address “Sustainable Language Learning in the Age of Generative AI”, will be presented by Dr Angel Lim, a pioneering figure in plurilingual education and critical literacies, whose work has transformed approaches to language teaching and learning globally.

LTV Annual General Meeting: 4:30pm – 5:15pm. All conference attendees are welcome to attend the AGM

Full Program Coming Soon

Keynote Speaker: Dr Angel Lin

Sustainable Language Learning in the Age of Generative AI

The monolingual bias remains deeply embedded in languages classrooms, positioning students’ existing linguistic repertoires as obstacles rather than assets. Drawing on three decades of classroom-based research, this keynote argues that contemporary theories, which focus on moving across and combining different communication systems (spoken words, written text, gestures, body language, images, and digital tools, etc.), provide a culturally responsive, teacher-actionable approach for disrupting this monolingual bias.

Rather than advocating unstructured “anything goes” pedagogy, Professor Lin will present a planning cycle that offers structured yet flexible spaces where students explore, decontextualize and then recontextualize language/text, and expand their meaning-making across languages, registers, and modalities. Professor Lin advances this through Jay Lemke’s (2026) Living SuperVector Theory, which reconceptualizes human and generative AI meaning-making as the dynamic navigation of all linguistic, visual, embodied, and affective resources.

Viewing learner cognition and GenAI as navigating shared ‘supervector spaces’ reframes pedagogy as dynamic navigation through a seamless ecology of rich resources. Professor Lin will conclude by illustrating how this integrated framework can inform curriculum design and assessment that sustains metalinguistic curiosity and re-center students’ multilingual assets in an AI-mediated landscape.

About Dr Angel Lin

Dr. Angel M. Y. Lin stands as a pioneering figure in plurilingual education and critical literacies, whose work has transformed approaches to language teaching and learning globally. Currently serving as Chair Professor of Language, Literacy and Social Semiotics in Education at the Education University of Hong Kong, she previously held the prestigious Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Plurilingual and Intercultural Education at Simon Fraser University (2018-2024).

Submit a Workshop Proposal

We’re excited to invite passionate Languages educators, leaders and partners to contribute to the 2026 LTV Annual Conference.

From leadership strategies to quality classroom practices, we encourage you to share your thinking, experience and practical strategies for supporting students to thrive through Languages.

Workshop proposals are due by COB Friday 25th September.

Non-commercial presenters whose workshop proposals are included in the program are able to register for the conference at no cost (Up to 2 co-presenters per workshop).

Exhibit at the Conference

The LTV Annual Conference is a great place to show teachers of languages how your organisation can support languages teaching and learning.

Commercial exhibitors may propose a workshop to be included in the commercial stream of the conference program at no extra cost.

For enquiries, contact info@ltv.au

LTV Conference 2026: Thriving Through Languages

Monday 30 November

Full Program Coming Soon

Keynote Speaker: Dr Angel Lin

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