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The conference will examine the question of cross-cultural communication in a global context and the issues this raises, both at the policy-making level and institutional levels, for teachers of English and other modern languages. Such issues include the best means of achieving fluency in the target language, including the effective use of Information Technology (IT), and the implications this has for the training of both native and non-native instructors.

Also discussed will be the need for both linguistic and cross-cultural competence in the professional sphere and its relationship to economic development, as well as the changing global dynamic and its impacts, both positive and negative, on individual societies and their own linguistic heritage.