2023 Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum (CLAC) Conference

Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum (CLAC) is a curricular framework that provides opportunities to develop and apply language and intercultural competence within all academic disciplines through the use of multilingual resources and the inclusion of multiple cultural perspectives (https://clacconsortium.org/about-2/defining-clac/). CLAC, as a pedagogical concept and framework for curriculum development, emphasizes the fact the language learning cannot be confined to language- specific classrooms in isolation from other disciplines because language acquisition and linguistic skills become effective when integrated with subject-specific teaching.

CLAC programs play an important role in education. When integrated, languages, cultures and the subject matter simultaneously enrich each other, help learners attain better conceptual clarity, and facilitate acquiring linguistic capabilities through meaningful use of the language and content knowledge (Singh & Greeta, 2021). The 2023 CLAC Conference seeks proposals that showcase best practices in interdisciplinary approaches in teaching CLAC.