Maastricht University is very pleased to host the second international conference on Integrating Content and Language in Higher Education (ICLHE 2006), from June 28 to July 1, 2006.

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As a consequence of rapid change in higher education, universities are finding themselves increasingly engaged in competition for both students and staff. Competition is stimulating universities to offer programmes in other languages (especially English), and in many cases, successfully. However, as the implementation of multilingual programmes grows, so do the challenges universities face in offering such integrated education across the breadth of their educational provision. Hence universities will be looking for solid evidence of good practice elsewhere, especially grounded in research. This is what ICLHE 2006 was designed to address.

ICLHE 2006 thus focuses on the integration of disciplinary content learning and language learning in universities and other institutes of higher education. In particular, following on from the ICL 2003 Conference, it highlights research into issues affecting higher education learning through a foreign language.  

ICLHE 2006 addresses key issues:

1.       educational approaches that promote the integration of content and language in higher education

2.       content adaptations as a result of learning a foreign language and of having a multicultural/multilingual student population and academic staff, including facilitating access to higher education for speakers of minority languages

3.       course and programme design, especially master's programmes, promoting the development of writing and research skills

4.       evaluation and assessment of multilingual programmes

The conference opened on the evening of Wednesday 28 June 2006. Keynote addresses and contributed papers, workshops and colloquia were presented on Thursday 29, Friday 30 June, and the morning of Saturday 1 July 2006.

Pre-conference workshops were organized on Wednesday 28 June 2006.