Integrating informal learning into formal language education: an introduction

Abstract

This volume collects selected papers from the 2017 Innovative Language Teaching and Learning at University conference (InnoConf), which took place on the 16th of June at The Open University. The theme of the conference was Integrating informal learning into formal language education. The aim of the conference was to engage in productive collaboration between language professionals to further equip students to succeed in our ever-growing landscape of formal and informal learning. Given the unprecedented amount of online resources and communities available to language learners, the conference focussed on exploring how language teachers are integrating these opportunities into their settings.