EDITORIAL | REDAKTORIAUS ŽODIS

Abstract

Sustainable multilingualism has become a motto and brand of the Institute of Foreign Languages at Vytautas Magnus University as these two words express the main domains where we actually devote all our efforts to: 1) development of plurilingual competence of our students, staff and community through teaching a great range of languages (around 20 languages are taught each semester from over 30 offered), i.e. creating conditions for the academic community to design their multiple language profiles or language constellations; 2) research into plurilingual competence development, plurilingual education, language policy, language ecology, preservation of languages, maintenance of minority and less spoken languages, helping them to be upheld and defended; 3) dissemination of research via two contemporary means of scholarly communication — publishing research studies in the biannual journal Sustainable Multilingualism and organizing biennial international conferences on the issues of sustainable multilingualism.