From 22 to 26 July 2019, the 54th International Congress of the European Association of Spanish Professors (LIV AEPE) took place in San Sebastian. It was organised by the European Association of Spanish Teachers, UPV/EHU (University of the Basque Country) and San Sebastian Summer Courses – UDA IKASTAROAK.

The congress is a meeting between professionals of Spanish teaching around the world, research, new technologies, linguistic, socio-economic, historical and socio-cultural situations of the Spanish language.

The AEPE congresses cover a wide range of possibilities concerning the world’s second most spoken language: communicative, technological, scientific, political, economic, artistic and cultural environments. Linguistic and communicative competences and skills, learning contexts, didactic innovation and intercultural aspects are the thematic lines of this congresses.

Thematic areas: Acquisition of Spanish as a first language (L1), Discourse analysis, Linguistic anthropology, Spanish as a foreign language (ELE), Spanish as a second language (EL2), Phonetics, Phonology, History of linguistics, Linguistic historiography, Lexicography, Lexicology, Historical linguistics, Romance linguistics, Rhetoric, Syntax, Sociolinguistics, Terminology, Translation, Varieties of Spanish.