During the annual RANACLES congress, teachers and researchers involved in higher education language centres meet to share their innovations and latest research.

In 2018, the Université de Strasbourg will host the 26th Congress, thereby granting the opportunity to review the Language Resource Centres (LRC) after a quarter century of activity. Designed with a view to providing learners access to lifelong language learning, the LRCs seek to encourage learner autonomy (Albero & Poteaux, 2010; Poteaux, 2014).

Jointly organized by the Department of University-wide Language Provision (Lansad) and the Language didactics (Didactique des langues) team of the Linguistics, Languages, Speech (Linguistique, Langues, Parole – LiLPa) research unit, this Congress calls for participation and collaborative reflection that will lead to the theorisation of practices in the field.