2019 – 26th Annual Conference, Berlin
03-05 May
Conference Programme
| Thursday, May 2, 2019 Arrival of Board members | |
| 17:00 – 20:00 | Board meeting & dinner afterwards |
| Friday, May 3, 2019 Arrival of delegates | |
| 10:00 | Registration of ICC members |
| 11:00 – 13:00 | EUROLTA planning meeting |
| 13:00 – 14:30 | Lunch (own costs) |
| from 13:00 | Registration of conference participants |
| 15:00 – 16:30 | Annual General Assembly |
| 16:30 – 17:00 | Coffee break |
| 17:00 – 19:00 | Keynote Speaker Bessie Dendrinos, President of the European Civil Society Platform for Multilingualism, Multilingual testing and assessment in multilingual and monolingual classrooms |
| 19:00 – 20:00 | Reception (included) |
| 20:00 | Dinner (own costs) |
| Saturday, May 4, 2019 | |
| 09:00 – 09:45 | Plenary Experiences with multilingual learners – Round table |
| 09:45 – 10:45 | 2 Workshops a) Rob Williams: Underpinning language competences b) Ileana Boeru: Multiligualism and gamification |
| 10:45 – 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 – 12:00 | 2 Workshops a) Matilde Grünhage-Monetti: From ‘language for work’ to ‘language through work’ in the context of migration and inclusion: The Language for Work Network and its tools for supporting work-related L2 development b) Sirje Jakobson: Study Quality Model and Guidelines for Teachers |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Plenary Talk & Panel discussion on Incorporating Cultural Awareness and Sensitivity into Language Education, Michael Carrier |
| 13:00 – 14:30 | Conference lunch (included in delegate fee) |
| 14:30 – 15:30 | 3 Workshops a) Monika Hrebackova: Redesigning language learning/ teaching through virtual exchange b) Ifigenia Georgiadou and Michalis Karakonstantis: Preparing teachers address the needs of their students through the EUROLTA methodology in Greece c) Nancy Kontomitrou: Die Evaluationskompetenz als wichtige Lehrkompetenz (will be presented in German) |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Coffee Break |
| 16:00 – 17:00 | 2 Workshops a) Giuseppe Trotta: Intercultural teaching practices in Italian L2 for refugees and language policy b) Evelyn Vovou & Prof. Dafni Wiedenmayer, University of Athens: Teaching for Symbolic Competence. Cultivating Teacher Awareness of Foreign Language Students’ Needs in Multilingual/ Multicultural Environments (will be presented in German) |
| 17:00-19:00 | Poster Presentation 1 Maria Kourtesi & Panagiota Moysiadou, Reimagining language education through the use of art and multicultural practices 2 Míriam Pérez Carrasco, Second language learning: finding ways to integrate successfully ICT resources and right strategies for language learning, translation and interpreting 3 Maria Skiada & Ifigenia Georgiadou Creative use of literature for L2 teaching 4 Desislava Karaasenova, Teaching across cultures: highlights from a study of academic mobility in higher education |
| 19:30 | Conference dinner (own costs) |
| Sunday, May 5, 2019 | |
| 09:00 – 10:30 | Plenary Speech Prof Thomas Tinnefeld: Learner Multilingualism – Students’ Attitudes and Institutional Requirements |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 – 11:45 | 2 Short Plenaries a) Barry Tomalin: Getting Reading Right – Critical Awareness in handling International Media b) Nilüfer Hatemi: Teaching Ottoman Turkish in the United States: Princeton University case study |
| 11:45 – 12:30 | 2 Workshops a) Martine Jago: Multilingualism in Early Childhood: Perceptions, Policy, and Practice |
| 12:30 – 13:00 | Farewell |
| 13:00 – 14:30 | Lunch (own costs) |
| 14:30 | Walking tour (optional, own costs) |