ESRC Seminar series The Multilingual University: The impact of linguistic diversity in higher education in English-dominant and EMI contexts
Final conference: The linguistic landscape in higher education in English dominant and EMI settings: Future directions
UCL Institute of Education 8-9 July 2016
Day 1: Friday 8 July 2016
9.15 Registration and tea/ coffee (room 639)
Morning session (Room 642)
10.00 Welcome and introduction: Siân Preece
10.10-11.10 Keynote
Karen M. Lauridsen (Centre for Teaching and Learning, School of Business and Social Sciences, Aarhus University Denmark)
Languages + Internationalisation and the multilingual university
11.10 Coffee/ tea (Room 639)
11.30-13.00 Parallel papers
| Session A Chair: Li Wei (Room 642) | Session B Chair: Joanna McPake (Room 802) | |
| 11.30-12.00 | John Pill (American University of Beirut)
Connecting test and context: revising an English language admissions test at an EMI university in Lebanon |
Clare Dalziel and Francesca Helm (University of Padova)
From prohibition to choice: Exploring language practices in an Italian university |
| 12.00-12.30 | Penny Kinnear (University of Toronto)
Early English language assessment to improve first-year success of engineering students |
Reka Jablonkai (University of Hertfordshire)
EMI programmes at a Hungarian university: the lecturers’ perspective |
| 12.30-13.00 | Saskia Van Viegen Stille, Valia Spiliotopolous and Joel Heng-Hartse, (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
Towards a disciplinary literacy approach to supporting EAL students in higher education |
Andy Kirkpatrick (Griffith University, Brisbane)
The increasing use of EMI in Asian Universities: challenges and prospects |
13.00 Lunch (Room 639)
Afternoon Session (room 642) Chair: David Block
14.00-15.00 Keynote
Steve Marshall (Simon Fraser University)
From celebrating multilingualism to promoting plurilingual pedagogy. A view from Canadian higher education.
15.00-15.45 Panel 1
UCL staff-student ChangeMakers Project team: Siân Preece (panel convenor), Arnaldo Griffin, Yu Hao and Gozzal Utemuratova (UCL IOE)
Making the most of linguistic diversity: the views and practices of bi/multilingual postgraduate students
15.45 Coffee/ tea (Room 639)
16.05 -17.05 Keynote
Kristina Hultgren (Open University)
EMI and multilingualism in non-English-dominant universities: reflecting on symptoms and root causes
17.05-17.30 Group discussion/ concluding remarks
17.30-18.30 Reception. All Welcome. Venue TBC
Day 2: Saturday 9 July
9.30-10.00 Registration (room 639)
Morning session (room 642) Chair: Siân Preece
10.00-10.55 Panel 2
Gillian Lazar (panel convenor, Middlessex University), Julio Gimenez (University of Westminster), Alexandra Pitt (Middlesex University), Victoria Odeniyi, (UCL IOE/ University of Leicester)
Widening (linguistic) participation and pedagogy for inclusion: ways forward
10.55 Coffee/ tea (Room 639)
11.15-12.45 Parallel papers
| Session A Chair: Adrian Blackledge (Rm 642) | Session B Chair: Li Wei (Rm 675) | |
| 11.15-11.45 | Diane Schmitt (Nottingham Trent University)
The language paradox in international education |
Stephen Evans (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Language in Hong Kong higher education: Perspectives on policy and practices in a time of transition |
| 11.45-12.15 | Luke Holmes (University of Birmingham)
Silence in the multilingual postgraduate classroom |
Fiona Dunn (University of Glasgow)
Normalising minority language usage among young Gaelic-speaking adults in Scotland |
| 12.15-12.45 | Bruce Russell (New College, University of Toronto) and Saskia Stille (Simon Fraser University)
Deepening aims of EAP: Supporting dynamic and complex bilingual competence needed for academic success in higher education |
Joanna McPake (University of Strathclyde), Fiona O’Hanlon (University of Edinburgh), Mary Andrew (University of Edinburgh), Ann Macdonald (University of Strathclyde) & Mona Wilson (University of Strathclyde)
Eadar-chànanachadh: Gaelic-medium teachers’ perspectives on translanguaging |
12.45 Lunch (Room 639)
Afternoon session (room 642) Chair: Angela Creese
13.45-14.45 Keynote
Jason Cenoz (University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU) and Durk Gorter (University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU & IKERBASQUE – Basque Foundation for Science)
Higher Education in the Basque Country: Revitalization and Internationalisation
14.45 Tea/ coffee
15.05 Final discussion led by ESRC seminar series investigators
16.00 Close
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