Programme | Language Centers at a Crossroads

Programme

	9:00-12:30	14:00-18:30	19:00
9 de septiembre	Reuniones de los Comités de CercleS, talleres pre-congreso	Reuniones de los Comités de CercleS, talleres pre-congreso	Recepción pre-congreso
10 de septiembre	inauguracion + plenaria, sesiones paralelas	plenaria, sesiones paralelas	Recepción con copa de bienvenida
11 de septiembre	plenaria, sesiones paralelas	plenaria, sesiones paralelas	Cena social
12 de septiembre	plenaria, sesiones paralelas, clausura	14:00-20:00 Excursión virtual después del congreso a Lednice (UNESCO)

Wednesday 9 September

13:00–14:00

Welcome CercleS Coordinating Committee

14:00–17:00

CercleS Coordinating Committee Meeting

17:30–18:30

CercleS General Meeting

14:00–15:30

Pre-conference Workshops I

14:00–16:00

CercleS Focus Group

15:30–16:00

16:00–17:30

Pre-conference Workshops II

19:00–

Pre-conference Drink

Thursday 10 September

8:00–8:30

9:00–9:30

Opening (Room 31)

9:30–10:30

PLENARY SESSION: Samuel Lagier (Room 31)

10:30–11:00

11:05–11:35

Parallel Sessions

S1 Teaching methodologies

Room 24

What is expertise for a language teacher? Balancing between LSP and LAP
S1 Teaching methodologies: LSP

Room 21

Virtual Session

Humor in Teaching EAP Courses: A Bridge between Cultures
S1 Teaching methodologies: Languages for medical purposes

Room 33

Virtual Session

A Multimedia Learning Approach to Improving EFL Nursing Students' Aging-Related Vocabularies
S2 Learners and their environment: Focus on writing

Room 23

Virtual Session

Presentation: Reducing Instructors' Workloads When Preparing Discipline-Specific Writing Courses
S2 Learners and their environment: Intercultural skills

Room 52

Virtual Session

'Very diverse class, but you can understand you are not alone in the difficulties' - Developing interpersonal and intercultural skills in a university language course
S3 Plurilingualism for academic and professional purposes

Room 32

Virtual Session

English L2 proficiency of German students: does it affect grading their written examination answers?
S4 Assessment and alternative forms of assessment

Room 22

Virtual Session

Do assessments reflect what we teach in the classroom?
S5 Staff and quality development: Personal stories

Aula

Acknowledging Intersectionality: Autoethnographic Study of an English Teacher of Chinese Background
S5 Staff and quality development: Teaching skills

Room 36

Virtual Session

Was the deadline yesterday? – Teachers' experiences of the approaching digitalization of higher education language learning
S6 Policy and policy implementation

Room 43

Virtual Session

From Language Practice to Policy and Back Again

11:40–12:10

Parallel Sessions

S1 Teaching methodologies

Room 24

Virtual Session

Integrating international teleconferences into EAP courses: Preparing students for real-life professional situations
S1 Teaching methodologies: LSP

Room 21

Positive Evaluation in the Language of Human Resources: Textbooks vs. Reality
S1 Teaching methodologies: Languages for medical purposes

Room 33

Virtual Session

Kompetenzbasierte Vermittlung der zahnmedizinischen Fachsprache Deutsch für Anfänger
S2 Learners and their environment: Focus on writing

Room 23

Virtual Session

Playing by the Rules: Gamifying English Academic Writing
S4 Assessment and alternative forms of assessment

Room 22

Virtual Session

The case of reflective practice through a process of peer learning and peer assessment
S5 Staff and quality development: Personal stories

Aula

Workshop

Unleash your creative power

(Long session. Includes next period.)
S6 Policy and policy implementation

Room 43

Virtual Session

European University Language Centres' websites: users' perception of academic, cultural and social issues

12:15–12:45

Parallel Sessions

S1 Teaching methodologies

Room 24

Virtual Session

PAZAPA : une plateforme d'apprentissage de FLE en pleine mutation
S1 Teaching methodologies: LSP

Room 21

Virtual Session

The usage of video materials in an online Italian language beginners' course for university students: Experiences from the KiVAKO project
S1 Teaching methodologies: Languages for medical purposes

Room 33

Verba movent, exempla trahunt: Context-Based Learning in Medical Latin
S2 Learners and their environment: Focus on writing

Room 23

Innovative Models for Teaching Writing in Central Europe: At the Margins, or at the (Language) Center?
S2 Learners and their environment: Intercultural skills

Room 52

Critical Thinking and Intercultural Communication through Video-creating
S3 Plurilingualism for academic and professional purposes

Room 32

Ready to Start with EMI? Expectations, Worries, Considerations
S4 Assessment and alternative forms of assessment

Room 22

Virtual Session

Assessment in virtual exchanges – teachers' beliefs and practices
S5 Staff and quality development: Teaching skills

Room 36

Virtual Session

Between "the intellectual proletariat" and "the real thing": the academic and professional profile of modern foreign languages' teachers in UK higher education
S6 Policy and policy implementation

Room 43

Virtual Session

Radical neutrality: What can Language Centres contribute?

12:45–14:00

14:00–15:00

VIRTUAL PLENARY SESSION: Catherine Walter (Room 31)

15:00–15:30

15:30–16:00

Parallel Sessions

S1 Teaching methodologies and ICT

Room 32

Lost but not found: what happens when grammarians fail us? Constraints on participial premodifiers in English.
S1 Teaching methodologies: Languages for medical purposes

Room 33

Virtual Session

Language Centres at a Crossroads
S2 Learners and their environment: Academia and Workplace

Room 23

Roundtable

Opportunities for Cooperation Between Language Centres and Corporate Sector

(Long session. Includes next period.)
S2 Learners and their environment

Room 21

Workshop

Who Am I Teaching? Generation Z and How to Approach Them in Language Teaching

(Long session. Includes next period.)
S3 Plurilingualism for academic and professional purposes

Room 24

Virtual Session

Challenges and emotions in plurilingual courses
S4 Assessment and alternative forms of assessment

Room 22

Virtual Session —
Panel Discussion

University Language Testing at a Crossroads: Adapting for New Generations of Learners and Policy Makers

(Long session. Includes next period.)
S5 Staff and quality development: Personal stories

Aula

Workshop

The power of "yes and"

(Long session. Includes next period.)
S5 Staff and quality development: skills

Room 52

Workshop

"Aspire to Inspire": Get a feel for the new CercleS Training program for LC managers and staff with managerial duties

(Long session. Includes next period.)
S6 Policy and policy implementation

Room 43

Virtual Session

Sprachenpolitik an deutschen Hochschulen: Begleitung durch die Hochschulrektorenkonferenz (HRK)

16:05–16:35

Parallel Sessions

S1 Teaching methodologies and ICT

Room 32

Virtual Session

Creating Solutions in Distance Teams using a Design Sprint
S1 Teaching methodologies: Focus on grammar

Room 33

Angličtina pro lékařské účely – osvojování slovní zásoby
S3 Plurilingualism for academic and professional purposes

Room 24

Pluri◦Deutsch - Promoting Plurilingual German Courses
S6 Policy and policy implementation

Room 43

Virtual Session

University policy into play: Offering language support throughout the BA programme

16:40–17:10

Parallel Sessions

S1 Teaching methodologies and ICT

Room 32

Hacia una didáctica de la gramática con tecnología
S1 Teaching methodologies: Languages for medical purposes

Room 33

Roundtable

Joys, Challenges and Opportunities – Roundtable for Teachers of Foreign Languages and Latin-Greek Terminology at Faculties of Medicine

(Long session. Includes next period.)
S2 Learners and their environment: Academia and Workplace

Room 23

Virtual Session

Step-by-step into the market - from training to practice
S2 Learners and their environment

Room 21

Workshop

Propuestas para el uso de vídeos en la clase de lengua, de A1 a C2

(Long session. Includes next period.)
S4 Assessment and alternative forms of assessment

Room 22

Learning-Oriented Language Assessment (LOLA) in Tertiary Education – to what extent can it be implemented?
S5 Staff and quality development: Personal stories

Aula

Virtual Session

Invisible stories: language teachers' professional journeys
S5 Staff and quality development: Teaching skills

Room 52

Virtual Session

Teachers' Peer Feedback at a Language Centre: Collegial Development of Teaching
S6 Policy and policy implementation

Room 43

Virtual Session

Dangerous Times: The Implementation of Counter-Terrorism Policies in Educational Institutions

17:15–17:45

Parallel Sessions

S2 Learners and their environment: Academia and Workplace

Room 23

Work abroad as an accelerator of social mobility and life-long learning
S3 Plurilingualism for academic and professional purposes

Room 24

Discussion Hub

Pluri-/multi-/flexilingual perspectives in teaching and research at language centres
S4 Assessment and alternative forms of assessment

Room 22

Virtual Session

Pondering learning-oriented assessment – A case study from Japan on German as a foreign language
S5 Staff and quality development

Aula

Teachers at a crossroads: The Eaquals Language for Academic Purposes Framework as a developmental tool for challenging times

17:50–18:20

Parallel Sessions

S2 Learners and their environment: Academia and Workplace

Room 23

Les étudiants tchèques et slovaques en mobilité internationale: différentes interactions en Erasmus
S2 Learners and their environment

Room 21

Discussion Hub

"I have to leave my comfort zone." Emotions and linguistic awareness in business communication classes
S4 Assessment and alternative forms of assessment

Room 22

Virtual Session

From Testing to Learning – How Did the Obligatory Test in Finnish as a Second National Language Become a Learning Task

19:00–

Friday 11 September

8:00–8:30

9:00–10:00

VIRTUAL PLENARY SESSION: Vijay Bhatia (Room 31)

10:00–10:30

10:30–11:00

Parallel Sessions

S1 Teaching methodologies: Languages for business purposes

Room 24

Virtual Session

Acquiring business knowledge through Business English reading materials: pre-experience students' perspective.
S1 Teaching methodologies and ICT: On-line courses

Room 22

Virtual Session

ICT in Blended and Online Language Courses: Applications and Perceptions
S1 Teaching methodologies: Focus on skills

Room 32

Virtual Session

Culturally Adjusted Preparation for Oral Presentations: A Case of Korean Learners in Hungary
S2 Learners and their environment: Focus on writing

Room 33

Student perceptions of writing an essay in relation to deep and surface approaches to learning in higher education language courses
S2 Learners and their environment: Autonomy

Room 52

Autonomy in Language Centres: Myth or Reality?
S2 Learners and their environment

Room 21

YouTube in education
S3 Plurilingualism for academic and professional purposes

Aula

Virtual Session

Literatures and Learners at the Crossroads in India: The Power of Multilingualism for Academic Purposes
S4 Assessment and alternative forms of assessment

Room 23

Virtual Session

Creating a technology-based language assessment system at a University Language Centre: A challenge for students, teachers and test developers
S5 Staff and quality development: Teaching skills

Room 44

Virtual Session

Professional Development Programmes, Technology-Enhanced Learning and the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Leading XJTLU's Language Center through the Coronavirus Crisis
S6 Policy and policy implementation

Room 36

Virtual Session

Cadre mondial commun de référence pour la langue arabe et sa culture: enseignement, apprentissage et évaluation

11:05–11:35

Parallel Sessions

S1 Teaching methodologies: Languages for business purposes

Room 24

La metáfora económica en el lenguaje especializado - ¿una ayuda en transferencia del conocimiento especializado o una embrevecida marea léxica?
S1 Teaching methodologies and ICT: On-line courses

Room 22

Virtual Session

Teaching academic writing in English in an online and collaborative environment
S1 Teaching methodologies: Focus on skills

Room 32

Conference skills in practice
S2 Learners and their environment: Focus on writing

Room 33

Virtual Session

Reading to Write, Writing to Read
S2 Learners and their environment: Strategies

Room 43

Virtual Session —
Workshop

Deep Learning: A Sociocognitive Approach to Transformative Language and Culture Pedagogy

(Long session. Includes next period.)
S2 Learners and their environment: Autonomy

Room 52

Virtual Session

Motivations, internationalization, and autonomous learning in an EFL context: From credit courses to self-access centers
S2 Learners and their environment

Room 21

Virtual Session

How to contextualise dialogues between home and international students to improve interlanguage and academic skills.
S1 Teaching methodologies

Aula

Workshop

Stimulate your metaphorical thinking

(Long session. Includes next period.)
S4 Assessment and alternative forms of assessment

Room 23

Pour la reconnaissance et le développement des compétences interdisciplinaires des étudiants en droit bi/plurilingues : des grilles du CECRL à la définition de nouvelles catégories d’évaluation / Anerkennung und Förderung interdisziplinärer Kompetenzen be
S5 Staff and quality development: Teaching skills

Room 44

Virtual Session —
Workshop

Quality control or teacher development? Reflecting on teaching observations

(Long session. Includes next period.)
S6 Policy and policy implementation

Room 36

Virtual Session —
Workshop

Enriching an intensive Russian course through celebrating the culture

(Long session. Includes next period.)

11:40–12:10

Parallel Sessions

S1 Teaching methodologies: Languages for business purposes

Room 24

Developing English Communication and Soft Skills through Case Studies in Business Law
S1 Teaching methodologies: Focus on skills

Room 32

Designing language courses to develop learner autonomy
S2 Learners and their environment: Focus on writing

Room 33

Virtual Session

"We learn from each other": peer review writing practices in English for Academic Purposes
S2 Learners and their environment

Room 21

Virtual Session —
Discussion Hub

Android as a teacher: resources needed for online teaching
S2 Learners and their environment: Autonomy

Room 52

Virtual Session

AllWell? and EQ-i 2.0® with ALLP - Helping Students Take Responsibility for Their Learning and Develop Selfreflection and Metacognition?
S4 Assessment and alternative forms of assessment

Room 23

Validace Certifikované zkoušky z češtiny pro cizince se zřetelem na lokální kontext

12:15–12:45

Parallel Sessions

S1 Teaching methodologies: Languages for business purposes

Room 24

Étudiants-stagiaires tchèques en stage professionnel en France: analyse des besoins de développement de la compétence interculturelle
S1 Teaching methodologies and ICT: On-line courses

Room 22

Virtual Session —
Discussion Hub

Language learning spaces across cultures
S1 Teaching methodologies: Focus on skills

Room 32

Virtual Session

Shifting towards the action-oriented approach in higher education: Language learners' perceptions
S2 Learners and their environment: Focus on writing

Room 33

Empowered and ethical: Turnitin as tool towards creating autonomous students
S2 Learners and their environment: Strategies

Room 43

Virtual Session

Employing Reflective Thinking (RT) as a PBL model for learning Arabic
S2 Learners and their environment: Autonomy

Room 52

Students' self-reflection journals: what do they tell us about their learning as a process?
S2 Learners and their environment

Room 21

Virtual Session

Exploring Intonation and Discovering Student Ownership through Podcast Creation in the Language Classroom
S4 Assessment and alternative forms of assessment

Room 23

Virtual Session

Speaking Test Validation and Mutual Recognition within the NULTE Framework
S5 Staff and quality development: Teaching skills

Room 44

Virtual Session

Managing Change: Implementing a Task-Based Approach to Teaching and Assessment at Department Level
S6 Policy and policy implementation

Room 36

Virtual Session

Exploring new directions in language teaching and learning: Tailored Norwegian language courses for academic staff

12:45–14:00

14:00–15:00

PLENARY SESSION: Joan-Tomàs Pujolà (Room 31)

15:00–15:30

15:00–16:00

Poster Sessions

15:00–16:00

Corona Discussion Hub (Atrium)

16:05–16:35

Parallel Sessions

S1 Teaching methodologies: LSP

Room 52

Workshop

Task-based learning, not task-supported teaching

(Long session. Includes next period.)
S3 Plurilingualism for academic and professional purposes

Aula

Workshop

The metaphor factory

(Long session. Includes next period.)
S2 Learners and their environment: Feedback and Autonomy

Room 24

Evaluating the effect of feedback on EFL writing quality and lexical sophistication: The perspective of psycholinguistic properties of words
S2 Learners and their environment: Strategies

Room 31

Virtual Session

Flipped Learning: New Roles, Relationships and Media in Communication Teaching
S2 Learners and their environment: Body and mind

Room 43

Virtual Session

La creación literaria como estrategia de motivación y vehículo de la dimensión afectiva del aprendiente en la enseñanza de lenguas
S2 Learners and their environment: Body and mind

Room 32

Workshop

Upward-Facing Dog: motivation and flow in the Legal English classroom

(Long session. Includes next period.)
S3 Plurilingualism for academic and professional purposes

Room 22

Virtual Session

Translingual transcultural competence: Student agency, teacher guidance, and program support
S5 Staff and quality development

Room 23

Virtual Session

Alternative Assessment in Teaching Foreign Languages in Universities: cases of using e-portfolio and video essay among learners of Chinese and Russian
S5 Staff and quality development

Room 21

Roundtable

Fifty Shades of Grey: From TEAP to MEAP (My EAP)

(Long session. Includes next period.)
S6 Policy and policy implementation

Room 44

Virtual Session —
Panel Discussion

Sustainability in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language (A UK Perspective)

(Long session. Includes next period.)

16:40–17:10

Parallel Sessions

S2 Learners and their environment: Feedback and Autonomy

Room 24

Virtual Session

Delivery of written assessment e-feedback to year abroad Mandarin learners
S2 Learners and their environment: Strategies

Room 31

Context of learning as a potential factor in successful language maintenance – A case study
S2 Learners and their environment: Body and mind

Room 43

Virtual Session

La danse classique pour favoriser l'apprentissage linguistique et le développement personnel
S4 Assessment and alternative forms of assessment

Room 23

Virtual Session

Portfolio Method at Budapest Business School: Introducing a Tailoring Process

17:15–17:45

Parallel Sessions

S1 Teaching methodologies: LSP

Room 52

English for Mathematicians: The Textbook Challenge
S1 Teaching methodologies

Aula

Virtual Session

Quel usage faire du CECRL dans les classes de langues étrangères multi-niveaux
S1 Teaching methodologies: Focus on listening

Room 36

Virtual Session

Investigating approaches to listening for motivation and language development
S2 Learners and their environment: Strategies

Room 24

Speech is silver, silence is gold: What really happens during individual language counselling sessions
S2 Learners and their environment: Strategies

Room 31

Virtual Session

How is it possible to exercise and develop soft skills through group dynamics in the language class?
S3 Plurilingualism for academic and professional purposes

Room 22

The integration of linguistic diversity awareness into the syllabus: The case of Arabic
S4 Assessment and alternative forms of assessment

Room 23

Quality Assurance in Portfolio Assessment
S5 Staff and quality development

Room 21

Virtual Session

Evaluation for Development: A Model for Empowering Actors and Stakeholders in the Development of Language Centre Curriculum

17:50–18:20

Parallel Sessions

17:50–18:55

Plenary Panel: Corona Experience (Room 31)

19:30–

Conference Dinner

Saturday 12 September

8:00–8:30

9:00–10:00

VIRTUAL PLENARY SESSION: Mark Critchley, Jocelyn Wyburd (Room 31)

10:00–10:30

10:30–11:00

Parallel Sessions

S1 Teaching methodologies

Room 21

Beyond Science: ESP Vocabulary at an Inter-disciplinary Crossroads
S1 Teaching methodologies

Room 22

Virtual Session

Challenging opportunities for secondary school teachers: A new generation of learners in a CLIL class
S2 Learners and their environment: Autonomy

Room 24

Virtual Session

L'apprentissage en autonomie intégré à l'enseignement traditionnel : comment exploiter un jeu de rôle au service de l'apprentissage individuel et collectif dans une classe de langue
S2 Learners and their environment: Mind and emotions

Aula

Workshop

Mindsets - Teacher Meets Student Meets Attitude

(Long session. Includes next period.)
S3 Plurilingualism for academic and professional purposes

Room 32

Roundtable

What role can language centres play in the training of academic staff to teach their subject in a second or foreign language?

(Long session. Includes next period.)
S4 Assessment and alternative forms of assessment

Room 23

Integrated language skills assessment: how the TEEP inspired the language department of the faculty of science at the University of South Bohemia.

11:05–11:35

Parallel Sessions

S1 Teaching methodologies

Room 21

Virtual Session

Best practises of five years of online language education. The learner, the course and the language centre
S1 Teaching methodologies

Room 22

Virtual Session

Designing and Launching a Year-Long Executive Education Programme at LSE Confucius Institute for Business London – Chinese Language and Culture for Business (CLCB)
S2 Learners and their environment: Autonomy

Room 24

Exercising Autonomy, or How My Students Make Decisions about Our Courses
S4 Assessment and alternative forms of assessment

Room 23

Virtual Session

Charting a Future for Out-of-Class Assessments: Harnessing the opportunities of autonomy and maximising positive learning behaviours

11:40–12:10

Parallel Sessions

S1 Teaching methodologies

Room 21

Virtual Session

Wortschatzerwerb im Unterricht: Wie kann man effektiv mit dem neuen Wortschatz arbeiten?
S1 Teaching methodologies

Room 22

English for university admin staff: it's all in the mix
S2 Learners and their environment: Autonomy

Room 24

Fostering autonomy in learners with special needs: a specialized e-learning course
S2 Learners and their environment: Cultures in contact

Aula

Virtual Session

The Benefits of class-based 'Self-expressive Writing' Activity in Beginners Language Courses: enhancing learning experience and outcomes
S3 Plurilingualism for academic and professional purposes

Room 32

Comparative Study on Willingness to Communicate over Four Different Countries: Japan, Slovak Republic, Czech Republic, and Spain.
S4 Assessment and alternative forms of assessment

Room 23

Virtual Session

Online Assessment of English and Other Languages

12:20–13:20

Plenary (Cercles Panel) Room 31

13:20–13:45

Closing (Room 31)

14:00–

Post-conference Trip: VIRTUAL VISIT

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