Programme | Language Centers at a Crossroads

General Programme

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	9:00-12:30	14:00-18:30	19:00
9th September	CercleS EC/CC meetings, pre-conference workshops	CercleS EC/CC meetings, CercleS Focus Group online meeting, pre-conference workshops	pre-conference drink
10th September	opening + keynote, parallel sessions	keynote, parallel sessions	welcome drink
11th September	keynote, parallel sessions	keynote, parallel sessions	conference dinner (19:30)
12th September	keynote, parallel sessions	14:00- virtual post-conference trip to the Lednice UNESCO area

Detailed Programme

For a downloadable version, click here (updated 08/09/2020).

Poster Sessions

If you are a virtual participant, you can download posters from our Poster Sessions presenters HERE.

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

Coffee Break

16:00–17:30

Pre-conference Workshops II

19:00–

Pre-conference Drink

Thursday 10 September

8:00–8:30

Sport

9:00–9:30

Opening (Room 31)

9:30–10:30

PLENARY SESSION: Samuel Lagier (Room 31)

10:30–11:00

Coffee Break

11:05–11:35

Parallel Sessions

S1 Teaching methodologies

Room 24

What is expertise for a language teacher? Balancing between LSP and LAP

Agnieszka Suchomelová-Połomska
S1 Teaching methodologies: LSP

Room 21

Virtual Session

Humor in Teaching EAP Courses: A Bridge between Cultures

Claudia Zbenovich¹ & Maria Yelenevskaya²
S1 Teaching methodologies: Languages for medical purposes

Room 33

Virtual Session

A Multimedia Learning Approach to Improving EFL Nursing Students' Aging-Related Vocabularies

Tuyuan Cheng
S2 Learners and their environment: Focus on writing

Room 23

Virtual Session

Presentation: Reducing Instructors' Workloads When Preparing Discipline-Specific Writing Courses

Simon Milligan
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

Luisa Bavieri & Ana Beaven
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?

Lidy Zijlmans, Roeland van Hout & Marc van Oostendorp
S4 Assessment and alternative forms of assessment

Room 22

Virtual Session

Do assessments reflect what we teach in the classroom?

Mikiko Kurose
S5 Staff and quality development: Personal stories

Aula

Acknowledging Intersectionality: Autoethnographic Study of an English Teacher of Chinese Background

Jason Chan
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

Janne Niinivaara
S6 Policy and policy implementation

Room 43

Virtual Session

From Language Practice to Policy and Back Again

Caroline Clark

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

Anila R. Scott-Monkhouse¹, Michal Tal² & Maria Yelenevskaya²
S1 Teaching methodologies: LSP

Room 21

Positive Evaluation in the Language of Human Resources: Textbooks vs. Reality

Pavel Reich
S1 Teaching methodologies: Languages for medical purposes

Room 33

Virtual Session

Kompetenzbasierte Vermittlung der zahnmedizinischen Fachsprache Deutsch für Anfänger

Katalin Fogarasi¹ & Ágnes Bán²
S2 Learners and their environment: Focus on writing

Room 23

Virtual Session

Playing by the Rules: Gamifying English Academic Writing

Réka Mihálka
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

Vaida Misevičiūtė
S5 Staff and quality development: Personal stories

Aula

Workshop

Unleash your creative power

Samuel Lagier

(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

Carmen Argondizzo¹, Anna Maria De Bartolo¹, Alessandra Fazio², Jean M. Jimenez¹ & Ida Ruffolo¹

12:15–12:45

Parallel Sessions

S1 Teaching methodologies

Room 24

Virtual Session

PAZAPA : une plateforme d'apprentissage de FLE en pleine mutation

Carmen Eggermont, Sara Rymenams, Nathalie Nouwen & Serge Verlinde
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

Laura Senni¹ & Päivi Korhonen²
S1 Teaching methodologies: Languages for medical purposes

Room 33

Verba movent, exempla trahunt: Context-Based Learning in Medical Latin

Natália Gachallová & Marie Okáčová
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?

Joe Lennon
S2 Learners and their environment: Intercultural skills

Room 52

Critical Thinking and Intercultural Communication through Video-creating

Stellan Sundh¹ & Markéta Denksteinová²
S3 Plurilingualism for academic and professional purposes

Room 32

Ready to Start with EMI? Expectations, Worries, Considerations

Pavel Brebera
S4 Assessment and alternative forms of assessment

Room 22

Virtual Session

Assessment in virtual exchanges – teachers' beliefs and practices

Anna Czura
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

Marion Coderch
S6 Policy and policy implementation

Room 43

Virtual Session

Radical neutrality: What can Language Centres contribute?

Melanie Küng & Stephan Meyer

12:45–14:00

Lunch

14:00–15:00

VIRTUAL PLENARY SESSION: Catherine Walter (Room 31)

15:00–15:30

Coffee Break

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.

Peter Butler
S1 Teaching methodologies: Languages for medical purposes

Room 33

Virtual Session

Language Centres at a Crossroads

Androulla Athanasiou
S2 Learners and their environment: Academia and Workplace

Room 23

Roundtable

Opportunities for Cooperation Between Language Centres and Corporate Sector

Eva Rudolfová

(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

Lucie Procházková

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

Room 24

Virtual Session

Challenges and emotions in plurilingual courses

Joachim Schlabach & Eeva Boström
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

Johann Fischer (moderator), Laurent Rouveyrol, Helena Šajgalíková, Jolanta Wielgus, Nicole Wolder, Julia Zabala Delgado

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

Aula

Workshop

The power of "yes and"

Samuel Lagier

(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

Sabina Schaffner

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

Room 43

Virtual Session

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

Iris Danowski

16:05–16:35

Parallel Sessions

S1 Teaching methodologies and ICT

Room 32

Virtual Session

Creating Solutions in Distance Teams using a Design Sprint

Pilar Gonzáles-Vera¹, Katarzyna Sobańska², Eva Braidwood³, Nina Jackson³ & Susan McAnsh³
S1 Teaching methodologies: Focus on grammar

Room 33

Angličtina pro lékařské účely – osvojování slovní zásoby

Dagmar Vrběcká & Klára Čebišová
S3 Plurilingualism for academic and professional purposes

Room 24

Pluri◦Deutsch - Promoting Plurilingual German Courses

Almut Meyer¹ & Claudia Rehwagen²
S6 Policy and policy implementation

Room 43

Virtual Session

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

Ruben Comadina Granson & Estelle Meima

16:40–17:10

Parallel Sessions

S1 Teaching methodologies and ICT

Room 32

Hacia una didáctica de la gramática con tecnología

Javier González Lozano¹ & Juan García-Romeu²
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

Veronika Dvořáčková, Ivana Rešková & Libor Švanda

(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

Manuel Silva, Pedro Duarte & Hugo Cosme
S2 Learners and their environment

Room 21

Workshop

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

Sergi Martín

(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?

Rebecca Turner
S5 Staff and quality development: Personal stories

Aula

Virtual Session

Invisible stories: language teachers' professional journeys

Donata Puntil
S5 Staff and quality development: Teaching skills

Room 52

Virtual Session

Teachers' Peer Feedback at a Language Centre: Collegial Development of Teaching

Heini Lehtonen, Riikka Järvelä & Janne Niinivaara
S6 Policy and policy implementation

Room 43

Virtual Session

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

Sophia Butt

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

Pavlína Příbramská & Dagmar Sieglová
S3 Plurilingualism for academic and professional purposes

Room 24

Discussion Hub

Pluri-/multi-/flexilingual perspectives in teaching and research at language centres

Katherine Guertler¹, Kateřina Sedláčková², Beatriz Calvo Martín³, Sabina Gola³ & Romain Racine⁴
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

Maria Gabriela Schmidt
S5 Staff and quality development

Aula

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

Ludka Kotarska

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

Marie Červenková¹ & Hana Delalande²
S2 Learners and their environment

Room 21

Discussion Hub

"I have to leave my comfort zone." Emotions and linguistic awareness in business communication classes

Eeva Boström
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

Anna-Maria Peltomäki & Hanna Vänskä

19:00–

Welcome Drink

Friday 11 September

8:00–8:30

Sport

9:00–10:00

VIRTUAL PLENARY SESSION: Vijay Bhatia (Room 31)

10:00–10:30

Coffee Break

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.

Jolanta Łącka-Badura
S1 Teaching methodologies and ICT: On-line courses

Room 22

Virtual Session

ICT in Blended and Online Language Courses: Applications and Perceptions

Natalie Close & Darrell Wilkinson
S1 Teaching methodologies: Focus on skills

Room 32

Virtual Session

Culturally Adjusted Preparation for Oral Presentations: A Case of Korean Learners in Hungary

Mátyás Bánhegyi¹ & Judit Nagy²
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

Ivana Mičínová
S2 Learners and their environment: Autonomy

Room 52

Autonomy in Language Centres: Myth or Reality?

Anne Chateau & Maria Giovanna Tassinari
S2 Learners and their environment

Room 21

YouTube in education

Katarzyna Opiela
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

Divya Saksena¹ & Jaiwanti Dimri²
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

Carmen Argondizzo, Jean M. Jimenez & Vanessa Marcella
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

Chris Harris & Stuart Perrin
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

Tarek Bouattour

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?

Veronika De Azevedo Camacho
S1 Teaching methodologies and ICT: On-line courses

Room 22

Virtual Session

Teaching academic writing in English in an online and collaborative environment

Hasmik Minasyan & Milja Merta
S1 Teaching methodologies: Focus on skills

Room 32

Conference skills in practice

Eva Čoupková & Daniela Dlabolová
S2 Learners and their environment: Focus on writing

Room 33

Virtual Session

Reading to Write, Writing to Read

Cristina Tat
S2 Learners and their environment: Strategies

Room 43

Virtual Session —
Workshop

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

Joseph Shaules

(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

Chen-Yu Chester Hsieh
S2 Learners and their environment

Room 21

Virtual Session

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

Sophie Otsuru (née Schieber)
S1 Teaching methodologies

Aula

Workshop

Stimulate your metaphorical thinking

Samuel Lagier

(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

Romain Racine, Alessandra Keller-Gerber & Tanja Tovar
S5 Staff and quality development: Teaching skills

Room 44

Virtual Session —
Workshop

Quality control or teacher development? Reflecting on teaching observations

Hasan Shikoh

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

Room 36

Virtual Session —
Workshop

Enriching an intensive Russian course through celebrating the culture

Svetlana Muhejeva

(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

Hana Kallus, Jarmila Pokorná, Eva Tomášková & Eva Večerková
S1 Teaching methodologies: Focus on skills

Room 32

Designing language courses to develop learner autonomy

Lenka Stejskalová & Dagmar Sieglová
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

Stergiani Kostopoulou¹ & Fergus O'Dwyer²
S2 Learners and their environment

Room 21

Virtual Session —
Discussion Hub

Android as a teacher: resources needed for online teaching

Merja Karppinen & Olesia Kullberg
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?

Hanna Liisa Hakala
S4 Assessment and alternative forms of assessment

Room 23

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

Martina Hulešová, Kateřina Vodičková & Pavel Pečený

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

Hana Delalande
S1 Teaching methodologies and ICT: On-line courses

Room 22

Virtual Session —
Discussion Hub

Language learning spaces across cultures

Elizabeth Lavolette
S1 Teaching methodologies: Focus on skills

Room 32

Virtual Session

Shifting towards the action-oriented approach in higher education: Language learners' perceptions

Evelina Jaleniauskienė
S2 Learners and their environment: Focus on writing

Room 33

Empowered and ethical: Turnitin as tool towards creating autonomous students

Zaan Bester
S2 Learners and their environment: Strategies

Room 43

Virtual Session

Employing Reflective Thinking (RT) as a PBL model for learning Arabic

Orieb Masadeh-Tate
S2 Learners and their environment: Autonomy

Room 52

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

Petra Trávníková
S2 Learners and their environment

Room 21

Virtual Session

Exploring Intonation and Discovering Student Ownership through Podcast Creation in the Language Classroom

Amy Elizabeth Han
S4 Assessment and alternative forms of assessment

Room 23

Virtual Session

Speaking Test Validation and Mutual Recognition within the NULTE Framework

Barbara Sawicka¹ & Julia Zabala-Delgado²
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

Johann Fischer¹ & Roma Kriaučiūnienė²
S6 Policy and policy implementation

Room 36

Virtual Session

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

Ewa Wapinska

12:45–14:00

Lunch

14:00–15:00

PLENARY SESSION: Joan-Tomàs Pujolà (Room 31)

15:00–15:30

Coffee Break

15:00–16:00

Poster Sessions

Atrium

Status of the Czech language and its perspectives

Kateřina Černá
Atrium

Virtual Session

Teaching International and Hungarian Gen Z Medical Students: Which Path Should Teachers Take at the Crossroads?

Anna Dávidovics & Timea Németh
Atrium

Literarische Texte als Möglichkeit für Lernende, deren interkulturelle kommunikative Kompetenz zu fördern

Petra Chládková
Atrium

English Learner Preconceptions and Beliefs about Learning Strategies and Curriculum: a Case of Technical University Students in an ESP Course

Lenka Fišerová
Atrium

Virtual Session

Translation and terminology management at Language Services, University of Helsinki Language Centre

Irma Hallberg-Rautalin
Atrium

Transition from a Functional to a Professional Level of Language Proficiency in the Czech Military

Stanislava Jonáková, Nataša Mocková & Francesco Daniel Muto
Atrium

Virtual Session

Integrated Teaching in Languages and Law: The Pilot that Inspired a Model for Boundary-Crossing Curriculum Evaluation. Featuring the Nutshell Poster.

Susanna Kohonen, Sinikka Kettunen & Jonna Kosonen
Atrium

What Is Mediation in Language Learning and Teaching and How Does It Manifest?

Michaela Konárková & Šárka Kadlecová
Atrium

Meetings and Social Skills course held in cooperation between USB and Tampere University: Project-based learning in practice

Kateřina Kortusová
Atrium

Request strategies and modifications by Czech learners of English as a foreign language

Marie Lahodová Vališová
Atrium

The Concept of Lifelong Education in Language Courses at the University of the Third Age at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University (FF UK)

Terezie Límanová & Marie Hanzlíková
Atrium

Language integration of young refugees in the Czech Republic 2018-2020

Petr Pytlík & Radim Ošmera
Atrium

Topografia delle città di Olomouc e Kroměříž come materiale autentico nell'insegnamento dell'italiano nei corsi universitari per storici dell’arte e altri

Eva Skříčková
Atrium

Virtual Session

Медицинский русский для начинающих

Éva Katalin Varga

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

Mat Plews

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

Aula

Workshop

The metaphor factory

Samuel Lagier

(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

Blanka Pojslová
S2 Learners and their environment: Strategies

Room 31

Virtual Session

Flipped Learning: New Roles, Relationships and Media in Communication Teaching

Katariina Hollanti, Maiju Ranta, Janne Niinivaara & Tessa Horila
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

Beatriz Calvo Martín
S2 Learners and their environment: Body and mind

Room 32

Workshop

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

Barbora Chovancová, Štěpánka Bilová & Alena Hradilová

(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

Claudia Kunschak
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

Zhiyan Guo & Alexandra Kulikova
S5 Staff and quality development

Room 21

Roundtable

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

Shrouk Abdelgafar¹, Constanza Arriaga², Tony Corballis³, Janet Gibbons⁴, Sophie Otsuru Schieber⁵ & Libor Stepanek⁶

(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)

Catherine Xiang¹, Lijing Shi¹, Duo Luan² & Wei Shao³

(Long session. Includes next period.)