Time slots

Day	Slot / Type / Track
Wednesday 9 September 13:00 – 14:00	Welcome CercleS Coordinating Committee
Wednesday 9 September 14:00 – 17:00	CercleS Coordinating Committee Meeting
Wednesday 9 September 17:30 – 18:30	CercleS General Meeting
Wednesday 9 September 14:00 – 15:30	Pre-conference Workshops I
Wednesday 9 September 14:00 – 16:00	CercleS Focus Group
Wednesday 9 September 15:30 – 16:00	Coffee Break
Wednesday 9 September 16:00 – 17:30	Pre-conference Workshops II
Wednesday 9 September 19:00 –	Pre-conference Drink
Thursday 10 September 8:00 – 8:30	Sport
Thursday 10 September 9:00 – 9:30	Opening (Room 31)
Thursday 10 September 9:30 – 10:30	Exploring the unknown PLENARY SESSION: Samuel Lagier (Room 31)
Thursday 10 September 10:30 – 11:00	Coffee Break
Thursday 10 September 11:05 – 11:35	Parallel Sessions What is expertise for a language teacher? Balancing between LSP and LAP Agnieszka Suchomelová-Połomska Virtual Session Humor in Teaching EAP Courses: A Bridge between Cultures Claudia Zbenovich¹ & Maria Yelenevskaya² Virtual Session A Multimedia Learning Approach to Improving EFL Nursing Students' Aging-Related Vocabularies Tuyuan Cheng Virtual Session Presentation: Reducing Instructors' Workloads When Preparing Discipline-Specific Writing Courses Simon Milligan 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 Virtual Session English L2 proficiency of German students: does it affect grading their written examination answers? Lidy Zijlmans, Roeland van Hout & Marc van Oostendorp Virtual Session Do assessments reflect what we teach in the classroom? Mikiko Kurose Acknowledging Intersectionality: Autoethnographic Study of an English Teacher of Chinese Background Jason Chan Virtual Session Was the deadline yesterday? – Teachers' experiences of the approaching digitalization of higher education language learning Janne Niinivaara Virtual Session From Language Practice to Policy and Back Again Caroline Clark
Thursday 10 September 11:40 – 12:10	Parallel Sessions Virtual Session Integrating international teleconferences into EAP courses: Preparing students for real-life professional situations Anila R. Scott-Monkhouse¹, Michal Tal² & Maria Yelenevskaya² Positive Evaluation in the Language of Human Resources: Textbooks vs. Reality Pavel Reich Virtual Session Kompetenzbasierte Vermittlung der zahnmedizinischen Fachsprache Deutsch für Anfänger Katalin Fogarasi¹ & Ágnes Bán² Virtual Session Playing by the Rules: Gamifying English Academic Writing Réka Mihálka Virtual Session The case of reflective practice through a process of peer learning and peer assessment Vaida Misevičiūtė Workshop Unleash your creative power Samuel Lagier 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
Thursday 10 September 12:15 – 12:45	Parallel Sessions Virtual Session PAZAPA : une plateforme d'apprentissage de FLE en pleine mutation Carmen Eggermont, Sara Rymenams, Nathalie Nouwen & Serge Verlinde 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 Verba movent, exempla trahunt: Context-Based Learning in Medical Latin Natália Gachallová & Marie Okáčová Innovative Models for Teaching Writing in Central Europe: At the Margins, or at the (Language) Center? Joe Lennon Critical Thinking and Intercultural Communication through Video-creating Stellan Sundh¹ & Markéta Denksteinová² Ready to Start with EMI? Expectations, Worries, Considerations Pavel Brebera Virtual Session Assessment in virtual exchanges – teachers' beliefs and practices Anna Czura 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 Virtual Session Radical neutrality: What can Language Centres contribute? Melanie Küng & Stephan Meyer
Thursday 10 September 12:45 – 14:00	Lunch
Thursday 10 September 14:00 – 15:00	Questioning practice in the teaching of reading VIRTUAL PLENARY SESSION: Catherine Walter (Room 31)
Thursday 10 September 15:00 – 15:30	Coffee Break
Thursday 10 September 15:30 – 16:00	Parallel Sessions Lost but not found: what happens when grammarians fail us? Constraints on participial premodifiers in English. Peter Butler Virtual Session Language Centres at a Crossroads Androulla Athanasiou Roundtable Opportunities for Cooperation Between Language Centres and Corporate Sector Eva Rudolfová Workshop Who Am I Teaching? Generation Z and How to Approach Them in Language Teaching Lucie Procházková Virtual Session Challenges and emotions in plurilingual courses Joachim Schlabach & Eeva Boström 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 Workshop The power of "yes and" Samuel Lagier Workshop "Aspire to Inspire": Get a feel for the new CercleS Training program for LC managers and staff with managerial duties Sabina Schaffner Virtual Session Sprachenpolitik an deutschen Hochschulen: Begleitung durch die Hochschulrektorenkonferenz (HRK) Iris Danowski
Thursday 10 September 16:05 – 16:35	Parallel Sessions Virtual Session Creating Solutions in Distance Teams using a Design Sprint Pilar Gonzáles-Vera¹, Katarzyna Sobańska², Eva Braidwood³, Nina Jackson³ & Susan McAnsh³ Angličtina pro lékařské účely – osvojování slovní zásoby Dagmar Vrběcká & Klára Čebišová Pluri◦Deutsch - Promoting Plurilingual German Courses Almut Meyer¹ & Claudia Rehwagen² Virtual Session University policy into play: Offering language support throughout the BA programme Ruben Comadina Granson & Estelle Meima
Thursday 10 September 16:40 – 17:10	Parallel Sessions Hacia una didáctica de la gramática con tecnología Javier González Lozano¹ & Juan García-Romeu² 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 Virtual Session Step-by-step into the market - from training to practice Manuel Silva, Pedro Duarte & Hugo Cosme Workshop Propuestas para el uso de vídeos en la clase de lengua, de A1 a C2 Sergi Martín Learning-Oriented Language Assessment (LOLA) in Tertiary Education – to what extent can it be implemented? Rebecca Turner Virtual Session Invisible stories: language teachers' professional journeys Donata Puntil Virtual Session Teachers' Peer Feedback at a Language Centre: Collegial Development of Teaching Heini Lehtonen, Riikka Järvelä & Janne Niinivaara Virtual Session Dangerous Times: The Implementation of Counter-Terrorism Policies in Educational Institutions Sophia Butt
Thursday 10 September 17:15 – 17:45	Parallel Sessions Work abroad as an accelerator of social mobility and life-long learning Pavlína Příbramská & Dagmar Sieglová Discussion Hub Pluri-/multi-/flexilingual perspectives in teaching and research at language centres Katherine Guertler¹, Kateřina Sedláčková², Beatriz Calvo Martín³, Sabina Gola³ & Romain Racine⁴ Virtual Session Pondering learning-oriented assessment – A case study from Japan on German as a foreign language Maria Gabriela Schmidt Teachers at a crossroads: The Eaquals Language for Academic Purposes Framework as a developmental tool for challenging times Ludka Kotarska
Thursday 10 September 17:50 – 18:20	Parallel Sessions Les étudiants tchèques et slovaques en mobilité internationale: différentes interactions en Erasmus Marie Červenková¹ & Hana Delalande² Discussion Hub "I have to leave my comfort zone." Emotions and linguistic awareness in business communication classes Eeva Boström 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
Friday 11 September 8:00 – 8:30	Sport
Friday 11 September 9:00 – 10:00	Critical Genre Perspective on Electronically Mediated English for Professional Communication VIRTUAL PLENARY SESSION: Vijay Bhatia (Room 31)
Friday 11 September 10:00 – 10:30	Coffee Break
Friday 11 September 10:30 – 11:00	Parallel Sessions Virtual Session Acquiring business knowledge through Business English reading materials: pre-experience students' perspective. Jolanta Łącka-Badura Virtual Session ICT in Blended and Online Language Courses: Applications and Perceptions Natalie Close & Darrell Wilkinson Virtual Session Culturally Adjusted Preparation for Oral Presentations: A Case of Korean Learners in Hungary Mátyás Bánhegyi¹ & Judit Nagy² Student perceptions of writing an essay in relation to deep and surface approaches to learning in higher education language courses Ivana Mičínová Autonomy in Language Centres: Myth or Reality? Anne Chateau & Maria Giovanna Tassinari YouTube in education Katarzyna Opiela Virtual Session Literatures and Learners at the Crossroads in India: The Power of Multilingualism for Academic Purposes Divya Saksena¹ & Jaiwanti Dimri² 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 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 Virtual Session Cadre mondial commun de référence pour la langue arabe et sa culture: enseignement, apprentissage et évaluation Tarek Bouattour
Friday 11 September 11:05 – 11:35	Parallel Sessions La metáfora económica en el lenguaje especializado - ¿una ayuda en transferencia del conocimiento especializado o una embrevecida marea léxica? Veronika De Azevedo Camacho Virtual Session Teaching academic writing in English in an online and collaborative environment Hasmik Minasyan & Milja Merta Conference skills in practice Eva Čoupková & Daniela Dlabolová Virtual Session Reading to Write, Writing to Read Cristina Tat Workshop Deep Learning: A Sociocognitive Approach to Transformative Language and Culture Pedagogy Joseph Shaules Virtual Session Motivations, internationalization, and autonomous learning in an EFL context: From credit courses to self-access centers Chen-Yu Chester Hsieh Virtual Session How to contextualise dialogues between home and international students to improve interlanguage and academic skills. Sophie Otsuru (née Schieber) Workshop Stimulate your metaphorical thinking Samuel Lagier 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 Workshop Quality control or teacher development? Reflecting on teaching observations Hasan Shikoh Workshop Enriching an intensive Russian course through celebrating the culture Svetlana Muhejeva
Friday 11 September 11:40 – 12:10	Parallel Sessions Developing English Communication and Soft Skills through Case Studies in Business Law Hana Kallus, Jarmila Pokorná, Eva Tomášková & Eva Večerková Designing language courses to develop learner autonomy Lenka Stejskalová & Dagmar Sieglová Virtual Session "We learn from each other": peer review writing practices in English for Academic Purposes Stergiani Kostopoulou¹ & Fergus O'Dwyer² Discussion Hub Android as a teacher: resources needed for online teaching Merja Karppinen & Olesia Kullberg 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 Validace Certifikované zkoušky z češtiny pro cizince se zřetelem na lokální kontext Martina Hulešová, Kateřina Vodičková & Pavel Pečený
Friday 11 September 12:15 – 12:45	Parallel Sessions Étudiants-stagiaires tchèques en stage professionnel en France: analyse des besoins de développement de la compétence interculturelle Hana Delalande Discussion Hub Language learning spaces across cultures Elizabeth Lavolette Virtual Session Shifting towards the action-oriented approach in higher education: Language learners' perceptions Evelina Jaleniauskienė Empowered and ethical: Turnitin as tool towards creating autonomous students Zaan Bester Virtual Session Employing Reflective Thinking (RT) as a PBL model for learning Arabic Orieb Masadeh-Tate Students' self-reflection journals: what do they tell us about their learning as a process? Petra Trávníková Virtual Session Exploring Intonation and Discovering Student Ownership through Podcast Creation in the Language Classroom Amy Elizabeth Han Virtual Session Speaking Test Validation and Mutual Recognition within the NULTE Framework Barbara Sawicka¹ & Julia Zabala-Delgado² Virtual Session Managing Change: Implementing a Task-Based Approach to Teaching and Assessment at Department Level Johann Fischer¹ & Roma Kriaučiūnienė² Virtual Session Exploring new directions in language teaching and learning: Tailored Norwegian language courses for academic staff Ewa Wapinska
Friday 11 September 12:45 – 14:00	Lunch
Friday 11 September 14:00 – 15:00	From adaptation to integration of ICTs in the “new normality” of language teaching PLENARY SESSION: Joan-Tomàs Pujolà (Room 31)
Friday 11 September 15:00 – 15:30	Coffee Break
Friday 11 September 15:00 – 16:00	Poster Sessions Status of the Czech language and its perspectives Kateřina Černá Virtual Session Teaching International and Hungarian Gen Z Medical Students: Which Path Should Teachers Take at the Crossroads? Anna Dávidovics & Timea Németh Literarische Texte als Möglichkeit für Lernende, deren interkulturelle kommunikative Kompetenz zu fördern Petra Chládková English Learner Preconceptions and Beliefs about Learning Strategies and Curriculum: a Case of Technical University Students in an ESP Course Lenka Fišerová Virtual Session Translation and terminology management at Language Services, University of Helsinki Language Centre Irma Hallberg-Rautalin Transition from a Functional to a Professional Level of Language Proficiency in the Czech Military Stanislava Jonáková, Nataša Mocková & Francesco Daniel Muto 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 What Is Mediation in Language Learning and Teaching and How Does It Manifest? Michaela Konárková & Šárka Kadlecová Meetings and Social Skills course held in cooperation between USB and Tampere University: Project-based learning in practice Kateřina Kortusová Request strategies and modifications by Czech learners of English as a foreign language Marie Lahodová Vališová 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 Language integration of young refugees in the Czech Republic 2018-2020 Petr Pytlík & Radim Ošmera 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 Virtual Session Медицинский русский для начинающих Éva Katalin Varga
Friday 11 September 15:00 – 16:00	Corona Discussion Hub (Atrium)
Friday 11 September 16:05 – 16:35	Parallel Sessions Workshop Task-based learning, not task-supported teaching Mat Plews Workshop The metaphor factory Samuel Lagier Evaluating the effect of feedback on EFL writing quality and lexical sophistication: The perspective of psycholinguistic properties of words Blanka Pojslová Virtual Session Flipped Learning: New Roles, Relationships and Media in Communication Teaching Katariina Hollanti, Maiju Ranta, Janne Niinivaara & Tessa Horila 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 Workshop Upward-Facing Dog: motivation and flow in the Legal English classroom Barbora Chovancová, Štěpánka Bilová & Alena Hradilová Virtual Session Translingual transcultural competence: Student agency, teacher guidance, and program support Claudia Kunschak 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 Roundtable Fifty Shades of Grey: From TEAP to MEAP (My EAP) Shrouk Abdelgafar¹, Constanza Arriaga², Tony Corballis³, Janet Gibbons⁴, Sophie Otsuru Schieber⁵ & Libor Stepanek⁶ Panel Discussion Sustainability in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language (A UK Perspective) Catherine Xiang¹, Lijing Shi¹, Duo Luan² & Wei Shao³
Friday 11 September 16:40 – 17:10	Parallel Sessions Virtual Session Delivery of written assessment e-feedback to year abroad Mandarin learners Zhiqiong Chen Context of learning as a potential factor in successful language maintenance – A case study Linda Doleží¹, Marek Bartoň² & Michal Mikl² Virtual Session La danse classique pour favoriser l'apprentissage linguistique et le développement personnel Géraldine Crahay Virtual Session Portfolio Method at Budapest Business School: Introducing a Tailoring Process Mátyás Bánhegyi & Balázs Fajt
Friday 11 September 17:15 – 17:45	Parallel Sessions English for Mathematicians: The Textbook Challenge Lucie Malá Virtual Session Quel usage faire du CECRL dans les classes de langues étrangères multi-niveaux Catherine David Virtual Session Investigating approaches to listening for motivation and language development Anna Maria Csaki Speech is silver, silence is gold: What really happens during individual language counselling sessions Martina Šindelářová Skupeňová Virtual Session How is it possible to exercise and develop soft skills through group dynamics in the language class? Ivana Fratter¹ & Nadia Fratter² The integration of linguistic diversity awareness into the syllabus: The case of Arabic Rasha Soliman Quality Assurance in Portfolio Assessment Anjuli Pandavar Virtual Session Evaluation for Development: A Model for Empowering Actors and Stakeholders in the Development of Language Centre Curriculum Susanna Kohonen, Jonna Kosonen & Sinikka Kettunen
Friday 11 September 17:50 – 18:20	Parallel Sessions
Friday 11 September 17:50 – 18:55	CORONA EXPERIENCE: THE WAYS FORWARD Plenary Panel: Corona Experience (Room 31)
Friday 11 September 19:30 –	Conference Dinner
Saturday 12 September 8:00 – 8:30	Sport
Saturday 12 September 9:00 – 10:00	Evolution of University Internationalisation Strategies and Language Policies: Opportunities and challenges for Language Centres VIRTUAL PLENARY SESSION: Mark Critchley, Jocelyn Wyburd (Room 31)
Saturday 12 September 10:00 – 10:30	Coffee Break
Saturday 12 September 10:30 – 11:00	Parallel Sessions Beyond Science: ESP Vocabulary at an Inter-disciplinary Crossroads Markéta Dudová & Jana Kubrická Virtual Session Challenging opportunities for secondary school teachers: A new generation of learners in a CLIL class Margherita Pelleriti 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 Sabina Gola Workshop Mindsets - Teacher Meets Student Meets Attitude Eva Rudolfová Roundtable What role can language centres play in the training of academic staff to teach their subject in a second or foreign language? David Bowskill Integrated language skills assessment: how the TEEP inspired the language department of the faculty of science at the University of South Bohemia. Laura Haug
Saturday 12 September 11:05 – 11:35	Parallel Sessions Virtual Session Best practises of five years of online language education. The learner, the course and the language centre Jeroen van Engen 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) Catherine Hua Xiang Exercising Autonomy, or How My Students Make Decisions about Our Courses Lenka Zouhar Ludvíková Virtual Session Charting a Future for Out-of-Class Assessments: Harnessing the opportunities of autonomy and maximising positive learning behaviours Christopher Lacey
Saturday 12 September 11:40 – 12:10	Parallel Sessions Virtual Session Wortschatzerwerb im Unterricht: Wie kann man effektiv mit dem neuen Wortschatz arbeiten? Ivana Zolcerová English for university admin staff: it's all in the mix Pete Westbrook Fostering autonomy in learners with special needs: a specialized e-learning course Jitka Sedláčková & Lenka Tóthová Virtual Session The Benefits of class-based 'Self-expressive Writing' Activity in Beginners Language Courses: enhancing learning experience and outcomes Kiyo Roddis Comparative Study on Willingness to Communicate over Four Different Countries: Japan, Slovak Republic, Czech Republic, and Spain. Takayuki Nakanishi¹, Helena Sajgalikova² & Martin Mikulas³ Virtual Session Online Assessment of English and Other Languages Renáta Nagy
Saturday 12 September 12:20 – 13:20	Plenary (Cercles Panel) Plenary (Cercles Panel) Room 31
Saturday 12 September 13:20 – 13:45	Closing (Room 31)
Saturday 12 September 14:00 –	Post-conference Trip: VIRTUAL VISIT
Thursday 10 September 19:00 –	Welcome Drink