IEREST Symposium
Languages and interculturality for student mobility
Date
09.00-17.30, Tuesday, 28 April 2015
Venue
Université Savoie Mont Blanc, Chambéry (France)
Jacob-Bellecombette Campus, Building 5
The symposium
The focus of the symposium is on the relations between language training and intercultural education in student mobility. The IEREST project targets all students, not specifically those studying languages, but for any student, educational mobility is likely to involve dealing with other languages and cultural codes and understanding how language and culture interact. The purpose of the symposium is to discuss the theoretical framework of this interaction and to illustrate practical activities that can help teachers and institutions to prepare their students to derive maximum benefit from their international experience. The symposium will thus be of interest to all those concerned with intercultural/language teaching, student mobility and educational exchanges in higher education, in language centres or in upper-level secondary education.
Programme (download the programme in French and English).
9.00: Arrival and Registration
9.15: Greetings
Ana Beaven, University of Bologna
John Osborne, University of Savoie Mont Blanc, Chambéry
9.30: Introduction to the symposium: mobility, languages and intercultural education
John Osborne, University of Savoie Mont Blanc, Chambéry
10.00: Teaching the intercultural in the language classroom: insights from the IEREST project
Lucia Livatino, University of Bologna
Ana Beaven, University of Bologna
10.30: Coffee break
10.45: Breakout sessions: Activities from IEREST modules
Workshop 1: Experiencing (interculturality through) volunteering
Basil Vassilicos, University of Leuven
Workshop 2: Bringing interculturality back home
Neva Čebron, University of Primorska
Prue Holmes, University of Durham
12.15: Reflections on the activities from each workshop
Jan Van Maele, University of Leuven
12.45: Lunch
14.00: Workshop 3. Integrating language objectives in IEREST activities
Ana Beaven, University of Bologna
Claudia Borghetti, University of Bologna
16.00: Coffee break
16.15: Roundtable. Languages and cultures in international mobility: teachers, students and international officers
17.15: Conference close
Symposium languages
The working languages of the symposium are English and French. Presentations will be in English with accompanying slides in French, or in French with slides in English
Free registration
- All participants should register for the symposium HERE by the 20th of April
- Please note that there is no participation fee associated with this event and that coffee breaks and lunch are offered by the IEREST project
How to get to Chambéry & hotels
Find some information HERE
Contacts
Contact us at info@ierest.eu
