Project LS6 at Expolangues in Paris

The project “Language  Learning and Social Media: 6 key dialogues”(LS6) was offered the possibility of disseminating its innovative approach and ongoing work in the field of language learning at a workshop the Euproean Commission is organising at Expolangues 2012. The Expolangues fair is an international event in the field of language learning and takes place

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Workshop on “Co-operation and partnership solutions with working life in multilingual contexts”

On November 8, the University of Luxembourg will organise an open workshop, which might be of interest for all actors, who are in charge of initial and lifelong learning programs in the various areas of professional life (program coordinators, teachers, professional partners and students).

Two major topics of the Luxembourg economic context and the related

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Research papers at International ISCAR congress, Rome, Sept. 5-10, 2011

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Research papers at International ISCAR congress, Rome, Sept. 5-10, 2011

The following research papers and panels have been accepted and were presented at the 2011 ISCAR international congress, Rome.

http://www.iscar2011.org/eng/info_iscar.php

Symposium – Beyond acquisition and participation: empirical studies on dialectical learning approaches in early education (Chair: Charles Max – Univ. of Luxembourg, Discussant: Jaan

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Research workshop – Learning in multilingual contexts, 31.8.-2.9.2011

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Research workshop -  Learning in multilingual contexts,  31.8.-2.9.2011

Professors Charles Max and Gudrun Ziegler of University of Luxembourg hosted DICA-lab’s research workshop on “Learning in multilingual contexts” which took place on Campus Walferdange,  August 31 – September 2, 2011. The twenty participants – of University of Kaiserslautern,  Northeastern University,  Luxembourg University and European School (Luxembourg)

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Presentation at IASCL – Development of Luxembourgish in young L2 learners

Gudrun Ziegler and Marnie Ludwig are presenting a paper based on data from the FundaLUX project at the 12th International Congress for the Study of Child Language at the UQAM- Université du Québec à Montréal Canada (July 19 to 23, 2011).

Exploring the impact of language norms on second language development, the current paper investigates

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Best paper award for DICA-lab at 17th International Conference on Concurrent Enterprising

Aachen/Luxembourg/Bremen, June 22, 2011

The team working with Ass.-Prof. Gudrun Ziegler on multilingual and multimodal interactions in complex engineering processes received this year’s best paper award at the International Conference on Concurrent Enterprising, held in Aachen from 20-22 June, 2011 (http://www.ice-conference.org/).

The successful paper was selected among 170 papers and deals with critical instances within

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DICA collaborators at the first-ever-EU-China Multilingualism conference, May 19, 2011

Claudia Albanese, Simina Petraru, Jun Song, Mikkel Stroerup and Katerina Zourou were invited to the first-ever EU-Chine Multilingual conference, May 19, in Brussels.

The presentation by Claudia, Katerina and Mikkel was very successful and the Head of Unit Multilingualism of the European Commission warmly congratulated the team for their lively and highly interactive contribution.

Pictures

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DICA collaborators at the first-ever-EU-China Multilingualism conference, May 19, 2011

DICA collaborators have been invited by the Commission to attend the the first-ever-EU-China Multilingualism conference within the EU-China Year of Youth  2011

Findings of the EU network “language learning and social media: 6 key dialogues” will also be presented

Watch the video “learning languages with social media“conceived and realized by Claudia Albanese and

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Follow the acquisition teams blog – Residential Week – Multilingualism

Blogging on … Residential Week – Multilingualism

Follow the updates via the DICA-lab acquisition blog as Members of the Acquisition teams of DICA-lab take part in the Residential Week in Multilingualism hosted by The MOSAIC Centre for Research on Multilingualism at the University of Birmingham. During this 5-day course, they will attend sessions on

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“How to run successful webinars?” on the 2010 Global Education Conference

Katerina Zourou and Fred Dervin, University of Turku – Finland, presented a “meta-webinar” at the 2010 Global Education Conference (for more details, please see below)

How to run successful webinars? Lessons learnt and challenges for learning and collaboration at a global level

TIME: GMT Tue 16 Nov 2010 01:00PM

Recording of the session available here:

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