Quicker steps project: Third workshop week in Linz

The Dica team is participating in the 3d workshop of the Quicker steps project that takes place at at the Pädagogische Hochschule Oberösterreich, in Linz from Monday April 22 to Friday April 27, 2012.

On Tuesday, April 24, an open workshop is organized with the local collaborators of the Pädagogische Hochschule about the topic of

“Teachers

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Presentation on ‘Participatory sensing’ at Business Meets Research 2012

Prof Charles Max will present the paper “Participatory sensing: sharing, life, interconnecting communities” as contribution of the SnT-initiated workshop  Smart Living with mixed reality  at the “Business Meets Research” Event 2012.

The workshops at BMR are designed to promote discussion and exchange between leading R&D and innovation actors. The themes of the different workshops are related to the “Luxembourg Cluster Initiative”: BioHealth, EcoInnovation, ICT, Materials

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Dica-lab at AERA 2012

Charles Max presented a paper about ITE with a specific focus on “Educating teacher as experts in learning: A chat perspective on transforming ITE” at the AERA 2012 annual meeting in Vancouver (BC). This paper was part of the international symposium ‘Cultural-Historical approaches to teacher education:Examining Collaboration, Expertise, and Mentoring in Teacher Learning’  convened by

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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.

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