Gudrun Ziegler awarded ‘inspiring Woman of the Year” in the domain of Science, Technology and Research

Dica-lab congratulates its founding member  Dr. Gudrun Ziegler who receives the award “Inspiring Woman of the Year” in the category “Science, Research & Technology”

Dr. Gudrun Ziegler receives the award “Inspiring Woman of the Year” in the category “Science, Research & Technology” for her academic achievements.

In her speech she addressed the fact that few

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Science, Technology, Research – Award nomination – “Inspiring Woman of the Year”

Gudrun Ziegler has been nominated in the category “Science,  Technology  &  Research” for the Award “Inspiring Woman of the Year” ,  an initiative to recognise and promote role models who serve to inspire others,  share and voice the success of women in important areas of today’s societies. Voting is now open!

The initiative of the

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Now available online “Innovation in Learning and Development in Mutilingual and Multicultural Contexts”

Innovation in Learning and Development in Multilingual and Multicultural Contexts – Principles learned from a Higher Educational Study Programme in Luxembourg (by G. Ziegler) in: International Review of Education, Vol. 57

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The purpose of this special issue is to identify trends and effective practices of

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Activity report 2011

The DICA group has finished its activity report for 2011.

You will find the document on menu section RESEARCH – ACTIVITY REPORT – 2011

or following the link: http://dica-lab.org/files/2011/12/DICA_ANNUAL_report_20111.pdf

30th November Webinar “Teacher training in the age of Web 2.0: The current situation & future perspectives”

A EU-funded “Language learning and Social media – 6 key dialogues”(LS6) is pleased to announce the new Webinar  with regard to teacher trainning.

As screens play a growing part in our daily communication, as meeting possilbities have increased with social networks, how shall we prompt and train our teachers to take advantage of the potential

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The publication of the study ” Young people with fewer opportunities learning languages informally: perceptions and uses of ICT and social media”

A EU-funded network Language Learning and Social Media: 6 Key Dialogues (LS6) is pleased to announce a publication of  the study of “Young people with fewer opportunities learning languages informally: perceptions and uses of ICT and social media”.

This study was conducted with young people with fewer opportunities from six European countries (Germany, Netherlands, France, Hungary,

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Social media and City life

Members of DICA-lab, including Profes Max and Ziegler together with representatives of SnT participated in a project meeting on September 13, 2011 – on social media and shared urban living at the city of Esch.

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

ISCAR - Sympos Mentoring panelists preparation talk Laitinen

 

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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Webinar “Where languages collide: How multilingual literacies make social media real”

14 June 2011, University of Luxembourg and broadcast live, 4 PM

Media and more specifically social media exist in and through multiple languages – in keyboarding, texting, dubbing, subtitling, translating, gaming and in many other ways of media interaction. Multilingualism is key when participating in (social) media. Media literacy is build from various languages

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