DICA-lab

Annual New Year’s meeting

Charles — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:58:37 +0000

Dica-lab celebrated its 6th annual New Year’s meeting with friends, collaborators and external partners on January 20, 2012.

Project LS6 at Expolangues in Paris

Charles — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:02:10 +0000

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 in Paris from February 1st to 4th.

On the 2nd of February, the European Commission is organising a full day of events about its ongoing work in language learning which will include presentations on the future programme, the various initiatives of the Multilingualism unit, a round table with a panel of experts and last but not least a workshop with projects. The workhop will take place between 13h and 14h15 and present

- a short introduction
- three projects presenting their results, pedagogical approach, methodologies, and impact
- a session of questions and answers

Moreover, beyond the workshop contribution, the LS6 project will also be present at the official EC stand the four days of the fair and initiate interactive activities concerning language learning and social media. The idea is to invite expo-visitors and interested volunteers to share their thoughts, stories, testimonies… about meaningful language learning processes and social media (as promoted within the LS6 project). The object is to move the visitor from a viewer to a contributor through

- tweets or blog posts (text-based),
- 60 second video clips,
- short audio comments
- screencasts as commented activities on a website

All these contributions are disseminated instantly via our dica-lab LS6 Blog with the request/option for further commenting and extending the contributions on the site.

It would be great meeting you in Paris or on our blog. Please find the programme attached to this post

Expolangues_programme_overview

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

Charles — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:11:36 +0000

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 “Inspiring Woman of the Year Awards” is open to inspiring women to celebrate the woman behind the organisation, association or business, her personal successes and achievements and how she individually inspires others”. More details are available on

http://www.women-leaders.eu/Uk/Trophee/Participating.asp?ID=5

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

Charles — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 10:56:53 +0000

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

Get the article free of charge via Springer – Online First

The purpose of this special issue is to identify trends and effective practices of multilingual education in different regions of the world such as Africa, the Americas, Asia and Pacific and Europe, which will highlight the characteristics of effective practices and common problems. For each region, the discussion starts with an introductory article which captures the new trends in the region. Case studies from formal and non-formal education follow all educational levels and age groups. In these studies authors critically analyse the integration of the multilingual ethos and culture into the development and conceptualisation of the education programme with regard to literacy and oracy, teacher training and the development of a literate environment, and the extent to which these programmes open up to a lifelong learning process. Furthermore, the role, the status, the function and the timing of the languages of instruction will be analysed, as well as the way language acquisition and learning are conceived as part of the conceptual framework.

Article available via http://www.springerlink.com/

Activity report 2011

Charles — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 22:12:49 +0000

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”

Jun — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:28:22 +0000

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 of these tools and appliations in their language classrooms and beyond? Some of questions will be discussed throughout the webinar session.

“ Teacher training in the age of Web 2.0: The current situation & future perspectives”.

This event will be broadcasted Live via
Elluminate on Wednesday November 30th, 2011 time 14:00-15:00 CET(GMT+1)

Invited speakers for this Webinar session:

Christine Develotte, ENS de Lyon-Ifé , France

Mirjam Hauck, Open University, UK

Melinda Dooly, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona ,Spain

For free registration, please contact to

ls6.teachertraining@gmail.com

Downloadable poster is here

LS6 team

This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.

This publication[communication] reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information
contained therein..

Experts video

Jun — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 10:22:50 +0000

A EU-funded networkLanguage Learning and Social Media: 6 Key Dialogues is pleased to announced the release of experts video. The series of expert video explores truly interdisciplinary perspectives in the role of social media on the development of language learning and on the empowerment of language learning communities.

The interviews were realised in the occasion of the Webinar session “Language resources and Web 2.0 – the latest hype or new perspectives?” in 2010 and reconceptualised with the aim to shed light on the language learning, quality control, learning community and user generated content (UGC) in the Web 2.0 era.

The series of expert video will, hopefully, give you a thoughtful moment resonated from expert’s insightful opinions.

You can visit the official website for experts video for more details.

You can watch videos in Vimeo.

Also follow us through Twitter,Linkedin,Mendeley.

Enjoy watching!!!

Language Learning and Social Media: 6 Key Dialogues

This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.

This publication[communication] reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

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

Jun — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 10:20:34 +0000

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, Italy, and the United Kingdom) who were recruited in six youth centres, members of the umbrella institution Y.E.S. Forum, through a questionnaire-based survey. The research team from Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) has conducted an excellent research about the language learning with relation to ICT based on the responses of the collected questionnaires.

This transversal study aims to gain a better understanding of the kind of strategies developed, the tools and resources these learners use and the kind of social synergies that are supportive to trainers, teacher, family and friends.

The offcial release of the study is here. The study is available here.

Enjoy reading

Language Learning and Social Media: 6 Key Dialogues

This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.

This publication[communication] reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made ofthe information contained therein.

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

Charles — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 17:50:27 +0000

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 challenges will be addressed in particular during this day, i.e.

Innovation and/from diversity in Luxembourg
Multilingual and -cultural issues of the Luxembourg working context

The workshop is part of an international project, which brings together experts from Finland, Austria, the United Kingdom and Luxembourg in order to collect, reflect and disseminate knowledge and best practices of diverse co-operation and partnership solutions between educational institutions and working life. The aim of the project is to improve students’ possibilities to make quicker/easier steps into working life from higher education as mentioned by the project title “QUICKER STEPS FROM EDUCATION TO WORKING-LIFE”. The project is funded by the European Social Fund and the Finnish Centre for Economic Development, Transport and Environment (Central Finland ELY-Centre).

The workshop (see documents attached) will take place on Tuesday, November 8, from 09.00 to 17.00 h at the Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication (Campus Kirchberg).

It is free of any charges and the project group would be very pleased to welcome you amongst the workshop participants. You can enroll for the event using the link below

http://www.quickersteps.net/

Download: flyer and workshop program

Social media and City life

Charles — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:14:17 +0000

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.