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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 
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) The EACEA (Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency) of the European Commission has selected the DICA-lab application ”Improving web strategies and maximizing social media presence of LLP projects” / Web2LLP“ for EU co-financing. 71 applications have been submitted to the 2011 Lifelong Learning Call and the success rate was 7%. The entire list of selected projects might be 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 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 On November 8 – 9, 2011, DICA-lab at University of Luxembourg will organise a workshop (1,5 day), which brings together coordinators, teachers, students and professional partners of academic programs from Luxembourg (UL and other training institutions) and the greater region. This workshop is the UL part of an international project with members from Finland, Luxembourg, Are you a language teacher? Do you use social media in your teaching practice? If yes, join the award-winning competition The European network “Language Learning and Social Media – 6 Key Dialogues” kindly invites language teachers to participate in the Social Media use in formal Language Teaching Contexts Competition 2011. The competition aims to identify good A systemic functional approach to translation competence by Prof. Dr. Viviana Gaballo, University of Macerata Université du Luxembourg, Campus Walfer, ROOM: MONTESSORI In the past decades in which Translation Studies has become firmly established as an academic discipline in its own right, research flourished as to the designation and definition of translation competence. The concept 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 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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