The second symposium of our Lancaster-Ghent partnership will take place on April 18-19, 2017, in Ghent. The topic is “Multilingualism: Language learning and testing”. Day 1 will feature talks by Lancaster and Ghent colleagues, Day 2 consists of a workshop on corpus linguistics. The Lancaster delegation will consist of Vaclav Brezina, Tineke Brunfaut, Aina Casaponsa, Dana Gablasova, Luke Harding, and Diane Potts. The local organizer is Piet van Avermaet (piet.vanavermaet@ugent.be).
We will upload the final program later this month.
We are grateful to the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences (FASS) Internationalization Fund for the financial support.
Multilingualism: Language learning and testing
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Day 1: Tuesday, April 18
8.30: Registration
8.45: Welcome
9.00: Vaclav Brezina and Dana Gablasova (Lancaster) : Lancaster corpus-based linguistic research: Advances in corpus tools and corpora
9:50: Discussion
10:15: Aina Casaponsa (Lancaster): Foreign language comprehension achievement: insights from the cognate facilitation effect
10:40: Ellen Simon and Mieke Van Herreweghe (Ghent): Media-induced Second Language Acquisition
11:05: Discussion
11.30: Coffee break
11:50: Diane Potts, Lancaster University: Multilingualism, plurilingualism, translanguaging: Meaning-making in the field of applied linguistics
12:15: Fauve De Backer, Stef Slembrouck and Piet Van Avermaet (Ghent): Pupils’ perceptions on accommodations in multilingual assessment of science
12:40: Discussion
13:05: Lunch break
14:15: Tineke Brunfaut and Luke Harding (Lancaster): Methodological and theoretical innovations in language testing
15:15: Frank van Splunder (Antwerp) and Catherine Verguts (Ghent): Language Policy and Language Testing in Flanders
15:45: Discussion
16:15: Conclusions and futher cooperation
16:45: Reception
Day 2: Wednesday, April 19, 2017
8:30: Registration
9:00: Welcome
9:00: Dana Gablasova and Vaclav Brezina (Lancaster): Corpus linguistics workshop
12:00: Lunch break