2024 - Change in Link Convenor
After a year of shadowing, Jenni Alisaari (University of Stockholm) took over as Link Convenor after ECER 2024 from Irina Usanova.
2024 – NW 31 Special Calls
"Linguistically responsive pedagogies (or language awareness) in teaching all subjects" and "Multilingual pedagogies supporting students' learning in all subjects"
2023 - NW 31 Joint Special Call with NW 07 and NW 20
Multiliteracies in Intercultural and Multilingual Education: Bridging Identities, Practices and Learning Environments
2022 - Summer School
The network 31 members collaborated with Next Generation Literacies Network on organizing a virtual summer school, «Multiliteracies development in multilingual contexts and across the educational biography,» that was held at the University of Hamburg, Germany.
2019 - Special Call
NW 31 offered the joint special call with NW 20 at ECER 2019: Reflections on cultural and linguistic diversity in educational research
2018-2019 - Project
"Determining Research Priorities in Language Education across Europe"
Convenors and active network participants in six European countries will conduct a Delphi survey as a means to investigate pressing research needs in the areas of language education.
2018 - Change in Link Convenor
After ECER 2018 in Bolzano, Irina Usanova (Hamburg State University, Germany) took over as new Link Convenor from Joana Duarte (Netherlands).
2013 - First Link Convenor
Joana Duarte (Netherlands) served the network as Link Convenor from the beginning in 2013 until ECER 2018 in Bolzano.
2013 - Network Founded
Network 31 had its official start with an inaugural symposium at ECER 2013 in Istanbul on “Multilingualism in the Mainstream Classroom as a Means to Enhancing Creativity and Innovation in Education – Examples from Video Studies“ . The thematic areas of the network as well as the convenors were briefly presented before the speakers started. The symposium had then four speakers:
- Exploiting multilingual repertoires as a resource for learning – Piet Van Avermaet
- Multilingualism in subject-matter classes – a case I favour of multilingualism in mainstream
classrooms – Joana Duarte - Multilingual school population: a lever for linguistically innovative classroom? – Anouk Van
der Wildt, Piet Van Avermaet and Mieke Van Houtte - Study without boarders: multilingualism as a resource for teaching and learning in higher
education – Fancine Uwera and Adelheid Hu
The discussion of the symposium was conducted by Ingrid Gogolin and included a broader approach to the upcoming activities of the network.
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