Multilingual Literacies - Online Conference

This listing concerns a series of two events funded by the European Educational Research Association (EERA), and organised by EERA Network 31. The events are part of a larger project, entitled:

Developing Multilingual Literacies – Exploring the role of communities for literacy development in multilingual families

The events will be hosted on Blackboard Collaborate, access details will be made available post-registration.

On Monday, 5th October, 9am - 3.15pm UK time, listen to and engage with research from PGR students from the UK, Netherlands, Germany, and Luxembourg.

On Tuesday, 6th October, 9am - 11am UK time, listen to and engage with research presented by the project team:

Dr Sabine Little, University of Sheffield, UK (Lead)

Dr Claudine Kirsch - Luxembourg

Dr Mirjam Günther-van der Meij and Dr Joana Duarte – Netherlands

Dr Irina Usanova – Germany

The event is supported by the School of Education Literacies Research Cluster (University of Sheffield), and the UK Literacy Association.

Schedule - all times are UK times

5th October 2020:

9am -9.30am: Welcome (Irina Usanova and Sabine Little): Introduction to EERA, Network 31, and the project

9.30-10.30 : Leeuwarden, the Netherlands

Mirjam Günther: Introduction and context

Maaike Pulles: Dialogic writing with young children

Janke Singelsma and Jolanda Verhoef: FF Keunstich Frysk: ways of implementing Frisian in the higher grades of primary education (incl. literacy)

10.30-11 - break

11-12 : University of Luxembourg (Flavia Bley, Kevin Simoes, Valérie Kemp): Multilingualism and literacy in the Early Years in Luxembourg

12-13 : University of Hamburg, Germany

Irina Usanova: Introduction

Yi Shen: „Parents’ Role and Heritage Language Maintenance in Chinese Immigrant Families in Germany“

Antje Hansen: “Investigating linguistic and individual influences of competent

biliterate and monoliterate elementary school children in Germany – a

qualitiative analyses ?“

13-14 - break (lunch)

14-15 : Presentations 4: University of Sheffield, UK

Sabine Little: Introduction and context

Kexin Cheng: Apps and Young Children’s Early Literacy Development

Michelle Panzavecchia: In Other Words: Maltese Primary School Teachers’ Perceptions and Use of Cross-linguistic Practices and Flexible Language Pedagogies in Bilingual and Multilingual English Language Classes

15.00: Thank you, preview of 6th October (research team presentations), and close.

6th October 2020 (all times are UK times)

9.00-9.30am - Irina Usanova: “Multilingual development: a longitudinal perspective (MEZ): Multiliterate skills in adolescents”.

9.30am-10am - Claudine Kirsch: Multilingual literacy practices in crèches in Luxembourg: preliminary findings from questionnaires.

10am - 10.30am - Mirjam Günther: Raising awareness for multilingualism for literacy coaches / reading consultants

10.30am - 11am - Sabine Little: How multilingual children experience reading across their various languages…and how a multilingual children’s library can help

Some of the data presented will belong to current, ongoing research projects, so we have been asked to share the following:

All information (e.g. findings, data), documentation (e.g. movies, pictures, transcripts) as well as the presentation slides belong to the presenters (and if applicable, to their higher education institutions), and shall not be communicated or made available to any third parties. Changing, duplicating, using, reproducing and publishing of the digital material is also prohibited.

Image by Lucy Fleming, funded by AHRC/OWRI.