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Next Generation Literacies Symposia 2021 & 2022

Language Diversity Online-Symposium & Workshop
30. November - 02. December 2022

The Next Generation Literacies Network aims to investigate institutional structures of dealing with language diversity within and across countries. Therefore, the network brings together researchers from different countries and promotes dialogue. This online symposium provides an opportunity to learn about some of the members’ research projects. Contributions reach from multiliteracies development and the Complex Dynamic Systems Theory via translanguaging approaches that can be used in mainstream classrooms, plurilingual pedagogies and digital technologies to support learning, to research that empirically assesses an array of cross-disciplinary language skills and their contribution to adolescents’ reading comprehension, applying a newly proposed operational construct, Core Academic Language Skills (CALS).

In addition to the symposium, the two workshops give insights on data sharing in qualitative research and academic publishing in social media.

 Additional Information: In preparation for the symposium, you will find a detailed overview of the respective lectures in the Book of Abstracts.

Nov 30. Online Symposium.

8:30 am CEST: Multiliteracy through the lens of Complex Dynamic Systems Theory (Usanova/Schnoor)

9:15 am CEST: Language-Based Inequalities? (Duarte)

10:00 am CEST: Plurilingual Pedagogies and Digital Technologies to Support Learning (Le Pichon-Vorstman)

10:30 am CEST: Core Analytic Language Skills: Towards an Innovative Approach of Teaching and Assessing the Language of School Literacy (Wenjuan Qin)

Dec 1. Network Meeting & Workshop

8:30-9:30 am CEST: Next Generation Literacies Network-Meeting

10:00 am -1:00 pm CEST: Sharing and Reusing Data in Qualitative Research: Balancing Potentials and Challenges (Bayer/Lösch)

Dec 2. Workshop

8:30 am – 10:30 am CEST: Academic Publishing in Social Media (Piller/Li)






Online-Symposium
Language Diversity and Participation Across Generations and Contexts
10. - 11. December 2021

Language diversity is a feature of all contemporary differentiated societies around the globe. Due to migration, globalization and new communication technologies, individuals need to cope with and be able to use multiple languages in order to actively participate in the society. This symposium contextualizes the potential of multiliteracy throughout an individuals’ lifespan in multiple contexts (academia, education, home and workplace). For one, the symposium looks at the development and support of multiliteracy in the family, through the educational path, until integration in the work place. More specifically, the talks give insight into how families use digital media and how professionals in school deal and foster multiliteracy. Subsequently, as individuals get older, multilateral skills become an asset for professional success, also in academic settings. 

Dec 10, Online Symposium

Keynote, 08:00 – 08:45 am

  • “Believe it or not: Linguistic diversity and credibility in asylum procedures” – Laura Smith-Khan, University of Technology Sydney

NGP Network meeting 09:00 – 09:55 am

Session 1 “Inclusion in academic publishing”, 10:00 – 11:00 am

  • „Does the language of publication change research content?” – Ingrid Piller, Macquarie University
  • "You've got to keep above the water not to drown: The translingual journey of a multilingual scholar's academic publishing practices" – Yongyan Zheng, Fudan University

Session 2 “Access to the work place”, 11:15 – 12:15 am

  • "Language diversity and access to the workplace: reflecting on different forms of communication and approaches to teaching and learning" – Lucy Taksa, Centre for Workforce Futures, Macquarie Business School
  • „Multiple languages and their return on the labor market“ – Eva Markowsky & Miriam Beblo, Universität Hamburg

Dec 11, Online Symposium

Session 1 “Empowering vulnerable groups in education”, 12:00 – 1:00 pm

  • “Coping with the dynamics of language and inequality in a primary school in Germany” – Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer, Universität Hamburg
  • "Translanguaging as a pedagogy of empowerment: insight from a composition course for bilingual Latinxs in a US university." – Josh Prada, Indiana University

Session 2 “Multilingual potential across the life span”, 1:00 – 2:00 pm

  • “Yes, they can! Development of multiliteracy in secondary education.” – Ingrid Gogolin, Universität Hamburg
  • "Digital polycentricity and diasporic connectivity: engagement in multilingual families“ – Jannis Androutsopoulos, Universität Hamburg