You're kindly invited to our next virtual Plurilingual Lab Speaker Series event with Dr. Åsta Haukås of the University of Bergen, Norway.
Exploring plurilingual pedagogies in Scandinavia: What do we know and where do we go from here?
All people living in Scandinavia are plurilingual. They may not necessarily identify as such themselves, however, and some groups of people are more often regarded as plurilingual than others. In this talk, I first present recent research on beliefs about and approaches to plurilingual education in the Scandinavian context. Second, I argue that there is a mismatch between researchers’ increasing interest in the phenomenon and the actual implementation of plurilingual approaches in education. Third, I point towards various initiatives to address this mismatch and suggest ways to move our field forward. Among other things, I present the freely available Ungspråk questionnaire, that can be used to explore students plurilingualism and plurilingual identities, and the MULTIWRITE project, exploring language teacher collaboration in and across language subjects in school.
Bio
Dr. Åsta Haukås is a professor of applied linguistics and language teacher educator in the Department of Foreign Languages at the University of Bergen, Norway. Her research interests include plurilingualism in education, plurilingual identity, metacognition, language teacher psychology, and language teachers' professional development. She is the head of the research group Multilingualism on My Mind (MoMM)
When: January 26, 2023 (Thursday)
Time: 12pm-1:30pm (EST, Montreal)
Mode of delivery: synchronous via Zoom
All attendees must register by January 25, 2023. Register here
This is a public event and all are welcome. This Speaker Series is sponsored by Concordia University's Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance, and co-organized by the BILD Research Group and McGill's Department of Integrated Studies in Education (DISE). A recording will be made available on the Plurilingual Lab YouTube channel.
