- Abstracts and biodata
- Biodatas of the speakers
Biodatas of the speakers
Phil Ball is based in San Sebastián in Spain. He is the co-author of the book ‘Putting CLIL into Practice’ (OUP 2015) and his CLIL textbook series for the Basque curriculum was nominated for the ELTONS Innovation Award in London. He is module leader on the MA CLIL degree for NILE in England and his work has included consultancy projects in Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Austria, Japan and Qatar.
He has been involved in several European-based CLIL projects and has written a wide variety of CLIL-based textbooks for the Basque and Spanish social science and English language programmes. He co-designed the new ‘CLIL Essentials’ online course for the British Council and works at the University of the Basque Country (UPV) training lecturers to deliver their subjects through English. He also works with vocational teachers at the University of Vienna and on the OTA masterclasses at Christ Church, Oxford.
He has authored various CLIL-based articles and is currently working on digital language
materials for the French and English CLIL programmes in the north of Spain.
Phil presents the topic : KEYNOTE SESSION. COMPETENCES THROUGH CLIL IN NON-TRADITIONAL LEARNING SPACES
Phil conducts a workshop: COMPETENCE-BASED CLIL-INFUSED PROJECTS
Pille Põiklik, PhD, is a chief expert at the Language Policy Department of the Ministry of Education and Research, Estonia. Her work involves supporting foreign language learning, Estonian as a second language learning for adult learners and multilingualism in Estonia. Pille is a member of the Governing Board of the European Centre for Modern Languages. Prior to joining the Language Policy Department, Pille worked at the English Department of the University of Tartu, teaching practical English, academic writing as well as courses on media literacy and discourse analysis.
Pille presents the topic: COVID LESSONS FOR THE TEACHING AND LEARNING OF LANGUAGES
Anna Golubeva works in Narva College of the University of Tartu as the Head of the Centre of Multilingual Education. She previously worked as Chief Specialist in the Estonian Language Immersion Centre where she coordinated the preschool network and was also involved in development and implementation of the two-way language immersion model. She is currently a PhD student at Dublin City University. The topic of her research is professional development needs of preschool language immersion teachers in Estonia.
Anna presents the topic: IS LANGUAGE IMMERSION THE REMEDY FOR CHALLENGES OF LINGUISTICALLY DIVERSE CLASSROOM?
Enrica Piccardo, PhD, is a Professor of Applied Linguistics and Language Education at OISE, University of Toronto, and director of the OISE Centre for Educational research in Languages and Literacies (CERLL). A collaborator with the Council of Europe since 2008 and co-author of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) Companion Volume (Council of Europe, 2020), she has coordinated international research projects on language teaching innovation in Canada and Europe. Her research spans language teaching approaches, multi/plurilingualism, creativity and complexity in language education.
Among her publications: Piccardo, E. & North, B. (2019). The Action-oriented Approach. A Dynamic Vision of Language Education Bristol: Multilingual Matters; Piccardo, E., Germain Rutherford A. & Lawrence, G. (2021). The Routledge Handbook of Plurilingual language Education. London: Routledge; Piccardo, E., Lawrence, G., Germain Rutherford A., & Galante A. (2022). Activating Linguistic and Cultural Diversity in the Language Classroom. New York: Springer.
Enrica presents the topic: GETTING A CLOSER LOOK AT THE CEFR COMPANION VOLUME: THE CONCEPTS OF MEDIATION AND PLURILINGUALISM: FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE
Joseph Hopkins is a language teacher/teacher trainer and is the Director of the Centre for Modern Languages at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. He is a coordinator of the project ICT-REV. His interests are web-based language teaching and learning, language teaching management, ICT training for language teachers, and computermediated communication
Phill conducts a workshop: USING ICT IN SUPPORT OF LANGUAGE TEACHING AND LEARNING SELECTING AND EVALUATING DIGITAL RESOURCES FOR TEACHING LANGUAGE
Lukas Bleichenbacher is a teacher educator for English and foreign language methodology at the St. Gallen University of Teacher Education (PHSG) in Switzerland.
As a researcher with the Institute for Language Education at PHSG, he has contributed to various projects related to teacher competences, foreign language learning, language policy, plurilingualism and intercultural education. He has been involved a number of projects at the European Centre for Modern Languages of the Council of Europe, including PluriMobil and, as a coordinator, A Guide to teacher competences for languages in education and Building blocks for language-sensitive teacher education
Lukas conducts a workshop: PLURILINGUAL AND INTERCULTURAL APPROACHES