LASIG 2022: Reforming the foreign language classroom

Reforming the foreign language classroom – empowering students to take ownership III

Together with LASIG/ IATEFL, the Montessori Foundation Berlin will host a one-day conference on autonomy in language learning.

Please join us for our local LASIG Event „Reforming the foreign language classroom – empowering students to take ownership III“ held at the Montessori Campus Berlin Köpenick – in Berlin, Germany on 17 September 2022.

This third event in a series will focus on inclusive language learning in school settings that already provide learners with some responsibility for their learning. The organizers (Annika Albrecht, Carmen Becker, Leni Dam and Katja Heim) are inspired by the wish to discuss the potentials and challenges of learning and teaching English in open learning scenarios with like-minded people. The plenary is held by Lienhard Legenhausen.

Download the Flyer of the LASIG Event in Berlin

Registration

Please note – you can only register online for the event.

To register online, please click here

https://www.iatefl.org/events/345

The deadline for registrations is 7 September 2022
Deadline Early Bird: 15 June 2022

In case of difficulties with the registration, please get in contact with Eleanor: sig@iatefl.org

Registration Fee

Regular Fee Members                    £50
Regular Fee Non-Members          £60
Regular Fee Students                     £25

As a student please indicate „LABerlin2022Student“.

Please note: Registration & payment (link) are only possible online.
Please indicate „Lasig Event Berlin 2022“ on your bank transfer.

For information concerning registration, payment and membership, please contact Eleanor Baynham at info@iatefl.org.

For more concrete information about the local event in Berlin, please contact: lasig-2022@montessori-stiftung.de

Program

8:15 Registration, Coffee and Tea

9:00 Opening of Conference. Welcome Notes and Practical Issues.

09:05 Plenary Lienhard Legenhausen

10:00 Tea & Coffee break

10:30 Talk: Camilla Honkainen-Miller

11:00 Talk: Julia Specht-Gräff

11:30 Talk: Peter Schildhauer

12:00 ‚Student time‘: Discussion

12:50 Introduction to Workshops

01:00 Lunch break

02:20 Organisation of Workshops

02:30 Workshops

04:00 Tea & Coffee break

04:30 Together time: final reflection and Q&A

05:30 End of Day and Farewell

Abstracts

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Plenary Speaker: Prof. em. Lienhard Legenhausen

Abstract
Issues in inclusive education and some answers from autonomous language learning

One of the greatest issues in present day pedagogical discussions and educational politics is the question of how to implement the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The German Parliament ratified it in 2009. Ever since, there have been heated, even polemical debates in the educational literature, on the one hand, and disillusioned practitioners who are forced to implement the law, on the other.

I will introduce basic principles of inclusion, discuss some of the issues involved in their implementation, and then argue that the experiences and achievements of autonomous language learning, gained over several decades, will be of great help to inclusive classrooms.

Prof. Dr. Lienhard Legenhausen / Foto: privat

Biographical information

Lienhard Legenhausen is Professor Emeritus of Language Pedagogy at the University of Münster, Germany. His research interests include the study of learner language, technology-enhanced language learning as well as learner-centred approaches to classroom learning/teaching. Together with Leni Dam, Denmark, he carried out the LAALE project (Language Acquisition in an Autonomous Learning Environment) in which they systematically observed the linguistic development of a class of Danish mixed ability learners over a period of four years. For the last 12 years he has taught methodology courses and linguistics in the English and German departments of the National University of Cherkasy, Ukraine. Together with David Little and Leni Dam he co-authored Language Learner Autonomy – Theory, Practice and Research, published by Multilingual Matters in 2017.