Intergovernmental seminar on
“Meeting the challenge of multilingual classrooms: exploiting plurilingual repertoires, managing transitions and developing proficiency
in the language(s) of schooling”

Strasbourg, 7-8 March 2012

PROGRAMME^new including presentations


Wednesday 7 March 2012
09.00–10.00 Chair : Johanna Panthier	OFFICIAL OPENING – Ólöf Ólafsdóttir, Director of Democratic citizenship and Participation The seminar in the larger perspective of the Language Policy Unit’s programme – Francis Goullier Introducing relevant ECML projects – Susanna Slivensky Introduction to the seminar – David Little
10.00–11.00	Focus on the learner: Language development & Language learning in multilingual settings – Joana Duarte and Ingrid Gogolin
11.00–11.30	Coffee break
11.30–13.00	Discussion groups
13.00–14.30	Cold Lunch (provided) Presentations of local / regional / national projects L. Nissilä (Finland)- D. Janssen (Belgium – French Community)
14.30–15.00	Plenary feedback from discussion groups
15.00–16.30	Developing ‘academic language’ from primary to secondary education - Koen van Gorp, Eike Thürmann and Bronagh Finnegan-Catibusicn
16.30-16.50	Coffee break
16.50–18.00	Discussion groups


Thursday 8 March 2012
09.00–09.30	Plenary feedback from discussion groups
09.30–10.30	Linguistic diversity as a resource for learning / knowledge construction: Nathalie Auger and Piet Van Avermaet
10.30–11.00	Coffee break
11.00–12.30	Discussion groups
12.30–14.00	Lunch
14.00–14.30	Feedback from discussion groups
14.30–15.30	Closing session: · Rapporteur’s summing up: par David Little · Round table feedback from providers of input and feedback from participants ; · Next steps: Johanna Panthier, Head of Section, Language Policy Unit