Spring Coffee Break March 23
LESLLA invites you to the bilingual, online Spring Coffee Break on March 23, 2023 with Lorenzo Rocca.
Lorenzo Rocca will talk about:
Assessing Low Literate Migrants within the Learning Environment:
The LAMI-LASLLIAM Assessment Tools (LLAT)
The Coffee Break will be bilingual and will be divided into two parts:
18.00 - 19.00 CET an explanation in English on the design of the LLAT.
19.00 - 20.00 CET a presentation in Italian on the elaboration of the LLAT for this language.
You are welcome to attend both sessions. It is also possible to attend the English session only.
Please register here.
Lorenzo Rocca is the chair of the ALTE Special Interest Group Language Assessment for Migrants' Integration (LAMI-SIG). The LAMI-LASLLIAM Assessment Tools (LLAT) are embedded in LASLLIAM and include 4 tools, delivered by LAMI-SIG.
Lorenzo Rocca will explain how LASLLIAM served as framework for the design of the LATT, focusing on 3 aspects:
The concept of profiles in the ‘recognition of partial competences’ (CEFR, 2001: 175).
The formative value of the proposed assessment, highlighting that LLAT are not intended to fix any cut-off point.
The data related to the qualitative validation phase.
The LLAT have been worked out in multiple languages.
About Lorenzo Rocca
Lorenzo Rocca is responsible of the language projects department at the Società Dante Alighieri in Rome. Engaged in test development and teacher training for over 20 years, his research interest is focused on the migration context; within this focus Lorenzo is the chair of the ALTE LAMI SIG since 2008 and is a member of the Council of Europe LIAM project since 2014. In 2020 he was awarded with the national scientific qualification as Associate Professor.
About LASLLIAM
LASLLIAM is the new European reference guide on Literacy and Second Language Learning for the Linguistic Integration of Adult Migrants.
LASLLIAM was developed by a group of LESLLA experts and the Council of Europe Education Department to support high-quality learning environments for non- and low-literate migrants.
LASLLIAM is linked to the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) for Languages. It provides Can-do descriptors at levels below and up to A1 as well as extensive recommendations on how to use these to encourage/assist learner emancipation and learner development.
With this guide, the authoring group intends to contribute to enhancing language-learning opportunities for non- and low-literate adult migrants by supporting their language educators in designing, implementing, evaluating and improving curricula and teaching materials tailored toward the specific needs of the learners.
Language skills foster, among others, social inclusion, and access to education and employment. Within this context, non-literate or low-literate migrants have specific educational needs, as they must learn a second language while either learning to read and write for the first time or developing basic literacy competences in an alphabet or writing system sometimes different from the one they will have learned initially.
When it comes to language or knowledge of society courses, these needs are rarely taken into consideration, and this group of migrants is rarely offered a sufficient number of hours to reach the language level required. This is why LASLLIAM has been conceived: it aims at supporting language educators, curriculum designers and language policymakers in their endeavour to design, implement, evaluate and improve curricula tailored toward the specific needs of the target learners.
Additional information can be found here.
