Workshop 'Getting to know LASLLIAM' by Council of Europe
The Council of Europe is organising an online workshop entitled "Getting to know LASLLIAM". It will take place on Thursday, 1 June 2023 from 16.00 until 18.00 CEST.
Please register here.
In many European countries about 20% of adult migrants are non- or low-literate. To support their integration in the host countries the European Reference guide LASLLIAM (Literacy and Second Language Learning for the Linguistic Integration of Adult Migrants) was developed.
The webinar will consist of two parts. The first part opens with a general introduction of the Reference Guide and the new scales for Technical Literacy, followed by a small group activity in which participants familiarize themselves with descriptors and levels of one of the Technical Literacy scales.
The second part starts with a general overview of the Communicative Language Activity scales, including Language Use Strategies, and the Digital Skills scales. In a second small group activity, participants will work with some of the descriptors of the Digital Skills scales and how they can be used in planning learning activities, illustrated by sample tools already developed.
The working language of the workshop is English.
The LASLLIAM Reference Guide will be presented by its authors: Fernanda Minuz, Jeanne Kurvers, Rola Naeb, Lorenzo Rocca and Karen Schramm.
Fernanda Minuz was Senior Lecturer in Italian Language at the Johns Hopkins University – SAIS Europe (Bologna, Italy). She is a consultant in national and international projects on Italian L2/Foreign Language and Literacy-and-second-language teaching, a field in which she has been active for over 30 years as a researcher, teacher trainer and author. Fernanda Minuz is an expert of the Council of Europa and Vice-President of the LESLLA Association.
Jeanne Kurvers was associate professor at the School of Humanities, Tilburg University (Netherlands). She was one of the founders of the international LESLLA association that aimed at stimulating more research on L2 and literacy acquisition by non- and low-literate migrants. Her main field of research was literacy acquisition in a second language and the impact of literacy on knowledge and processing of language. She is consultant in the field of adult L2 literacy education and civic integration programs and is member of a team that develops teaching and reading materials for non-literate new arrivals.
Rola Naeb is a senior lecturer and the programme leader for the MA in Applied Linguistics and TESOL at Northumbria University. Her main research interests are educational technology and language acquisition by adult migrants. She is currently the vice president of LESLLA (Literacy Education and Second Language Learning for Adults).
Lorenzo Rocca is responsible of the language projects department at the Società Dante Alighieri in Rome. He worked for many years at the University for Foreigners of Perugia engaging in test development and teacher training. 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.
Karen Schramm serves as Professor of German as a Foreign Language at the University of Vienna, Austria. Her research focuses on GFL teacher education, methods of GFL teaching, and qualitative research methods. She has taught at universities in Germany, the Republic of Korea and the U.S., and she has conducted GFL teacher education workshops worldwide. She currently serves as co-editor of the journal Fremdsprachen Lehren und Lernen and the book series Grundlagen Deutsch als Fremd- und Zweitsprache und Studien Deutsch als Fremd- und Zweitsprache.
