Attended the LLRC 2023 conference: curriculum and course design for language teaching

Posted on 27th June 20231st July 2023 by Koen

On June 23rd, 2023, The Leiden University Language Learning Resource Centre (LLRC) organized its annual one-day conference , this year on curriculum change, also because in Dutch secondary education a curriculum reform is planned to be implemented in the next years, also concerning foreign languages. Find the programme and abstracts here. Dr. Marjon Tammenga-Helmantel, who works Read more about Attended the LLRC 2023 conference: curriculum and course design for language teaching[…]

Final Event VirtuLApp Project

Posted on 18th November 20214th February 2022 by Koen

The Virtual Language App Project, in short VirtuLApp, is a European funded project with partners in Basque Country, Ireland and Belgium which develops an innovative multilingual and multididactic approach which teachers can use in the classroom to welcome pupils’ home languages. The VirtuLApp project’s final multiplier event, hosted by Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism Read more about Final Event VirtuLApp Project[…]

TELLConsult in Krakow for project Meeting of EU project CATAPULT AND PL-CALL Conference

Posted on 16th June 201916th November 2020 by Koen

The 2nd meeting of the EU project CATAPULT was kindly hosted by its partner, The Pedagogical University, in Krakow, Poland. Preceded by 2 training days for academic staff on the teaching of languages for specific purposes, the consortium meeting took place on Wednesday May 29. One of items on the agenda was the presentation to Read more about TELLConsult in Krakow for project Meeting of EU project CATAPULT AND PL-CALL Conference[…]

MALL SIG symposium CALLmi @ Milan great success

Posted on 13th June 201916th November 2020 by Koen

As newly appointed members of the EUROCALL MALL-SIG we, Bruce Lander (chair), Valentina Morgana (secretary) and myself (co-chair) decided to organise two activities in 2019: a symposium on Mobile Assisted Language Learning ( MALL) in May and a SIG Meeting / Teachmeet event at this year’s conference of the Eurocall Association in August. Valentina managed Read more about MALL SIG symposium CALLmi @ Milan great success[…]

Latest newsletter from NUT, association of NL & BE University language centres

Posted on 13th April 201913th April 2019 by Koen

Passing on a selected newsitem from the latest newsletter of the Belgian & Dutch Association of academic Language centres ‘NUT’ with a focus on its Jubilee conference in Antwerp. On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the NUT, the NUT anniversary conference “Power and splendour of language” took place in Antwerp on 5 April Read more about Latest newsletter from NUT, association of NL & BE University language centres[…]

Conference on Language Learning and Technology

Posted on 8th April 20198th April 2019 by Koen

In collaboration with the KIOS Research and Innovation Centre of Excellence and the Language Centre at the University of Cyprus, the ErasmusPlus project ReDesign is organising a conference and workshop on Language Learning and Technology at the University of Cyprus on June 05, 2019. The theme of the conference is “The Implementation of Technology in Read more about Conference on Language Learning and Technology[…]

TELLConsult to contribute to Symposium on Mobile-Assisted Language Learning in Milan

Posted on 30th December 201824th January 2019 by Koen

TELLConsult senior consultant Ton Koenraad, co-chair of the EUROCALL Mobile-Assisted Language Learning Special Interest Group, will be contributing to the organisation, promotion and programme of the 2019 SIG event ‘CALLmi‘ in Milan. Find an excerpt from the CfP here: CALL FOR PAPERS CALLmi: Where are we going? Current and future trends in MALL and CALL Read more about TELLConsult to contribute to Symposium on Mobile-Assisted Language Learning in Milan[…]

TELLConsult contributed OER to conference on big data in language & CLIL classes

Posted on 30th September 201820th October 2018 by Koen

We attended and enjoyed the International conference ‘Data-Driven Learning (DDL): a scaffolding methodology for Foreign languages and #CLIL classes’ in Turin, 27-28 September 2018 https://ddlfl.weebly.com/ The event was intended to provide a bridge between researchers and school teachers. This resulted in a nice mix of interesting academic and practice-based papers & workshops, including e.g. the Read more about TELLConsult contributed OER to conference on big data in language & CLIL classes[…]

Open access to our EUROCALL 2018 workshop materials on mobile learning in teacher education

Posted on 25th August 201829th August 2018 by Koen

This year’s edition of the annual EUROCALL conference took place in Jyväskylä, Finland. Delegates appreciated the excellent (1) organisation of this 4-day event and the great facilities at the University of Jyväskylä, beautifully located at a lake. TELLConsult, represented by Ton Koenraad, offered the workshop ‘ Models, strategies and resources produced in EU projects for m-learning pedagogy development and Read more about Open access to our EUROCALL 2018 workshop materials on mobile learning in teacher education[…]

TELLConsult to contribute a workshop to the International conference Data-Driven Learning & Foreign languages and CLIL classes

Posted on 22nd June 201822nd June 2018 by Koen

TELLConsult will contribute a workshop on corpus-based learning materials production for CLIL & LSP to the International #conference “Data-Driven Learning: a scaffolding methodology for Foreign languages and CLIL classes”. Based on the e-CLIL components of (one of) our courses on the topic the workshop aims to familiarize delegates with open educational, corpus-based resources, tools and related Read more about TELLConsult to contribute a workshop to the International conference Data-Driven Learning & Foreign languages and CLIL classes[…]