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3rd e-Expert Seminar Series in Translation and Language Teaching

04 December 2019, 12:45 pm–6:30 pm

Seminar Series in Translation and Language Teaching: “Mediation and Cultural Understanding in the Language Classroom”

This event is free.

Event Information

Open to

All

Availability

Yes

Cost

Free

Organiser

Alejandro Bolaños García-Escribano, Marga Navarrete snd Mazal Oaknín

Dear colleagues and students,
You are warmly invited to our 3rd e-Expert Seminar Series in Translation and Language Teaching: “Mediation and Cultural Understanding in the Language Classroom”, which will take place on Wednesday 4th December, from 12.45 to 6.30 pm, at UCL. See programme attached below.
This seminar is free of charge and centres on language learning and translation education research with an emphasis on real experiences in the foreign language classroom. It will also be broadcast live from UCL. 

  • To attend ONLINE, please book a free e-ticket using Eventbrite here.
  • To attend IN PERSON (max. 35 places, lunch and coffee will be provided), please register using Google Forms here

Once you have registered, please await further instructions; we will send you access details in due course.

Thank you in advance. We look forward to seeing you all there.

Location

SEMINAR PROGRAMME/PROGRAMA DEL SEMINARIO

Wednesday 4th December 2019 / Miércoles 4 de diciembre de 2019

*All times are GMT (UK time) / Todos los horarios están en GMT (hora del Reino Unido) Time/Hora

12.45–13.45

Welcome Lunch at UCL/Bienvenida y almuerzo en UCL

13.45–14.00

Online Welcome/Bienvenida virtual

Mazal OAKNÍN (University College London)

Azahara VEROZ GONZÁLEZ (Universidad de Córdoba)

14.00–14.30

Cultural awareness and intercultural competence for language professionals in a rapidly changing demographic landscape: The case of Malta

Sergio PORTELLI (University of Malta)

14.40–15.10

Towards a principled approach to the teaching of cultural understanding in the language classroom

Irene MACÍAS (University of Bath)

15.10–15.50

BREAK/PAUSA

15.50–16.20

La competencia mediadora y sus potencialidades pedagógicas: ¿cómo puede contribuir la mediación lingüística al proceso de aprendizaje lingüístico?

Giuseppe TROVATO (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia)

16.30–17.00

La incorporación de la mediación lingüística a la enseñanza de lenguas: el ejemplo de las Escuelas Oficiales de Idiomas en España

Adolfo SÁNCHEZ CUADRADO (Universidad de Granada)

17.00–17.30

BREAK/PAUSA

17.30–18.30

Round table/Mesa redonda:

Future directions of mediation as a multimodal resource for language teaching

Susana LORENZO-ZAMORANO (University of Manchester)

Marga NAVARRETE (University College London)

Adolfo SÁNCHEZ CUADRADO (Universidad de Granada)

Giuseppe TROVATO (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia)