CercleS Seminar: Workshop on CEF

Title
Target group
Aim of the workshop
Important information
Programme
Call for papers
Registration

Title

Common European Framework in European Universities

Target group

Language Centres

Aim of the workshop

To discuss how CEF is being applied in various European universities with special emphasis on problem areas like LSP. Questions about the Workshop can be addressed to Eija Ådjers (Eija.Adjers@helsinki.fi).

Important information

In order to attend the pre-conference Workshop on CEF you will need to arrive in Helsinki on Wednesday afternoon, 31st August. The Workshop will take place on 31st August (afternoon) and 1st September (morning). The opening ceremony of the BMU conference (Bi- and Multilingual Universities) begins on 1st September after lunch at 1:00 p.m. NB. All the conference sites including the hotels are in the city centre close to each other (some 200 metres’ distance).

Programme (updated 29 August)

The site of the Workshop: Language Centre, Fabianinkatu 26, lecture room 1

Wednesday, 31st August 15.00 - 19.00

Please arrive by 14.45 at the latest for nametags, program etc.

15.00 Welcoming remarks by Prof. Pirkko Forsman Svensson, Director of HULC

15.15 Tuija Nikko, Helsinki School of Economics: CEF as a Tool for Evaluating Foreign Language Communication Skills at Finnish Universities

15.30 Ullamaija Fiilin & Leenamaija Åberg-Reinke (HULC): Requirements on the Second National Language in University Degrees

15.45 Anu Virkkunen-Fullenwider & Tom Toepfer (HULC): Introduction of CEF as a Tool of Evaluation and Training of Teachers in Its Use

16.00 QUESTIONS & COMMENTS

16.15 Carol Taylor, President of CercleS (Padua): CercleS and the Common European Framework

16.30 Mary Ruane & Véronique Gauthier (Dublin): Integrating the ELP Biography and PBL: Outline of a Pilot Project

Posters
Céline Davesne: Abstract
Ullamaija Fiilin & Lis Auvinen

16.45 REFRESHMENTS

(Quick tour of Aleksandria Learning Centre)

17.20 Johann Fischer, Secretary General of CercleS (Tübingen): Case Studies in University Language Teaching

17.40 Michel Petit (Université Bordeaux 2): On the Relevance of CEF Specifications for ESP Teaching and Learning

18.00 Joyce Kling (Copenhagen Business School): Application of CEF Criteria for Evaluating Foreign Language Communication in Management

18.20 Diane Pilkinton-Pihko (Helsinki University of Technology): Mapping the Scores from a Custom-designed ESP Test onto the CEF Scale

18.30 QUESTIONS & COMMENTS

(Quick tour of Aleksandria Learning Centre 2)

19.00-21.00 Get-Acquainted Session (cold buffet)

Thursday, 1st September 9.00 - 11.30

9.00 Monica Bouman, (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven): Postgraduate Writing Courses and CEF

9.20 Mick Sumbling (School of Modern Languages, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) with co-presenter Joan Melcion: SIMTEST: A Foreign Language Proficiency CAT

9.40 COMMENTS

10.00 - 11.30 "Roundtable talks" (= survey of the CEF situation at different universities). The presenters of the workshop as well as the CercleS Executive will be required to give a short (5 minutes) overview of the CEF situation in their countries; the CEF Committee of HULC has formulated four questions that will help our colleagues in giving the overview. The short "situation descriptions" will be followed by general commentary and discussion.

11.30 Closing remarks by the CEF Committee of HULC

11.30- Time for lunch. Registration for the Bi- and Multilingual Conference is open from 9.00 to 17.00. Location: Main Building, Aleksanterinkatu 5.

13.00 Opening of the BMU Conference (Main Building, Ceremonial Hall)

Friday 2nd September

11.00 CercleS Coordinating Committee meeting (University Senate Room, University Main Building, Fabianinkatu 33, 2nd floor)

Call for papers

The Finnish LCs will contribute to the programme and of course we expect our CercleS colleagues to submit papers. Since the CEF Workshop and the BMU Conference are linked together you can submit papers for either one or the other. Please state your preference when submitting your paper (CEF vs. BMU). We call for papers on the state of art situation of languages taught at the LCs, as well as the future prospective of language studies within the LC concept, in other words, we call for a European hands-on workshop. The length of papers should be either 10 or 20 minutes so that the duration of one paper, including discussion, will be 15 or 30 minutes.

Registration

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