Colloquium: Dynamic Language and Content Collaboration in Higher Education: theory, research, reflections.
This colloquium, a collaborative venture between Cape Peninsula Technical University, Cape Town, South Africa, and Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden, is part of a South Africa/Sweden research cooperation programme entitled ‘Creating effective partnerships between content and language teachers to enhance higher education learning in multilingual contexts’. The colloquium focuses on four sub-themes: 1) theorising collaboration between language and content practitioners; 2) exploring research findings on ICL collaboration; 3) debating/discussing research methodologies for ICL research; and 4) reflecting on collaborative ICL practices.
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Jan 17, 2011 09:00 AM
to Jan 18, 2011 05:00 PM |
| Where | Cape Town, South Africa |
| Contact Name | Cecilia Jacobs |
| Contact Phone | +27 21 9596437 or +27 822020678 |
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This event is part of a South Africa/Sweden research cooperation programme entitled ‘Creating effective partnerships between content and language teachers to enhance higher education learning in multilingual contexts’. The programme, funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) and the National Research Foundation of South Africa (NRF), is intended to support international research collaboration between the Cape Peninsula University of Technology in South Africa and Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden.
The purpose of the colloquium is to enhance ways of understanding of Content and Language Integration (ICL) – also known in Europe as Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) – through the exchange of knowledge and experience regarding collaboration between content (discipline-based) and language (communication/academic literacy) lecturers in higher education contexts.
While there are many factors that influence ICL practice, previous research has indicated that strong partnerships between content and language lecturers, students, as well as industry, can enhance teaching and learning in the increasingly multilingual contexts of higher education. Collaboration in ICL is therefore the focus of this colloquium. In the interests of further understanding this phenomenon and its potential impact on higher education practice, the colloquium intends to bring together discipline-based and language/communication specialists, with broad experiences of ICL collaboration, to share their knowledge and experience across the following
four sub-themes:1) theorising collaboration between language and content practitioners;
2) exploring research findings on ICL collaboration;
3) debating/discussing research methodologies for ICL research; and
4) reflecting on collaborative ICL practices.
Key note speaker: Mike Baynham
Respondent: Paul Trowler
A second colloquium will be hosted by Chalmers University in Sweden in 2012.
