Colloque - Language diversity management : A focus on educational settings and the role of new signers and speakers

08:45 – 09:00

Registration and coffee

09:00 – 09:10

Laurence Meurant (FRS-FNRS & UNamur)

Opening address and practical arrangements

SESSION 1 (CHAIR: LAURENCE MEURANT)

09:10 – 09:50

Maartje De Meulder (UNamur)

Innovations in Deaf Studies: The role of deaf scholars

09:50 – 10:30

Susan Lombaard & Elrie Du Toit (Universiteit van die Vrystaat)

Deaf education in South Africa – Inclusion or exclusion?

10:30 – 10:50

Coffee break

10:50 – 11:30

Bruno Sonnemans (Ecole et Surdité & UNamur)

French Belgian Sign Language (LSFB): Transmission, standardization and contact from the point of view of a of a native signer, teacher and lexicographer

11:30 – 12:10

Maartje De Meulder (UNamur)

So why do you sign? ‘New signers’ and the vitality of sign language communities

12:10 – 13:10

Lunch

SESSION 2 (CHAIR: COLLEEN DU PLESSIS)

13:10 – 13:50

Laurence Meurant (FRS-FNRS & UNamur), Magaly Ghesquière (Ecole et Surdité & UNamur) & Jeroen Darquennes (UNamur)

Heterogeneous learner profiles in the bilingual (LSFB-French) programme at St Marie: from theory to practice and back again

13:50 – 14:30

Luk Van Mensel (UNamur & KULeuven)

Assessing CLIL in French-speaking Belgium

14:30 – 15:10

Fauve De Backer (UGent)

Multilingual Assessment in Education (MulAE): Exploring the potential of alternative assessment designs for multilingual children in primary education

15:10 – 15:30

Coffee break

SESSION 3 (CHAIR: JEROEN DARQUENNES)

15:30 – 16:10

Theo Du Plessis (Universiteit van die Vrystaat)

Multilingualism and language policy in higher education in South Africa

16:10 – 16:50

Charles Van Leeuwen (Maastricht University)

Major challenges in English-medium higher education: Assessment, expectation management and the hidden language potential

16:50 – 17:00

Jeroen Darquennes (UNamur)

Closing of the workshop