ELN Winterthur Conference

From 7 to 9 February 2018 the ELN Conference will will provide all working groups the chance to present their outputs and completed works in the last three years within the COST-Action as well as plan the final year of the Action by discussing the relationships with partners and stakeholders and preparing for the 2018 Literacy Summit. As the first Literacy Summit in November 2018 approaches, it is necessary to accommodate for this large and groundbreaking summit, plan the tasks for the last year of the Action as well as strengthen the relationships with our partners and stakeholders.

Meeting Venue

The meeting took place at the Language Competence Centre.

Wednesday, February 7

09h30 | SG Meeting
10h30 | Coffee Break
11h00 | SG Meeting
13h00 | Lunch Break
14h00 | SG Meeting
15h30 | Coffee Break
16h00 | Ed-Meeting
17h30 | End of Meeting

Thursday, February 8

09h30 | Opening address.
Daniel Perrin, Dean of School of Applied Linguistics, ZHAW
Walter Seiler, Head of Language Competence Center, ZHAW
Rossella Magli, COST Sci
Rui A. Alves, Chair of European Literacy Network
10h30 | Coffee Break
11h00 | WGs in parallel sessions
13h00 | Lunch Break
14h00 | MC Meeting

WGs in parallel sessions
15h30 | Coffee Break

ELN Poster Session
Academic Essay Writing in Romania: Didatic Analysis of Second Year Student Texts Using Corpus Data. Cristina Baniceru & Madalina Chitez, West University of Timisoara

The Role of phonological awareness and rapid automatized naming in the reading acquisition of Turkish-speaking children. Sezen Bektas, Bogazici University
The accelerating Importance of Media Literacy and its Regulation. Andrej Blagojevic, University of Nis
Reading and Spelling Difficulties in Transparent Orthographies: The Case of Greek. Dialechti Chatzoudi & Timothy C. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus
Writing Performance of VET Students. Alex Rickert, Zurich University of Teacher Education
16h00 | MC-Meeting

WGs in parallel sessions
17h30 | End of Meetings
19h00 | Social Dinner

Friday, February 9

09h30 | Greetings. Eva Klaper, Switzerland COST National Coordinator

Keynote: Reading in two languages: Universals and specifics of poor readers. Catherine McBride, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
10h30 | Coffee Break
11h00 |
WG3 Outputs. Digital Writing Support: Innovations in Technology Development and their Impact on our Understanding of Literacy. Kaliopi Benetos, University of Essex, Otto Kruse, ZHAW, & Christian Rapp, ZHAW

WG2 Outputs. Current Trends in the Developmental Aspects of Literacy and Education in a Digital Works: WG2 Research Activities. Mirak Bekar, Saints Cyril and Methodius University & Anita Peti-Stantic, Univwersity of Zagreb
13h00 | Lunch Break
14h00 | 
World Café – Literacy Research in Switzerland. Fostering writing fluency with warming-up exercises. Afra Sturm, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland
Towards a Common European Framework of Reference for Language Teachers. Lukas Bleichenbacher & Christian Sinn, University of Teacher Education, St. Gallen
Common European Framework of Reference for Sign Languages: Development of descriptors for Swiss-German Sign Language. Jörg Keller & Dawei Ni, ZHAW
Integrated Reading and Writing Support in Vocational Education and Training. Joachim Hoefele, Stefan Sigges & Aleksandra Opacic, ZHAW, Pedagogical State Institute of Rhineland-Palatinate
Literacy for Entrepreneurship: Modelling Reading and Writing Skills for Entrepreneurship. Elsa Liste Lamas, Alex Rickert, Brittany Rodriquez, ZHAW
Thesis Writer –  Thesis Writer: A web based learning environment to support thesis writers. Otto Kruse & Christian Rapp, ZHAW
15h15 | Introduction to the Sign Language Linguistics. Dawei Ni
16h00 | WG1 outputs
Closing remarks. Rui Alves