WG2 Meeting #4, Lyon

Keynote Speakers

Christiane Donahue
(Dartmouth College, USA)
Harriet Jisa
(University of Lyon, France)
Kausalai Wijekumar
(Texas A&M University, USA)

Day 1 – November 16

09h00 | Opening of the meeting, organizational issues
09h30 | Powerful reading comprehension results with teacher-led technology integration across the globe. Kay Wijekumar (Texas A&M University)
10h30 | Coffee Break
11h00 | Teamwork in separate groups
13h00 | Lunch Break
14h30 | Linguistic and social diversity and access to higher education: What might a “translingual” perspective offer?. Christiane Donahue (Dartmouth College)
15h30 | Teamwork in separate groups
17h30 | Coffee and discussion

Day 2 – November 17

09h00 | Presentation of the Special Issue on Testing the Effectiveness of Handwriting Interventions. Teresa Limpo (University of Porto)
Supporting first-grade writers who fail to learn: Multiple single-case evaluation of a response to intervention approach. Maria Arrimada, Mark Torrance and Raquel Fidalgo
Impact of handwriting training on fluency, spelling and text quality among third graders. Sibylle Hurschler Lichtsteiner, Werner Wicki and Péter Falmann
Promoting handwriting fluency in fifht graders with slow handwriting: A single-subject design study. Teresa Limpo, Naiana Parente, and Rui A. Alves
10h00 | Digital literacy and the future. Maria José Brites, Aivars Glaznieks and Maria João Couto
10h15 |Multilingual literacy – the state of the art. Esther Breuer (University of Cologne)
10h30 | Coffee Break
11h00 | Teamwork in separate groups
13h00 | Lunch Break
14h30 | Growing into academic French. Harriet Jisa (University of Lyon)
15h30 | Team work in separate groups
17h30 | Coffee and closing words