Schedule - 21 August

Friday 21 August
9:00-9:15 Opening session
Egle Mocciaro (Masarykova Univerzita; LESLLA past president)
Kaatje Dalderop (LESLLA President) Gabriela Jessome (LESLLA Vice President)
MUNI delegates
Keynote Speech
9:15–10:15 Mari D'Agostino (Università di Palermo)
Altre literacies? Plurilinguismo e nuovi processi migratori attraverso le rotte
Morning session
Session 1 Co-constructed educational attitudes, approaches and pratices Session 2 Additional languages and morphological awareness Session 3 Voices from inside: learners' and teachers' views on languages and literacy Session 4 Tools and resources
10:15-10:45 Véronique Fortier*, Catherine Maynard*, Suzie Beaulieu° & Valérie Amireault*
*Université du Québec à Montréal; °Université Laval
Exploring teaching approaches to support the development of literacy among LESLLA learners through a living library project
Marie-Anne Morand & Claudia Kossinna
Université de Fribourg
Word stress identification by LESLLA learners and second-script learners
Belma Haznedar* & Elifcan Oztekin°
*Boğaziçi Universitesi, Istanbul, °Universidad de Granada
Exploring teacher candidates’ attitudes toward multilingualism in the Turkish context
Enas Filinban
Umm Al-Qura University
AI-mediated Arabic learning for low-Literate adult migrants in Saudi Arabia
10:45-11:15 Clelia Farina
Università di Palermo
Observing competence and performance in talk-in-interaction: notes from an Italian LA course with newly arrived learners
Ann-Kristin Helland Gujord* & Linda Evenstad Emilsen°
*Universitetet i Bergen, °Høgskolen i Østfold
What characterises research on L2 learners with limited prior schooling? 
Carl Laberge
Université Laval
LESLLA learners’ plurilingual development: a funds of knowledge approach to uncover their perspectives
Nadja Kerschhofer-Puhalo
Universität Hamburg
Views in*2 literacies-a multimodal text collection on a participatory web-platform 
11:15-12:15 Poster session with coffee Rebecca Hayes Laughton King's College, London Devising radical grammar: grassroots drama as a pedagogical tool.
Martina Franz dos Santos Phillips University of Marburg. Real literacies in adult second language literacy instruction: an intervention study.
Tsun Yang Chuang *°, Emanuelle Canut°, Morgane Jourdain* *KU Leuven,°Université de Lille. Understending the non-comprehension of instructions among learners with limited schooling: a comparative conversation analysis of French language integration classes.
Lorenzo Albanesi* & Kristýna Lorenzová* *Masarykova Univerzita. If you are waiting for literacy and input: do analytic constructions emerge?
12:15-13:15 Lunch
Afternoon session
13:15–13:45 Adult migrants learning literacy in a new language: book launch and raffle (De Gruyter, 2026)
Christine Czinglar* & Karen Schramm^ *Universität Jena, ^Universität Wien
13:45–15:00 General assembly
15:00–15:30 Coffee break
Workshop 1 Workshop 2 Workshop 3 Workshop 4
15:30-17:30 Janet Isserlis* & Patsy Egan°
*Brown University; °Hamline University
Lifelong learning practitioners celebrate the work of Heide Wrigley in the best way we know how.
In presence and remotely.
No need for pre-registration.
Cecilia Bartoli* & Kristýna Lorenzová°
*Asinitas, Roma & Università di Palermo; °Masarykova Univerzita
Representing the multilingual self: multimodal practices for linguistic autobiography in migration contexts.
Only in presence.
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Davide Schirò
Università di Palermo
Using picturebooks in plurilingual contexts: potentialities and risks.
Only in presence.
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Kaatje Dalderop* & Annemarie Nuwenhoud°
*Independent researcher; °Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
Research based practice, practice based research bridging the gap
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17:30 Walk to venue of social dinner through Brno city centre with Daniel Vázquez Touriño
Social dinner at Jakoby