Provisional schedule - day 1

Thursday 20 August
9:00-9:30	Opening remarks Egle Mocciaro (Masarykova Univerzita, LESLLA past president) Kaatje Dalderop (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; LESLLA President)
Morning session
	Session 1	Session 2
9:30-10:00	Bart Siekman, Sybren Spit, Josje Verhagen & Sible Andringa Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam The Name Game: Measuring metalinguistic awareness in LESLLA learners	Manuela Pinto, Darin Nshiwi, Ali Işık & Birgen Işık Universiteit Utrecht A Dream Too Far: Dutch Learning Needs of Asylum Seekers and Current Dutch Learning Policy and Practices at the Asylum Seeker Center
10:00-10:30	Fatima Zahra El Balrhi Université Hassan II de Casablanca L3 Arabic Stress by Wolof Migrants in Morocco	Katharina Obens, Ioanna Liakou & David Zimmermann Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin A Participatory Design-Based Research Approach to the Professionalisation of Inclusive Language Education for Adult Refugees with Learning Difficulties
10:30-11:00	Coffee break
11:00-11:30	Lotta Aunio Helsingin Yliopisto Language learning without literacy?	Kathrin Drews & Ina-Maria Maahs Mercator-Institut für Mehrsprachigkeit und sprachliche Bildung, Universität zu Köln From needs analysis to module design: Digital teacher training for the literacy of multilingual learners with limited and/or interrupted schooling
11:30-12:00	Friederike Lüpke Helsingin Yliopisto Lead language writing as an adaptive infrastructure for multilingual literacy development	*Matilde Grünhage-Monetti, Silvia Miglio, Olessia Götzinger°* * Language for Work, European Cente of Modern Languages, Council of Europe; °Bildungszentrum Oberjosbach Empowering L2 practitioners and labor market actors to support work-related language and literacy development by adult migrants
12:00-12:30	Sybren Spit, Sible Andringa, Judith Rispens Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam Word learning in emergent readers: to what extent does written input help?
12:30-14:30	Lunch

	Panel session Ginger Kosobucki - Immigrant Welcome Center, Indianapolis What is fair assessment for LESLLA learners?	Session 1	Session 2	Session 3
Afternoon session
14:30-15:00		*Anna Mendoza, Elif Varlik* & Eda Yildirimer°** University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; °University of Arizona Akogare (English Learning as Leisure and Desire) in Adult Community English Classes in the US Midwest	Brian Hibbs Dalton State College Advancing Pre-Service ESOL Teachers’ Beliefs Concerning Social Justice and Advocacy through Translanguaging
15:00-16:30		Erika Husby University of Massachusetts, Boston, and the Rohingya Culture Center U.S. Citizenship: The Gap between Policy and Lived Reality	Catherine Maynard, Véronique Fortier, Suzie Beaulieu° & Valérie Amireault* *Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada; °Université Laval, Canada LESLLA teachers’ relationship to reading and writing in adult French L2 literacy classrooms	Vincent Bédard Université du Québec à Montréal Beyond Deficit Lens: Making Visible LESLLA Learners’ Second Language Use Practices
16:30-17:00		Elif Varlik University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaig Building Critical Multilingual Awareness through Collaborative Online Study Sessions: A Multiple Case Study of LESLLA Teachers	Melissa Hauber-Özer & Kelly Leavitt University of Missouri, Columbia Digital Storytelling as Critical Multiliteracies Pedagogy	Eda Yildirimer University of Arizona MA TESOL Student Teachers’ Preparation, Challenges, and Growth in Community Based Teaching with Afghan Refugee Women
17:00-17:30		Marie Fontaine Assist Community Services Centre, Edmonton, Alberta Finding Meaning Through Drawing: Art-Based Task Assessment for Literacy and Plurilingual Learners	Victoria Lyasota ASSIST Community Services Integrating Multicultural Art into a Literacy Classroom	Marilyn L. Abbott & Kent K. Lee University of Alberta Shared Metacognition in a LESLLA Teacher Journal Club
Keynote Speech
17:00–18:00	Martha Young-Sholten (Newcastle University, Seattle University) Ineke van de Craats and Heidi Wrigley and the studies that created LESLLA.