CIP SYMPOSIUM 2016

Academic Reading in a foreign language - skills and strategies

CIP invites you to the annual symposium Tuesday 27 September 10:00-16:00.  

This year's focus is academic reading within the disciplines with specific attention to foreign languages.

Programme

9.30-10.00 
Registration and coffee

10.00-10.05 
Welcome
Anne Holmen, director, CIP, UCPH

10.05-11.05  Academic Reading Expectations and Challenges Neil Anderson, Professor, Director, Center for English Language Learning, Brigham Young University-Hawaii Read abstract

11.15-12.15  Recruiting and retaining student researchers in the medical sciences – the role of improving reading strategies Simon Francis Thomsen, Professor, dr.med., Department of Biomedical Sciences, UCPH Read abstract

12.15-13.00 Lunch Sandwiches and drinks will be served

13.00-14.00     Reading Strategies in EMI: Student and Teacher Perspectives at UCPH Sophie Swerts Knudsen, CIP, UCPH Read abstract

14.00-14.15 
Closing remarks on presentations
Anne Holmen, director, CIP, UCPH

14.15-14.45  Coffe break

14.45-16.00  
Workshops: "Reading within the disciplines – why and how?"
The workshops will be conducted in Danish only with the reading of texts in either German or French.

Reading in French
Lisbeth Verstraete-Hansen, Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies, UCPH

Reading in German
Petra Daryai-Hansen, Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies, UCPH

Programme for the CIP Symposium 2016