Multilingualism in Higher Education

Seminar on Multilingualism in Higher Education and the university sector

A group of researchers from the Multilingual Learning Center at Fudan University in Shanghai is visiting Centre for Internationalisation and Parallel Language Use at University of Copenhagen May 7-8, 2019.

Program May 7

10.00  Welcome (Anne Holmen)
10.05-10.35 Presentation: Fudan University and the Multilingual Learning Center
10.35-11.00 Questions and comments
11:00-11.30  Presentation: University of Copenhagen and Centre for Internationalisation and Parallel Language Use (Anne Holmen)
11.30-11.50 Questions and comments
12.00-13.00 Lunch
13.00-14.00 Language policy in research assessment in Chinese higher education context
14.10-15.10 The (ir)relevance of learning Danish for transnationally mobile employees in Danish academia (Janus Mortensen & Marta Kirilova) 
15.20-16.20  Multilingual workplaces (Kamilla Kraft)

Program May 8

9.00-10.00 EMI policy and implementation in Chinese higher education context (presentation and discussion)
10.10-11.10 English language requirements for EMI lecturers and students within the framework of HEI internationalization (Slobodanka Dimova) 
11.20-12.20 Multilingual foreign language education in East Asian higher education contexts (a comparative study of Chinese, Korean, Japanese universities)
12.20-13.20 Lunch
13.20-14.20 Chinese students' motivation to learn a non-English foreign language: the case of Spanish and Danish
14.30-15.30 Transnational alignment of English competences for university lecturers (Sanne Larsen & Slobodanka Dimova)

The seminar is open to everyone interested
Please register by sending an e-mail to Anne Holmen at aholmen@hum.ku.dk 
Thursday may 5 at latest if you interested in joining us for lunch.

Registered participants:

  • Yongyan Zheng, PhD, Professor of Applied Linguistics (Assistant to the Dean), College of Foreign Languages and Literature, Fudan University
  • Jing Ai, Deputy Director of the Multilingual Learning Center, College of Foreign Languages and Literature, Fudan University
  • Yang Song, PhD, Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics, College of Foreign Languages and Literature, Fudan University
  • Janus Mortensen, associate professor, CIP, University of Copenhagen
  • Marta Kirilova (only the 7th), post doc, Department of Nordic Studies, University of Copenhagen
  • Slobodanka Dimova (only the 8th), associate professor, CIP, University of Copenhagen
  • Sanne Larsen, post doc, CIP, University of Copenhagen
  • Kamilla Kraft, post doc, CIP, University of Copenhagen
  • Anne Holmen, professor, CIP, University of Copenhagen