Students in Norwegian schools typically study three languages during their educational journey: Norwegian, English and a foreign language of choice.
- What kinds of interactions can be found in the way that students write in their three languages?
- How does teacher feedback look across the language subjects?
- Can Norwegian, English and foreign language teachers collaborate to make language learning more effective?
The MULTIWRITE project revolves around such questions.
We have collected texts written in three languages by first-year students at upper secondary schools in various parts of the country, along with teacher comments on these texts. We have also interviewed teachers and worked with them to try out different kinds of cross-curricular collaboration.
At this conference, we present results from the project, while invited speakers share their insights from research on similar topics and contexts.
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Deadline for registration: Monday 3 November.
(Feel free to register even if you cannot attend all of the conference.)
Programme
Thursday, 6 November
Venue: Auditorium 2, Georg Sverdrups hus / Zoom
- 10.00: Opening and short presentation of the MULTIWRITE project
Part 1: Student writing
- 10.15: Connections between languages in Norwegian student writing
(Hildegunn Dirdal, Stine H. Johansen and Phil Durrant) - 11.15: Coffee break
- 11.30: When multilinguals acquire academic language(s): A South Tyrolean view on connective use of young writers (Jennifer-Carmen Frey),
followed by Q-and-A session - 12.30: Break
Part 2: Teacher feedback
- 13.30: Teachers’ feedback on students’ written texts: Aims and main findings from the MULTIWRITE project (Eva Thue Vold and Eli-Marie D. Drange)
- 14.00: Teachers’ provision and students’ comprehension of metalinguistic feedback in the L2 English and L3 Spanish subjects (Mari W. Wesenberg)
- 14.30: Short break
- 14.40: Five teachers’ written feedback practices in German as a foreign language (Arne Elverhaug)
- 14.55: Rethinking feedback in the human–machine era: Multilingual, multimodal, and multivoiced (Fanny Meunier)
- 15.25-15.40: Q-and-A session
Friday, 7 November
Venue: Seminar room 206, Georg Morgenstiernes hus / Zoom
Part 3: Teacher collaboration
- 09.00: Key insights into teacher collaboration across the school’s language subjects (Åsta Haukås and Eli-Marie D. Drange)
- 09.45: Upper secondary school students’ multilingual identities and beliefs about multilingualism (Vanja Carina Delprete)
- 10.00: Coffee break
- 10.15: Language teacher collaboration: Reflecting back and moving forwards (Karen Forbes)
- 10.45: Cross-language collaboration from a school leader’s perspective (Christine Funtek), followed by Q-and-A session
- 11.15-11.45: Final discussion
