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TramE Network Launch and Workshop

 

09.00

Registration

O’ Rahilly Building – Block A – first floor – social area

09.45

Welcome and opening comments: O’Rahilly Building - Room 1.23

10.00

Panel 1 Language Engagement and the Student Experience

Chair: Barbara Siller – University College Cork

 

10.00

Siobhan Mortell – University College Cork

Human Portals – Maximising Learning Affordances during Study Abroad

10.15

Catherine Spencer – Technological University of Dublin

Student Perspectives on Mobility Experiences: Reflections, Attitudes & Variables

10.30

Dangeni Dangeni – University of Newcastle (online)

Audio Diary: a creative research tool for investigating international students’

experience

10.45

SHORT BREAK

11.00

Panel 2 Language Learning and Use

Chair: Clare Wright – University of Leeds

 

11.00

Zeynep Köylü – University of Basel

The Nexus among Individual Differences, Cultural Proximity, and Gains: Turkish Sojourners in Europe

 

11.15

Clara Cantos Delgado - Complutense University of Madrid

“The Erasmus was great but the Secret Chilean Sessions was best” A case study of community building of visiting students through the belonging to a recreational volleyball group at KU Leuven

 

11.30

Rongrong Guo – University College Cork

The Development of Oral Performance during Study Abroad: A Semi-Longitudinal Study on English-Speaking Adult L2 Learners of Chinese in Ireland

12.00

LUNCH BREAK

13.00

KEYNOTE TALK

Carmen Pérez Vidal - University Pompeu Fabra

SA research: what does it tell us about SLA?

Chair: Anne Marie Devlin – University College Cork

 

We were honoured to be joined by Professor Carmen Perez Vidal whose impressive and informative plenary talk covering the context and implications of study abroad research for contemporary SLA opened up the wealth of her contribution to the field over decades of research leadership and collaborations. You can find a link to a recording of her talk here.

 

14.00

SHORT BREAK

 

14.10

Early Career Researchers Pecha Kucha presentations

 

Discussant: Aisling O’Donnell – UCC

Room 1.23

Discussant: Clare Wright – University of Leeds

ROOM 1.32

 

Yuyao Xiao - University College Cork

Diversity in identity, environment, and social networks among Chinese study abroad students

Jordan Carolan - University College Cork

Bridging ontological divides: A social-psychological inquiry of study abroad students from Confucian heritage cultures

 

Rana Hassan A Alhazmi – University College Cork

The Impact of the Pandemic on Language Engagement: A Return to Pre-Pandemic Norms?

Jasrael Stokes - University of Bristol

How Does Interlocutor Behaviour Impact International Students’ Foreign Language Anxiety?

 

Natasha Ryzhova – University College Cork

Language Engagement among Displaced Ukrainians in Ireland

Annarita Magliacane - University of Liverpool & Ariadna Sanchez Hernandez - Complutense University of Madrid

Do students develop pragmatic and metapragmatic awareness during study abroad?

14.50

COFFEE BREAK

15.10

Panel 3 (Re)defining Mobility

Chair: Emma Riordan – University College Cork

 

15.10                               

Paolo Ruspini – University of Rome 3 (online)

Contrasting trends of contemporary international migration and mobility

 

15.25

Nidhi Piplani-Kapur – South East Technological University, Waterford Campus (online)

Redefining internationalisation in Ireland through Internationalisation at Home

 

15.40

Rachel MagShamhráin – University College Cork

Don’t Go: Language Learning Abroad and Environmental Collapse

16.00

ROUND TABLE

Chairs: Anne Marie Devlin, Annarita Magliacane, Clare Wright

 

16.30

END OF THE WORKSHOP AND LIGHT REFRESHMENTS

 

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