1. #InnoConf15 – Innovative Language Teaching and Learning at University: Enhancing Participation
and Collaboration
University of Nottingham, 19 June 2015
9.30-10.00 Registration
10.00-10.15 Welcome and introduction byCeciliaGoria,OrannaSpeicherandSaschaStollhans
(conference organisers)andProf JudithStill (Headof the School of Cultures,LanguagesandArea
Studies,Universityof Nottingham)
10.15-11.00 Keynote 1:Prof ZoltánDörnyei (Nottingham): Motivation and thevision of knowing a
second language
11.00-12.00 Parallel sessions1
Dorota Rzycka,MizuhoJones,
JoaquinLopezandMarion
Sadoux (Nottingham, Ningbo):
Overcoming navigational
design in a VLE: Studentsas
agentsof change
AnnaMotzo, Tim Jilg, Anna
Proudfoot(OpenUniversity)
Evaluating theeffectsof a
studentbuddy initiativeon
studentengagementand
motivation.
DavidNoble (SouthernCross,
Australia):
Bridging the gaps:theuse of
technology to prepareand test
studentsforEnglish for
AcademicPurposes(EAP);and
to bridgethe technology gap
between Indian education and
Australian university.
Sandrine Alègre (Bath):
Creating an online diagnostic
test foryear 1 students
Hanna Magedera(Liverpool):
The FourSkills Project
DavidButton,JohnHall
(Nottingham):
Innovationsin assessment:A
mixed methodsapproach to
the standardisationof marking
in EAP courses
12.00-12.15 Coffee break
12.15-13.15 Parallel sessions2
ElinorParks
(Hull/Leeds):
The dichotomy of
languageand content
in US and UK
universities -
Implicationsfor
Criticality and
Intercultural
Competence
InsaHartung (St Andrews)
, Sandra Reisenleutner
(Nottingham)
“Showme whereyou
study!” - An interactive
projectbetween German
languagestudentsin
Nottinghamand St
Andrews
SalimRazı (Canakkale
OnsekizMart,Turkey):
Open and anonymous
peer review in a digital
online environmentin
English asa foreign
languageacademic
writing
DavidBinns
(SANAKO):
Workshop
Technology in
Language
Teaching
Neil Hughes
(Nottingham):
Teaching Cultural
Contentin theTarget
Language
Jörg Seifert(Warwick):
Reflectionson: Google+
CommunityIntercultural
Communication:A virtual
collaboration project
between the
Medienhochschule
RickyLowes
(Plymouth):
Feeding back – feeding
forward?An
exploration of how
assessmenttaskscan
develop self-regulated

2. Stuttgart(Germany) and
the Universityof
Warwick/Language
Centre(UK)
learning in an EAP
course.
13.15-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.00 Parallel sessions3
AlessiaPlutino
(Southampton):
Anything can happen
outthere: an holistic
approach to field trips
FranziskaSchulz-
Badger(Newcastle):
Podcastsin language
teaching
SabrinaWagner
(Manchester):
Would you please mark
my text forme? -
Improving students’
writing and
collaborativeskills with
the help of the Peer
Assessmenttoolon
Blackboard
DavidBinns
(SANAKO):
Workshop
Technology in
Language
Teaching
Fakhredine Brahmi
(Gafsa,Tunisia):
Can wikis or Facebook
hooklearnersinstead of
schoolbook?
Marianna Leikomaa
(Tampere,Finland):
BusinessInformation
SystemsStudentsUsing
English in their Project
Work
Aniade Berg (Sheffield
Hallam):
StudentsasProducers
and Collaborators:
Exploring the Useof
Padletsand Videosin
MFL Teaching
15.00-15.15 Coffee break
15.15-16.15 Parallel sessions4
CathyHampton (Warwick):
Fromwidening horizonsto
widening participation:
transmitting theexperienceof
globalcitizenship to theschool
classroomin a studentas
producerYear Abroad project
FilippoGilardi (Nottingham,
Ningbo),JamesReid(Akita,
Japan):
Transmedia Teaching
Framework:fromgroup
projectsto curriculum
development.
Lan Lo (Nottingham):
The challengesfacing the
Cantonesespeakerson
Mandarin languagelearning
within a mainstreamuniversity
coursein the UK
Sandra López-Rocha(Bristol):
InterculturalCommunicative
Competence:Creating
Awarenessand Promoting
Skills in theLanguage
Classroom
CarmenÁlvarez-Mayo(York):
TANGO,a collaborativee-
learning project:“El tango se
baila a dos”≈ “It takes two to
tango”
KesterNewill (Heriot-Watt,
Edinburgh)
Using Dropbox to Createa
Student-Produced Conference
Interpreting Speech Repository
16.15-17.00 Keynote 2:Dr Jan Hardman (York), Engaging and motivating students(and yourself)
through dialogicpedagogy
17.00 Close