The ECSPM professional development forum on linguistic mediation was held on 4 & 5 February 2025.
The event was hosted and and co-organised by the Faculty of Linguistics of the National Technical University of Ukraine (NTUK), known as “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”.
The speakers were online, while the participants – university professors and language instructors, as well as a small number of postgraduate students from NTUK and other Ukrainan HEIs – were both onsite and online. The Forum was also attended by a limited number of language education experts from other European countries.
Here is the link to the forum flyer, containing a brief introduction to the topic, information about the organisers, speakers, and discussion coordinators, as well as the programme. The speakers’ presentations are below, as PDFs. Simply click on the title.
- Using and learning languages in a complex world: focus on mediation
By Enrica Piccardo
- Learners’ Perspectives on Mediation-based Language Education
By Giacomo Folinazzo
- Developing mediation skills at university language centres
By Johann Fischer
- Linguistic mediation for students in Engineering & Architecture
By Maria Stathopoulou
- How and why university students linguistically mediate with each other
By Bessie Dendrinos