Preliminary program

September 18th, 2019

Welcome Reception in the Old Town Hall in Innsbruck

18:00 – 19:30 Opening remarks by Regional Minister Elisabeth Mayr and refreshments

19:30 Transfer to the conference venue in Obergurgl by shuttle service

September 19th, 2019

Conference Center in Obergurgl

8:45 – 9:10

Welcome by Prof. Ulrike Jessner, Conference Organiser (University of Innsbruck)

9:10 - 10:10 Keynote Talk 1 Prof. Ellen Bialystok (York University, Toronto, Canada)
Metacognition: Where language and thought converge.

10:10-10:30

Coffee break

Panel 1

10:30-11:00	Judit Navracsics(University of Pannonia, Hungary) Same input – different development
11:00-11:30	Ulrike Jessner (University of Innsbruck, Austria) Definitions as indicators of metacognition in multilingual children
11:30-12:00	Kerstin Mayr-Keiler (Pedagogical University Tyrol, Innsbruck, Austria) Language Experience lies on a Continuum: On Linguistic and Cognitive Functioning of Multilinguals
12:00-12:30	Philip Herdina (University of Innsbruck, Austria) Memory, metacognition and metalinguistic awareness
12:30-14:00	Lunch break

14:00-15:00 Keynote Talk 2 Prof. Susan Coetzee-Van Rooy (New University, South Africa)
Language awareness from the grassroots: Experiences of multilingual South African urban
youth

Panel 2

15:20-15:50	Ana Lúcia Somones Borges Fonseca (Federal University of Sergipe, Brazil) The imposition of English as language policy: an impossibility to pave a way to multilingual awareness
15:50-16:20	Juliana Pereira Souto Barreto (Federal University of Sergipe - UFS, Brazil) In search of definitions for bilingualism: a mapping of application spaces of the English language in the city of Natal
18:00-20:00	Conference Dinner

September 20th, 2019

9:00 - 10:00 Keynote Talk 3 Prof. Alexander Arguelles (Concordia College, Minnesota, USA)
The metacognitive strategies of polyglots: reflection from start to finish

10:00-10:30 Coffee break

Panel 3

10:30-11:00	Claudia Pellegrini (University of Innsbruck, Austria) Multilingual awareness in polyglots from a DSCT perspective
11:00-11:30	Martina Irsara (Free university of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy) Multilingual awareness in an L4-L1-L4 translation setting: perspective-taking and language specific phenomena
11:30-12:00	Manon Megens (University of Innsbruck, Austria) Cross-linguistic awareness in multilingual young adult learners: Multilingual awareness in action!
12:00-12:30	Maria Teresa Wlosowicz (WSB University, Poland) Metalinguistic awareness in multilinguals as exemplified by Polish (L1) students’ perception of the similarities and differences between related languages
12:30-14:00	Lunch break

14:00-15:00 Keynote Talk 4 Prof. Carol Griffiths (University of Leeds, UK)
What is successful language learning?

15:00-15:20 Coffee break

Panel 4

15:20-15:50	Violetta Dmitrenko (Department of Education of the Government of Navarra, Spain) Metacognitive strategies of multilingual adult learners
15:50-16:20	Ferat Dolas (University of Istanbul, Turkey) Relationship between working memory, metalinguistic awareness and linguistic giftedness through dynamic model of multilingualism
16:20-16:50	Darin Nshiwi (University of Pannonia, Hungary) The impact of metalinguistic awareness and foreign languages’ knowledge on learning German by adult learners in Syria
16:50-17:20	Emese Malzer-Papp (University of Innsbruck, Austria) Multilingual approaches to German teaching in adult education
19:00-21:00	Dinner

September 21st, 2019

Panel 5

9:00:-9:30	Barbara Hofer & Gisela Mayr (University of Bolzano, Italy) Multilingual awareness
9:30-10:00	Raes Calafato (University of Bergen, Norway) Teachers’ multilinguality, language awareness and metalinguistic practices in the classroom
10:00-10:30	Elisabeth Allgäuer-Hackl (Universtity of Innsbruck, Austria) Emerging multilingual awareness in language learners through instructed learning and multiple language use
10:30-11:00	Birgit Spechtenhauser (University of Bolzano, Italy) Many languages- one mind: Trilingual assessment of multilingual awareness from a psycholinguistic perspective
11:00-11:30	Conference Closing

11:30-12:30	Farewell Buffet

13:00 Departure by shuttles to Innsbruck