Adult Second Language Literacy

16 Mar 2023, 12:00 → 18 Mar 2023, 13:30 Europe/Berlin

tba (University Main Building (Universitätshauptgebäude))

Christine Czinglar (Institute for German as Foreign and Second Language, Faculty of Humanities, Friedrich Schiller University Jena)

Welcome to our conference site! The ASLL 2023 was held at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany, with presenters, organizers and other people involved onsite in Jena and a wider audience participating online.

Whoever registered as a participant is enabled to access recorded keynotes, corredsponding abstracts and accompanying slides via this Link to the Program (Timetable with Abstracts, Zoom Links and a PDF Program)

Via the menu bar on your left you can find:

• Impressions of the conference (photo gallery) March 16-18, 2023 
• Scientific Program 
• Infopages for Participants and Presenters 

 

The program (March 16, 2023) is also available as a PDF right below on this page below. 

ASLL 2023_Program_160323_FINAL.pdf

ASLL March 2023_Call for Papers.pdf

Büchertisch Fachliteratur des Waxmann Verlags (in German)

Guide_Registration_Indico.pdf

Abstracts of the Workshops (additional registration)

• Abstract FELDMEIER Workshop_Lernberatung im Alphabetisierungsunterricht.pdf
• Workshop Gelingen kontrastiver Alphabetisierung in DaZ-Alphakursen_Christina Noack.pdf
• Workshop Including Literacy Practices in Instructional Practice_Kristen Perry.pdf
• Workshop Vanbuel+Deygers.pdf

Notes for keynote speakers, workshop leads and chairs of session Format, Introduction and Questions for Round Table Discussion.pdf (Protected) Notes for chairs + keynote + workshop speakers END.pdf (Protected)

Thursday 16 March

12:00 → 13:30 Registration for on-site participants

13:30 → 15:00 Keynote: Welcome Remarks and Keynote 1

Convener: Natalia Gagarina (ZAS Berlin)

13:30 Welcome Remarks

Speakers: Karin Küßner (Head of Coordination “Decade for Literacy”, Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training), Prof. Christine Czinglar (Friedrich Schiller University Jena (Germany)), Pia Bergmann (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena)

Video Recording

14:00 KEYNOTE 1: Multilingual Assessment of Print Literacy in Adult Second Language Learners: Word Recognition in L2 German and L1 Arabic

Speaker: Prof. Christine Czinglar (Friedrich Schiller University Jena (Germany))

Czinglar 2023 Slides Keynote ASLL Jena.pdf

Czinglar Abstract ASLL 2023.pdf

Video Recording

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 → 17:10 Sessions A: Quantitative Research, Assessment, Technical Literacy, and Precursors of Literacy: Session A1

Convener: Natalia Gagarina

15:30 → 17:10 Sessions B: Qualitative Research, Language Biographies, Literacy Practices, and Functional Literacy: Session B1

Convener: Ulrich Mehlem (University of Frankfurt)

15:30 Emerging Literacy in Multilingual Digital Practices of Young African Learners

Speakers: Egle Mocciaro (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic), Mari D'Agostino

Abstract DAGOSTINO_MOCCIARO Emerging literacy in multilingual digital practices.pdf

Presentation slides

Video Recording

16:05 Developing Functional Literacy in Urban Mobility with Low-Literate Adult Migrants: Focuses on Didactic Activities in Training Courses

Speakers: Elise Gandon (université Lumière Lyon 2), Véronique Rivière

Abstract RIVIERE_GANDON Developing functional literacy in urban mobility with low-literate adults.pdf

Presentation slides

16:35 Motivation and Migration Plan and Their Influence on L2 Literacy: the Case of Adult Syrian Refugees in South-East Turkey

Online

Speaker: Isabella Chiari (Sapienza Università di Roma)

Abstract CHIARI Motivation and Migration Plan and their influence on L2 literacy the case of adul.pdf

Video Recording

17:10 → 17:30 Coffee Break

17:30 → 19:00 Workshops (online/on-site): Workshops

17:30 Workshop A (on-site): Quantitative Research Design and Analysis (English)

The workshop speakers would like the participants to download and pre-install in advance
- the .sav file (dataset) and
- the free software (see link).
This will save you more time in the workshop!

Speakers: Marieke Vanbuel (UGent), Bart Deygers (Ghent University)

JASP Dowload

Workshop_ELIKASA.sav

Workshop_ELIKASA_Vanbuel&Deygers.jasp

Workshop Vanbuel+Deygers.pdf

17:30 Workshop B (on-site): Including Literacy Practices in Instructional Practice: Integrating Technical and Functional Literacy in Adult Instruction (English)

Participants should be prepared to bring at least one real-world text (either a print copy or a photograph of the text is fine). This text should not be one that is used in a school or academic setting (i.e., it should not be a worksheet, textbook, or similar text). Some examples of appropriate texts might include a menu, a sign in public, a bill, a brochure or pamphlet with medical information, a religious text, etc.

Speaker: Kristen Perry (University of Kentucky)

Workshop activity sheet.docx

Workshop Including Literacy Practices in Instructional Practice_Kristen Perry.pdf

Workshop Literacy Practices Perry.pdf

17:30 Workshop C (online): Lernberatung im Alphabetisierungsunterricht (German)

Support by Milica Sabo

Speaker: Alexis Feldmeier García (Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster; Universität Fribourg)

2023.03.16_ELIKASA Tagung_Lernberatung im AlphaU_PDF.pdf

Abstract FELDMEIER Workshop_Lernberatung im Alphabetisierungsunterricht.pdf

17:30 Workshop D (online): Kontrastive Alphabetisierung in DaZ-Alphabetisierungskursen: Wie kann sie gelingen? (German)

Support by Martino Pietrini

Speaker: Christina Noack (Universität Leipzig)

Workshop Gelingen kontrastiver Alphabetisierung in DaZ-Alphakursen_Christina Noack.pdf

19:00 → 20:00 On-Site Program

19:00 Reception

Speaker: Prof. Christine Czinglar (Friedrich Schiller University Jena (Germany))

Friday 17 March

09:00 → 10:00 Keynote

Convener: Katrin Wisniewski

09:00 KEYNOTE 2: Construct-relevant Testing and LESLLA Learners: Measuring L2 Proficiency and Gains in Populations with Diverging Educational Profiles

Speakers: Bart Deygers (Ghent University), Marieke Vanbuel (UGent)

Keynote Deygers Vanbuel Construct-relevant testing and LESLLA learners.pdf

Video Recording

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 → 11:35 Sessions A: Quantitative Research, Assessment, Technical Literacy, and Precursors of Literacy: Session A2

Convener: Katrin Wisniewski

10:30 Developing and Validating a Multilingual Literacy Test for Asylum Seekers

Speakers: Hannelore Hooft, Mariet Schiepers (Centre for Language and Education KU Leuven)

Abstract SCHIEPERS HOOFT Developing and validating a multilingual literacy test for asylum seeker.pdf

Video Recording

11:05 Letter Recognition Strategies of Emergent Adult L2 Readers: The Role of L2 Knowledge and Cross-Linguistic Transfer

Speakers: Gina Do Manh (Institut für Deutsch als Fremd- und Zweitsprache), Yulia Edeleva

Edeleva et al. 2023 Letter Recognition Strategies of Emergent Adult L2 Readers.pdf

10:30 → 11:35 Sessions B: Qualitative Research, Language Biographies, Literacy Practices, and Functional Literacy: Session B2

Convener: Karen Schramm (University of Vienna)

10:30 Literacy Artefacts from Real Life

Speaker: Elena Waggershauser

Abstract WAGGERSHAUSER Literacy Artefacs from real life.pdf

Video Recording

11:05 Texts in Everyday Life Literacy Practices of Migrant Adult Second Language Learners of German with L1 Arabic

Speakers: Franziska Förster (Friedrich Schiller University Jena (Germany)), Yousuf Mohammad Yousuf Aboamer (Friedrich Schiller University Jena (Germany))

Förster+Aboamer 2023 Texts in literacy practices

Video Recording

11:35 → 12:30 Lunch Break

12:30 → 13:30 On-site: Poster Session

The link to the poster padlet will be found here soon.

Convener: Dorothea Spaniel-Weise (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena)

12:30 Co-design focused, participatory approach to exploring a serious game with teachers of adult migrants with limited/interrupted formal education experience

Speaker: Eva Malessa (Univeristy of Jyväskylä)

Link to the poster on the poster padlet

12:30 Measuring reading fluency in LESLLA - Learners of German with L1 Turkish

Speaker: Zeynep Arslan

Link to poster on the poster padlet

12:30 Measuring Visual Word Recognition in L2 German & L1 Arabic

Speakers: Franziska Förster (Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena), Prof. Christine Czinglar (Friedrich Schiller University Jena (DaF/DaZ)), Yousuf Mohammad Yousuf Aboamer, Katharina Karges (University of Bamberg)

Link to the poster on the poster padlet

12:30 Spelling Inventory Farsi-Dari-An Assessment Instrument to meassure literal competences in L1 Farsi-Dari

Speakers: Feroz Nuranfar, Gina Do Manh (Institut für Deutsch als Fremd- und Zweitsprache)

Poster padlet

12:30 Views in*2 Literacies: Sharing images and literacy narratives about reading, writing and language learning in a collaborative research project

Speaker: Nadja Kerschhofer-Puhalo

Link to poster on the poster padlet

13:40 → 14:45 Sessions A: Quantitative Research, Assessment, Technical Literacy, and Precursors of Literacy: Session A3

Convener: Christoph Schroeder (Universität Potsdam)

13:40 Language-specific Sound Perception and its Influence on Acquisitional Processes of LESLLA Learners

Speaker: Nadja Kerschhofer-Puhalo

Abstract KERSCHHOFER_PUHALO Language-specific sound perception.pdf

Video Recording

14:15 Acquisition of Reading and Writing Skills in Adult Migrants with Differing Levels of Literacy: Phonological Awareness in the Context of Contrastive Literacy

Speakers: Alexis Feldmeier García, Marie-Anne Morand (Universität Fribourg), Prof. Thomas Studer

Abstract MORAND_FELDMEIERGARCÌA_STUDER Acquisition of reading and writing skills.pdf

Video Recording

13:40 → 14:45 Sessions B: Qualitative Research, Language Biographies, Literacy Practices, and Functional Literacy: Session B3

Convener: Dorothea Spaniel-Weise (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena)

13:40 Thinking Aloud and Reading Time Experiments: Using Qualitative and Quantitative Methods to Investigate Reading Processes in Heterogenous Groups with Low-literate Participants

Speakers: Alexis Feldmeier García (Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster; Universität Fribourg), Askan Ghobeyshi (Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster), Carolina Olszycka, Sandra Pappert (Institut für Deutsch als Fremdsprachenphilologie der Universität Heidelberg)

Abstract_FELDMEIER_OLSZYCKA_GHOBEYSHI_PAPPERT_Thinking Aloud and Reading Time Experiments.pdf

Video Recording

14:15 Literacy Biographies of Adolescent Learners in Second Language Acquisition of German

Speaker: Dorothee Steinbock (Universität Potsdam)

2023.17.03.Steinbock_literacy biographies.pdf

Abstract STEINBOCK Literacy biographies of adolescent learners in second language acquisition.pdf

Video Recording

14:45 → 15:15 Coffee Break

15:15 → 16:20 Sessions A: Quantitative Research, Assessment, Technical Literacy, and Precursors of Literacy: Session A4

Convener: Christoph Schroeder (Universität Potsdam)

15:15 Ways of Grammar: Analytical Constructions in the Acquisition of L2 Italian by Adult Learners with Limited Literacy

Speaker: Egle Mocciaro (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic)

Abstract MOCCIARO Ways of grammar Analytical constructions in the acquisition of L2 Italian.pdf

Presentation slides

Video Recording

15:50 CANCELLED - Blended Language Learning for LESLLA-Learners: Achieving Added Values by Overcoming Thresholds in a Targeted Way

Speakers: Annelies Jehoul (KU Leuven), Helena Van Nuffel (KU Leuven (Belgium)), Mariet Schiepers (Centre for Language and Education KU Leuven)

Abstract SCHIEPERS_JEHOUL_VAN NUFFEL Blended language learning for LESLLA-learners.pdf

15:15 → 16:20 Sessions B: Qualitative Research, Language Biographies, Literacy Practices, and Functional Literacy: Session B4

Convener: Ulrich Mehlem (University of Frankfurt)

15:15 Supporting L2 Learning in Non-Formal Educational Contexts in Greece for Adolescent Refugees/Migrants: An E-Book Named “Say it in Broken Greek“

Speakers: Ioannis Papagiannopoulos, Marianna Kondyli, Peggy Manoli, Roula Kitsiou, Sofia Tsioli, Sotiria Kalbeni, Stella Bratimou, Vasilis Mavraganis

Abstract KONDYLI ET AL Supporting L2 learning in non-formal educational contexts in Greece.pdf

Video Recording

15:50 Translanguaging: The Overlooked Potential in German Language Classes for Adult Migrants

Speakers: Andrea DeCapua (Educational Consultant), Ina-Maria Maahs (University of Cologne (Germany)), Marco Triulzi (DAAD - Università La Sapienza)

Abstract DECAPUA_MAAHS_TRIULZI Translanguaging The overlooked potential.pdf

Presentation slides

Video Recording

16:20 → 16:45 Coffee Break

16:45 → 22:00 On-Site Program

16:45 ELIKASA Advisory Board Meeting

Speaker: Prof. Christine Czinglar (Friedrich Schiller University Jena (Germany))

17:00 Sightseeing Walk

Meeting point is the Foyer (registration desk)

Speaker: Dieter Werner Biechele (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena)

19:30 Get Together

7:10 pm: Walk to the restaurant Café Lenz. The meeting point is the foyer (1st floor).
Directions: https://goo.gl/maps/UPMDwdZ6vZywv8ma7

Speaker: Prof. Christine Czinglar (Friedrich Schiller University Jena (Germany))

Saturday 18 March

09:00 → 10:00 Keynote

Convener: Karen Schramm (University of Vienna)

09:00 KEYNOTE 3: How Functional is “Functional Literacy”? The Role of Power, Privilege, and Politics in Shaping Language and Literacy Concepts

Speaker: Kristen Perry (University of Kentucky)

Keynote Perry How Functional is Functional Literacy.pdf

Video Recording

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 → 11:35 Sessions A: Quantitative Research, Assessment, Technical Literacy, and Precursors of Literacy: Session A5

Convener: Natalia Gagarina (Leibniz ZAS Berlin (Germany))

10:30 Predictors of Success in French Reading for LESLLA Learners in Quebec: Developing Tools to Measure Key Variables

Speaker: Alexandra Hamel Michaud (Université. du Québec à Montréal)

Abstract MICHAUD Predictors of success in French reading for LESLLA learners in Quebec.pdf

AHM_ELIKASA2023_pdfversion.pdf

Video Recording

11:05 Had to be cancelled - Assessing Cross-linguistic and Transfer Strategies of Emergent L2 Writers in Multiliterate Classrooms

There wil be a video recording afterwards.

Speakers: Gina Do Manh (Institut für Deutsch als Fremd- und Zweitsprache), Yulia Edeleva

10:30 → 11:35 Sessions B: Qualitative Research, Language Biographies, Literacy Practices, and Functional Literacy: Session B5

Convener: Karen Schramm (University of Vienna)

10:30 L2 Language Learning Challenges of Adult Migrants with Low Educational Backgrounds in Greek Second Chance Schools: Students’ Voices

Speaker: Emmanouela Seiradakis (Technical University of Crete, Greece & Hellenic Open University, Greece)

Abstract SEIRADAKIS L2 language learning challenges of adult migrants with low educational background.pdf

Video Recording

11:05 Across the Threshold: How the Transition from Orality to Literacy Changes the Relationship between Teachers and Learners in the Classroom

Speaker: Cosima Lemke-Ghafir (Univerität Potsdam)

Abstract LEMKE-GHAFIR Across the Threshold.pdf

Video Recording

11:35 → 12:00 Coffee Break

12:00 → 13:30 Round Table Discussion

Convener: Prof. Christine Czinglar (Friedrich Schiller University Jena (Germany))

12:00 Round Table Discussion

Understanding language and literacy acquisition of adult migrants with low literacy skills - Research perspectives, challenges, and inspirations

Please join the padlet for questions, comments and topics (link below)

Speakers: Kristen Perry (University of Kentucky), Karen Schramm (University of Vienna), Ulrich Mehlem (University of Frankfurt), Bart Deygers (Ghent University), Christoph Schroeder (Universität Potsdam)

Padlet

Video Recording

13:15 Closing Remarks and Farewell

Speaker: Prof. Christine Czinglar (Friedrich Schiller University Jena (Germany))