Keynotes

Ana Isabel Andrade has a PhD in Language Didactics from the University of Aveiro (Portugal). She is Associate Professor with Aggregation in the Department of Education and Psychology of the University of Aveiro, where she has been responsible for curricular units in the initial and postgraduate courses for (future) teachers. She has coordinated and participated in different research projects about linguistic diversity and intercomprehension in teaching and in teacher education, among them the ILTE project, Intercomprehension in Language Teacher Education, funded by the European Commission, the project that led to the Open Laboratory of Foreign Language Learning (LALE) and the project Languages and Education funded by FCT. She is currently a member of the CARAP project team, a project of ECML (European Center for Modern Languages) of the Council of Europe. She is a founding member of the EDiLiC Association. She is also a researcher at CIDTFF (Research Centre for Didatics and Technology in Teacher Education) and she coordinates the Research Group 1, Languages, discourses and identities.

Piet Van Avermaet is Professor in ‘Language and Diversity’ in the Linguistics Department of Ghent University, Belgium, where he teaches 'multicultural studies', 'multilingualism in education' and 'language policy'. He is also Director of the Centre for Diversity & Learning at the same University. He has a long-standing expertise in the field of diversity, language and social inequality in education. He is series co-editor (with Kathleen Heugh and Christopher Stroud) of the book series ‘Multilingualisms and Diversities in Education’, Bloomsbury. His expertise and research interests cover topics related to multilingualism in education, social inequality in education, language policy and practice in education, language policy and practice in contexts of (social) inclusion, language assessment, diversity and inclusion, integration and participation, discrimination in education, migration.

Dr Christine Hélot is emeritus professor of English at the University of Strasbourg France. As a sociolinguist her research focuses on language in education policies in France and in Europe, bi-multilingual education, intercultural education, language awareness, early childhood education, and children’s literature and multiliteracy.

In 1988 she obtained her PhD from Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland) for a thesis entitled Child Bilingualism: a linguistic and sociolinguistic study, and in 2005 she was awarded an Habilitation by the University of Strasbourg for her research on bilingualism in the home and school contexts. Dr Hélot has been a guest professor at the University Pablo de Olavide (Sevilla, Spain), Goethe University (Frankfurt Am Main, Germany) and at the Graduate Centre, CUNY, in New York (USA).

Her most recent books include: 2018, Language Awareness in Multilingual Classrooms in Europe. From Theory to Practice, De Gruyter/Mouton (with Frijns et al) ; 2016, L’éducation bilingue en France: Politiques linguistiques, modèles et pratiques, Lambert Lucas, (with J. Erfurt); 2014, Children's Literature in Multilingual Classrooms, IOE Press/Trentham Books (with R. Sneddon & N. Daly).

For her research on language awareness, see the film "Raconte-moi ta langue/Tell me how you talk": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP5o0fk34jk