WG2 + WG3 Workshop, Zagreb

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ELN WGs 2 and 3 have met in Zagreb to coordinate and advance their joint projects and activities.

Travel Arrangements

Meeting Venue

The meeting will take place in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb.

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences University of Zagreb (FHSS)

The FHSS is the largest higher education institution in Croatia, which carries out research activities and executes university programs in the field of humanities and social sciences, as well as a significant cultural institution with a great impact on Croatian culture and society. The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences is part of the University of Zagreb, the oldest university in Croatia and one of the oldest universities in Europe. In addition to teaching activities, members of Faculty perform research activities in special scientific areas. The main research activities are in the field of psychology, sociology, information and communication sciences, philosophy, linguistics, history, art history, archaeology, ethnology and cultural anthropology, and many philological groups. In some scientific aspects in the field of humanities and social sciences it can be safely said that the FHSS is a point of reference at the European level.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Sarah Huffman

Iowa State University

USA

Tomas Tjus

University of Gothenburg

Sweden

Sarah Huffman, Iowa State University, short-bio

Sarah Huffman holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics and Technology and is currently the Assistant Director of the Center for Communication Excellence in the Graduate College at Iowa State University, U.S.A. She has instructed English as a Foreign Language in Banska Bystrica, Slovakia and Queretaro, Mexico, and English as a Second Language at Eastern Mennonite University and Iowa State University. Currently, Sarah teaches graduate- and postdoctoral-level courses on empirical research writing and trains graduate writing consultants to critically analyze and provide constructive feedback on peers’ disciplinary writing. Her research interests include genre and discourse analysis, the development and implementation of writing technologies to promote enhanced learning of academic communication genres, and systemic functional linguistic approaches to language development.

Tomas Tjus, University of Gothenburg, short-bio

Tomas Tjus is licensed psychologist, licensed psychotherapist and professor at Department of psychology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Before doing an academic career he worked at child- and adolescent clinic and child neuropsychiatric clinic and he has also been supervisor for clinical staff at schools and treatment units for children and adolescents with various problems. He is conducting basic research about children’s cognitive, social and communicative development and applied research investigating the use of multimedia programs when trying to increase literacy skills in children with different reading problems.

Friday, March 31
Venue for the day: conference room in the library of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2nd floor

9h	Move analysis for automated writing evaluation Sarah Huffman, Iowa State University
10h	Digital provision to academic writing: Approaches, technologies, uses download pdf Christian Rapp, Zurich University of Applied Sciences
10h30	Introducing innovation action iRead: Foundations and next steps Mina Vasalou, University College London
11h	Coffee Break
11h30	Digital literacy and learning solutions: Country based examples download pdf Maria Jose Brites, University of Minho and Luís Pereira, Conventry University
12h	Dissertation/thesis writing across Europe: Exploring student writers’ experiences download pdf Bojana Petric, University of Essex
12h30	Presentation of good practices in promotion of reading - short presentations Let Me Read You a Book: Presentation of a National Reading Project, Kristina Čunović, Karlovac Public Library "Ivan Goran Kovačić" Let Me Tell You a Story: Volunteer project based on using storytelling with hospitalized children Antonia Ćosić, Centre for psychological support and development "Talk To Me” Home Reading: From Cesarić to Shakespeare Đurđica Jelačić, Elementary school Dobriša Cesarić
13h30	Lunch Break
15h	Training reading skills with the use of computer programs encompassing bottom-up and top-down strategies download pdf Tomas Tjus, University of Gothenburg
16h	From Critical Reader to Critical Citizen download pdf Anita Peti-Stantić, University of Zagreb
16h30	STSM to IBBY Lampedusa Library: Reading with (migrant) families on the island of Lampedusa download pdf Helen Limon, Newcastle University
17h	Coffee Break
17h30	Discussion of ELN Charter and closing session downlad pdf Societal team

Agenda
Thursday, March 30

9h	Parallel meetings on methods, tools and experiments: WG2 Academic Writing Team (room B-110) Presentations by: Mira Bekar, Montserrat Castello, Tiane Donohue, Claudia Doroholschi WG2 Development of reader/writer Team (room C-302) WG3 Developing and inventory or tools for supporting learning to write Team (room 013 in the library) Societal Team meeting (room B-212)
11h	Coffee Break
11h30	Parallel meetings WG2 Academic Writing Team (room B-110) Presentations by: Alma Jahic , Tanja Memisevic, Bojana Petric, Karl-Heinz Pogner WG2 Development of reader/writer Team (room C-302) Roundtable on reading-writing assessments and interventions: methoological issues - Invited Presentations: Reading Comprehension and Writing in the Content Areas - Assessments to Interventions Kay Wijekumar, Texas A & M University Tailored support addressing diversity in reading skills: the importance of assessment as a foundation for evidence-based interventions Susanne Seifert, Katharina Maria Maitz and Lisa Paleczek, University of Graz WG3 Developing and inventory or tools for supporting learning to write Team (room 013 in the library) Societal Team meeting (room B-212)
13h	Lunch break
14h30	Parallel meetings WG2 Academic Writing Team (room B-110) WG2 Development of reader/writer Team (room C-302) WG3 Developing and inventory or tools for supporting learning to write Team (room 013 in the library) Societal Team meeting (room B-212)
16h30	Coffee Break
17h	Parallel meetings WG2 Academic Writing Team (room B-110) WG2 Development of reader/writer Team (room C-302) WG3 Developing and inventory or tools for supporting learning to write Team (room 013 in the library) Societal Team meeting (room B-212)

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