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The Languages Classroom

Title: The Languages Classroom 
Session type: Panel
Chair: Inma Álvarez, The Open University
Participants: Paola Bohórquez, University of Toronto, Canada; Dunja Baus, York University, Canada; Jelena Ćalić, UCL; Svetlana Rakočević, University of Westminster; Margaret Anne Clarke, Independent Researcher/Open University 


Description:
This panel session looked at the modern languages classroom as a space for both challenge and consolidation. Details of each presentation can be found by clicking on the titles below:

The Teacher-As-Reader: From Assessing Error to Engaging Linguistic Difference in Student Academic Writing
Paola Bohórquez University of Toronto, Canada; Dunja Baus, York University, Canada

Classroom as a world re-making place: challenging and accommodating preconceived ideas about the Other in the context of teaching a pluricentric language
Jelena Ćalić, UCL; Svetlana Rakočević, University of Westminster

Memory Acts in Language Education: the “Generations” Project

Margaret Anne Clarke Independent Researcher/Open University (formerly University of Portsmouth)