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Language Centres in Higher Education: Sharing, Innovations, Research, Methodology and Best Practices

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KATRŇÁKOVÁ Hana REICHOVÁ Hana HRADILOVÁ Alena SEDLÁČKOVÁ Kateřina ŠTĚPÁNEK Libor BILOVÁ Štěpánka CHOVANCOVÁ Barbora POŘÍZKOVÁ Kateřina HELÁN Robert POJSLOVÁ Blanka SLOŽILOVÁ Eva

Year of publication 2015
Type Conference
MU Faculty or unit

Language Centre

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Description Masaryk University Language Centre, being a dynamic organization of many educational as well as research interests, invited higher education teaching staff, researchers and managers to present, share and discuss their ideas in a creative atmosphere of the conference. There were four sections: Innovation, Research, Methodology and Best Practices. These main topics were approached through the following subtopics: innovation and pilot experiments in teaching LAP/LSP; innovations in academic writing; introducing alternative teaching methods, such as collaborative learning, autonomous learning, cross-cultural communication, creativity, critical thinking and other soft skills; new approaches to standardizing/personalizing language assessment and testing; ICT implementation; social media in language learning and teaching; continuous professional development, further staff education and training; University Language Centres – language policies implementation; University Language Centres – local, national and/or international networking strategies; management of university language centres; soft and personal skills development; ways of collecting and implementing feedback material, and quality management.
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