Full Schedule

Ramsalt
Strand 1: Teacher education for in-depth English language learning with children’s literature
Strand 2: Interculturality, diversity & critical literacy in English language learning with children’s literature

Monday 6 May 2024

Ramsalt
Hundholmen
Saltstraumen
14:30
Conference opening
Location: Ramsalt
15:00
KEYNOTE
Frank Serafini
Multimodality, picturebooks, and reading pedagogy: Rethinking what matters
Location: Ramsalt
16:00
Coffee break
16:30
Nayr Ibrahim, Sunny Man Chu Lau & Lindsay Tolton
Teacher education in ELT through international placement: Reading for in-depth intercultural learning
Location: Ramsalt
Lamia Nemouchi
Literature for social justice and inclusion: Students’ learning and experience
Location: Hundholmen
Marit Elise Lyngstad
Creating space for addressing the climate crisis by using picturebooks in the primary classroom
Location: Saltstraumen
17:00
Katherina Dodou & Lisbeth Brevik
The teaching of literature in English in Norwegian lower secondary classrooms: Findings from a large-scale video-observation study
Location: Ramsalt
Nayr Ibrahim
Dual-language picturebooks for in-depth reading in ELT: identities and interculturalities
Location: Hundholmen
Torunn Skjærstad
Creating spaces for interdisciplinarity in the English subject: Reading literary texts about history
Location: Saltstraumen
17:30
10-minute walk to library
18:00
WELCOME DRINK
Location: På Pir bar, Stormen library
18:30
SPECIAL EVENT
Location: Stormen Library, Litteratursalen
Gro Dahle
The dark corners of childhood
19:45
CONFERENCE DINNER
Location: Roast Restaurant and Skybar, Scandic Havet, Tollbugaten 5

Tuesday 7 May 2024

Ramsalt
Hundholmen
Saltstraumen
09:00
Raúl Alberto Mora & Tatiana Chiquito-Gómez
Exploring migrant literature in preservice English teacher education as a gateway to critical consciousness
Location: Ramsalt
Johanna Marks & Thorsten Merse
Teaching children’s literature competently: Implications for teacher education
Location: Hundholmen
Hege Emma Rimmereide
Ecocritical dialogues to enhance environmental awareness
Location: Saltstraumen
09:30
Mona Humaid Aljanahi & Dina AlKhawaldeh
An exploration of UAE families’ involvement in an ESL take-home book-bag reading experience
Location: Ramsalt
Lisbeth Brevik & Shilan Ahmadian
Teachers’ integration of game and novel in English instruction: A video-observation study
Location: Hundholmen
Heidi Haavan Grosch
Learning to see: Using children’s literature to rediscover nature
Location: Saltstraumen
10:00
Alyssa Magee Lowery & Jade Dillon Craig
Stories matter: Using popular family films to support curriculum aims in the EFL/EAL classroom
Location: Ramsalt
Paul Morris
The writer in the reader
Location: Hundholmen
Sandie Mourão & David Valente
Picturebooks as disruptors in early English language education
Location: Saltstraumen
10:30
Coffee break
11:00
PANEL: English for social change: Learning from literature and beyond
Susanne Reichl
From stories to action: A model of social change
Location: Ramsalt
Søren Hattesen Balle & Merete Olsen
Teaching communicative skills and intercultural awareness through the use of picturebooks
Location: Hundholmen
Mari Skjerdal Lysne
Teaching multimodal literature: In-service teachers’ professional development and classroom experiences
Location: Saltstraumen
11:30
PANEL: English for social change: Learning from literature and beyond
Ariane Manutscheri
Good omens for social change: Inspiring civic engagement in the English classroom via fan activism
Location: Ramsalt
Caroline Theurer, Maria Eisenmann, Sanna Pohlmann-
Rother, Julia Fromm, Katharina Kindermann, Nadine Krüger
EFL learning in elementary school by means of digital storytelling: The StoryTimE-project
Location: Hundholmen
Melanie Duckworth
Reflections on reading and mapping Trace Balla’s Landing With Wings with student teachers
Location: Saltstraumen
12:00
PANEL: English for social change: Learning from literature and beyond
Georg Wendt
Encouraging critical literacy in English literature classrooms through the video game Night in the woods
Location: Ramsalt
Frauke Matz & Julia Reckermann
Addressing racism with young language learners through picture books
Location: Hundholmen
Susanne Karen Jacobsen
Working with functional grammar and literature in teacher education
Location: Saltstraumen
12:30
Lunch
14:00
Barbara Prusse-Hess & Michael Prusse
Dragons, knights and princesses: Pupils and student teachers explore fairy-tale motifs in children’s literature
Location: Ramsalt
Associations & Projects introduce their profiles
  • CLMCE: Erasmus Mundus – Children’s Literature, Media & Cultural Entrepreneurship
  • ELLRA: Early Language Learning Research Association
Location: Hundholmen
PANEL: Multimodal children’s literature to promote social justice through critical literacy in teacher education
Dolores Miralles-Alberola
Indigenous social justice through North American multimodal texts from Manitoba to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec
Location: Saltstraumen
14:30
Suzanne Graham, Alison Porter & James Turner
Digital professional development for digital literacy: Improving language teacher sense of competence, autonomy and relatedness
Location: Ramsalt
Associations & Projects introduce their profiles
  • ARCLEN: The Association for Research on Children’s Literature in English in Norway

  • Master+: Nord University Master Plus Research School
Location: Hundholmen
PANEL: Multimodal children’s literature to promote social justice through critical literacy in teacher education
Concepción Soler Pous
Learning for justice through a critical gaze in the foreign language classroom
Location: Saltstraumen
15:00
Tara McIlroy
Narratives and metaphors of childhood reading: CEFR and literary competences
Location: Ramsalt
Journals introduce their profiles
  • RFL: Reading in a Foreign Language
  • CILS: Critical Inquiry in Language Studies
  • CLELE: Children’s Literature in English Language Education
  • DIALOGUE: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture & Pedagogy
Location: Hundholmen
PANEL: Multimodal children’s literature to promote social justice through critical literacy in teacher education
Mercedes Pérez-Agustín
Natural science and literature (We Are Water Protectors) to foster interculturality and social justice in English language primary classrooms
Location: Saltstraumen
15:30
Coffee break
16:00
KEYNOTE
Jena Habegger-Conti
Sense-making: Multimodal literacy as aesthetic engagement
Location: Ramsalt
17:00
Free time & walk to library
18:30
SPECIAL EVENT
Location: Stormen Library, Litteratursalen
David Kroik
Spaces for Saami language use, language revitalization & indigenous efflorescence
We acknowledge that the conference takes place in the region of Sápme, where the Sámi people have lived in harmony with nature since time immemorial. Bådåddjo/Buvvda/Bodø is in the geographical area of the Lule and Pite Sámi languages.
Mij lip diedulattja konferánssa Sámen dáhpáduvvá, gånnå sáme li ájgij tjadá viessum ja årrum. Bådåddjo/Buvvda/Bodø l julev- ja bidumsáme guovllo.

Wednesday 8 May 2024

Ramsalt
Hundholmen
Saltstraumen
09:00
Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak
English language teaching and children’s literature of the anthropocene: A focus on loss, grief, mourning, and remembrance
Location: Ramsalt
PANEL: The ELLiL Project: An agentic and creative approach to children’s literature in university-school teaching practice
David Valente
Ridl: A framework for integrating children’s literature in English education
Location: Hundholmen
Wafa Pathan
Disney and Pixar on diverse intergenerational trauma narratives: A source of multiculturalism in EFL classrooms
Location: Saltstraumen
9:30
Amanda Brewer & Mariannella Núñez
Windows and mirrors: Literary texts to support language development and critical global literacies
Location: Ramsalt
PANEL: The ELLiL Project: An agentic and creative approach to children’s literature in university-school teaching practice
Wendy King
Text selections and co-creations: Lesson planning with the Ridl framework
Location: Hundholmen
Kyoko Kuze
Exploring the potential of picturebooks from a mediation perspective
Location: Saltstraumen
10:00
Rhoda Myra Garces-Bacsal
Interculturality, critical literacy, and social justice through diverse picturebooks for diverse children
Location: Ramsalt
PANEL: The ELLiL Project: An agentic and creative approach to children’s literature in university-school teaching practice
Remi-Andre Antonsen, France Destroismaisons, Evy

Kværnø, Kawshiki Nasser, Wendy King & David Valente

Into the classroom: Dialogic reflections on the Ridl framework
Location: Hundholmen
Shaun Nolan
Visual thinking strategies as a ‘meta-visual-lingual’ activity for the support of a multi-modal critical literacy
Location: Saltstraumen
10:30
Coffee break
11:00
Sandie Mourão
Intercultural citizenship education through picturebooks in early English language learning: Practitioner competencies
Location: Ramsalt
PANEL: Criticality and diversity in English literature didactics
Sissil Lea Heggernes
Fostering democratic citizenship through picturebook art: Repositioning the reader through critical content analysis
Location: Hundholmen
Jessica Allen Hanssen
Author intention in English education: Does it matter? The gender critical case of J.K. Rowling
Location: Saltstraumen
11:30
Annett Kaminski
Setting the scene for in-depth learning: Story-based activities around picturebooks in primary EFL
Location: Ramsalt
PANEL: Criticality and diversity in English literature didactics
Mildrid H.A. Bjerke
Affective responses to racism in The Secret Garden: Empathy as a gateway to solidarity
Location: Hundholmen
Maria Casado Villanueva
Multilingualism and multimodality: Approaching Pablo Neruda’s life and poems with picturebooks
Location: Saltstraumen
12:00
Ingrid K. Jakobsen
Learning with and learning about picturebooks: In-depth learning with Anthony Browne’s books in teacher education
Location: Ramsalt
PANEL: Criticality and diversity in English literature didactics
Colin Haines
Queering ever after: Citation and subversion in Trung Le Nguyen’s The Magic Fish
Location: Hundholmen
Anke Zondag
Spoken word poetry: Engaging, embodied empowerment
Location: Saltstraumen
12:30
Lunch
13:30
TEACHER WORKSHOPS
Gail Ellis
(13:30-14:10)
Exploring social issues through picturebooks in the primary English classroom
Location: Hundholmen
14:00
Janice Bland
Creative writing in teacher education with mentor texts
Location: Ramsalt
Exploring social issues through picturebooks in the primary English classroom
Wendy King
(14:20-15:00)
Gro-Anita Myklevold, Randi Viktoria Sjølie & Sara Barosen Liverød
Multilingualism and multimodality: Exploring empathy in Anne Frank’s Diary – The Graphic Adaptation (2018)
Location: Saltstraumen
14:30
Julie McAdam & Rowena Seabrook
Using metaphors to frame the exploration of children’s literature in English language learning
Location: Ramsalt
TEACHER WORKSHOPS
Wendy King
(14:20-15:00)
Tools for teaching students to explore meaning in texts through reader response
Location: Hundholmen
Heidi Støa
Strange pasts and intercultural encounters in On midnight beach
Location: Saltstraumen
15:00
Coffee break
15:10
ROUNDTABLE
Reading for in-depth English Learning: Questioning and sharing
  • Janice Bland
  • Sunny Man Chu Lau
  • Jena Habegger-Conti
  • Frank Serafini
  • Stephen Krashen
Location: Ramsalt
16:30
Conference closing
Location: Ramsalt
Contact

Phone:        755 17 000

E-mail:       postmottak@nord.no

Postal address

Post box 1490

8049 Bodø

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