Program Download the program (in Spanish)
- 08:30 -> Shuttle bus leaves from Kiosko Hotel Meliá, Alicante
- 09:00 - 09:30 -> Participant Registration - Entrance
- 09:30 - 10:00 -> Opening Ceremony
Amparo Navarro, Rector of the University of Alicante; Rosabel Roig, Vice Rector of Lifelong Learning and Languages; Juana Sanmartín, President of ACLES; Julia Zabala, President of CERCLES
- 10:00 - 11:00 -> Round table: Challenges for a new generation of students
Participants: Mar Galindo (Alicante University), Alexander Grimm (University of Martin-Luther- Halle-Wittenberg), Elisabeth Paliot (Centre of Basic Education, HEIG-VD) and Laurent Rouveyrol (University of Sorbonne Nouvelle).
Moderator: Julián López (Alicante University) - 11:00 - 11:30 -> Coffee Break
- 11:30 - 13:15 -> Workshops
- Workshop 1 - Mental health of university students: current challenges and applicable resources in language teaching. (workshop in Spanish). Lucía Tomás, Mindplace.
- Workshop 2 - Motivation and needs of students today (workshop in English). Tom Grainger, University of Aix-Marseille.
- Workshop 5 - Making assessment more relevant and meaningful for the students (multilingual workshop, lead in English). Johann Fischer, University of Gottingen.
- 13:15 - 14:30 -> Lunch
- 14:30 - 15:30 -> Parallel presentations
- 15:30 - 16:15 -> Presentation CertAcles Digital
- 16:15 - 16:45 -> Focus Groups (Focus Group in Translation, Spanish, Quality, etc.)
- 16:45 - 17:15 -> Coffee break
- 17:30 - 18:30 -> Parallel presentations
- 18:45 -> Shuttle bus departure (transfer to the castle visit and, for those who do not want to participate in the visit, to Puerta del Mar)
- 19:30 -> Social program - Visit to the Santa Bárbara castle
- 08:30 -> Shuttle bus leaves Kiosko Hotel Meliá, Alicante
- 09:00 - 10:30 -> Round table: European Associations of Language Centres: visibility and strategic importance of language centres in the
university of the future.
Participants: Maike Engelhardt (AKS), Tom Grainger (RANACLES), Juana Sanmartín (ACLES), Julia Zabala (CERCLES).
Moderator: Libor Štěpánek, (CERCLES) - 10:30 - 11:00 -> Coffee break
- 11:00 - 12:30 -> Parallel presentations
- 12:30 - 13:45 -> Plenary Lecture Brian North: “Time for a change? Action-orientation and agency in language teaching/learning”
- 13:45 - 14:45 -> Lunch
- 15:00 - 16:30 -> Workshops
- Workshop 3 - Standard setting in comprehension tests (workshop in Spanish). Inés Soria and Javier Fruns (Instituto Cervantes)
- Workshop 4 - Creative strategies for effective language teaching (workshop in English). Libor Štěpánek, Masaryk University
- 16:30 - 17:00 -> Coffee Break
- 17:00 - 18:30 -> ACLES Members' Assembly
- 17:00 - 18:30 -> Parallel presentations
- 18:30 - 19:00 -> Conclusions and Closing Ceremony
- 19:15 -> Shuttle bus departure
- 21:30 - 23:00 -> Social program - Dinner in Poniente Restaurant, Alicante Yacht Club
- 9:30 -> Departure by bus from Puerta del Mar, Alicante
- 10:30 -> Visit to Altea
- 12:00 -> Craft beer tasting - Cervezas Althaia
- 15:00 -> Arrival in Alicante, Puerta del Mar
