Program - ACLES 2025

08:30 -> Shuttle bus leaves from Puerta del Mar, Alicante
09:00 - 09:30 -> Participant Registration - Entrance
09:30 - 10:00 -> Opening Ceremony
10:00 - 11:00 -> Round table: Challenges for a new generation of students
11:00 - 11:30 -> Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:15 -> Workshops
- Workshop 1 - Mental health of generation Z. What do I do as a teacher / head teacher / director of a language centre?
- Workshop 2 - Motivation and needs of new learners. Tom Grainger. University of Marseille.
13:15 - 14:30 -> Lunch
14:30 - 15:30 -> Parallel sessions
- ACLES Working Groups (Interest group in Translation, ELE Interest Group, etc.)
- Sponsored Slot
15:30 -> Plenary lecture
16:45 - 17:15 -> Coffee break
17:30 - 19:00 -> Parallel communications
19:15 -> Shuttle bus departure (transfer to the castle visit and, for those who do not want to participate in the visit, to Puerta del Mar)
20:00 -> Social program - Visit to the castle and cocktail party

08:30 -> Shuttle bus leaves Puerta del Mar, 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.
Moderator: Libor Štěpánek, Masaryk University
10:30 - 11:00 -> Coffee break
11:00 - 12:30 -> Parallel presentations
12:30 - 13:45 -> Plenary Lecture
13:45 - 14:45 -> Lunch
15:00 - 17:00 -> Workshops
- Workshop 3 - Assessment (to be confirmed)
- Workshop 4 - Creative strategies for effective language teaching. Libor Štěpánek, Masaryk University
17:00 - 17:30 -> Coffee Break
17:30 - 19:00 -> ACLES Members' Assembly
17:30 - 19:00 -> Parallel presentations
19:15 - 19:45 -> Conclusions and Closing Ceremony
20:00 -> Shuttle bus departure
21:30 - 23:00 -> Social program - Dinner in Poniente Restaurant, Alicante Yacht Club

Thursday 10th July