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Forum 8 – April 2026: Innovations in Inclusive Language Pedagogies

Wednesday 29th April 2026

The Organising Committee
Theresa Federici · Wissia Fiorucci · Marina Micke · Vanesa Sabala

Programme

Please register here: Innovations in Inclusive Language Pedagogies  

10:00 – 10:10  Welcome

10:10-11:10  Practical Frameworks for Inclusion

10:10 – 10:25  ELhadj Moussa BenMoussa (University of East London). Beyond “Participation”: Designing Interaction Spaces Where Linguistic Diversity is an asset.  
10:25 – 10:40  Emanuela Ponti (University of Glasgow). Can We Do It All? Maximising Testing Opportunities and Looking After Different Learners in an IWLP Italian Course.   
10:40 – 10:55  Becky Muradás-Taylor (University of Leeds). Sustainable design and inclusive assessment in institutional-wide languages provision.   
10:55 – 11:10  Questions and discussion 

 

11:15 – 12:15   Inclusive Technologies 

11:15 – 11:30  Emanuele Conte (University of Glasgow) and Arnaldo delli Carri (Coventry University). Bridging Languages Through Play: A Gamified Approach to Inclusive Scientific Terminology Learning.     
11:30 – 11:45  Alicia Moreno Giménez (Lancaster University). Harnessing AI and VR for Inclusive Language Learning: A Design-Based Study 
11:45 – 12:00  Ana Sevilla-Merino (University of Leeds). A Challenge-Based Approach to Education: Is Lingua Connect Education 5:0?    
12:00 – 12:15  Questions and discussion 

 

12:20-12:45  Asynchronous papers and open discussion 

Selected asynchronous papers, available in advance, will be discussed in this session.

 

 13:45-14:45 Learner Communities and Identities 

13:45 – 14:00  Marcela Cazzoli & Cecilia Piantanida (Durham University & University of Warwick). Transnational and Translanguaging Pedagogies: Italy and Argentina Across Languages. 
14:00 – 14:15  Ramona Gonczol (SSEES UCL). A Staff-Student Collaboration Project on Heritage Linguistic and Cultural Identities Through Museum Inquiries.          
14:15 – 14:30  Víctor González Arija (UNED, Spain). Silence as Discourse: Ideology and Omission in Spanish as a Foreign Language (ELE) Materials 
14:30 – 14:45  Questions and discussion 

 

14:50-15:50 Resources and Reflective Practice 

14:50 – 15:05  Yussuf Hamad (Zanzibar University). Practice-Based, Reflective Analysis of Inclusive Pedagogy of English Language Teaching at a Resource-Limited Zanzibar University. 
15:05 – 15:20  Elena Volkova, Nodira Isamukhamedova, Lobar Babakhodjaeva (Westminster International University in Tashkent -WIUT). The Illusion of Knowing: A Collaborative Self-Study of Four Educators’ Journey into Inclusive Pedagogy.    
15:20 – 15:35  Sandra Ober (French Made Simple).  The Cognitive Staircase: Designing Inclusive Early Language Pedagogy Through Narrative Sequencing.
15:35 – 15:50 Questions and discussion 

 

15:50-16:00  Conclusion and final remarks