The Summer School The role of drama in higher and adult language education: teacher training and the challenges of inclusionis aimed at Master’s students, PhD students, young researchers, scholars and practitioners in the area of second language learning and teaching who already engage in or would like to become involved in drama activities and to conduct research into these. The five-day (Monday-Friday) Summer School willtake place from 22 to 26 July 2019, and will be hosted at Université Grenoble Alpes, France.

Presentation

The Summer School The role of drama in higher and adult language education: teacher training and the challenges of inclusionis aimed at Master’s students, PhD students, young researchers, scholars and practitioners in the area of second language learning and teaching who already engage in or would like to become involved in drama activities and to conduct research into these. The five-day (Monday-Friday) Summer School willtake place from 22 to 26 July 2019, and will be hosted at Université Grenoble Alpes, France. Each morning will host one or two keynote speakers (in English), and on each afternoon two/three different workshops in two/three different languages (English, French, Italian) will be proposed.

Seminars and workshops include

• intercultural awareness and inclusion in second-language teaching and learning through drama and theatre;
• teacher training through and for drama;
• literature, translation and second-language theatre and drama;
• non-verbal communication and the performing arts;
• drama in the second language curriculum and assessment;
• researching second-language drama;
• improvisation and devising;
• Process Drama.

Confirmed keynote speakers and facilitators

• Fiona Dalziel, Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy
• Filippo Fonio, Université Grenoble Alpes, France
• Laurent Gallardo, Université Grenoble Alpes, France
• Stefanie Giebert, Konstanz University of Applied Sciences, Germany
• Eva Goksel, University of Teacher Education Zug (PH Zug), University of Zurich, Switzerland
• Jean-Rémi Lapaire, Université Bordeaux Montaigne, France
• Chris Mitchell, Université Grenoble Alpes, France
• Emanuela Nanni, Université Grenoble Alpes, France
• Erika Piazzoli, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
• Chiara Piola Caselli, Università di Perugia, Italy
• Pascale Roux, Université Grenoble Alpes, France
• Anna Santucci, University of Rhode Island, USA
• Garret Scally, Manchester University, UK
• Manfred Schewe, University College Cork, Ireland

Fees

The language of the Summer School is English, but there will be parallel workshops in French and Italian.

A maximum of 40 participants will be able to sign up for the Summer School. There will be a tuition fee of 120 euros, but it is possible to apply for a scholarship to cover the cost of this fee.

Participants will be expected to make their own travel arrangements, but the organisers will be able to suggest possible (university) accommodation.

Participation

If you are interested in participating, could you please fill in this form https://forms.gle/KSwM1u5qzUjurBxW9

no later than 30 April 2019.

For further information please contact:

• Fiona Dalziel, Università di Padova: fionaclare.dalziel@unipd.it
• Filippo Fonio, Université Grenoble Alpes: filippo.fonio@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr

Organisation

• Università degli Studi di Padova
• Université Grenoble Alpes