Plurilingual and pluricultural competences are defined by the Education Policy Division of the Council of Europe (2018) as the ability to critically reflect and strategically use linguistic and cultural resources and knowledge across languages in order to successfully manage intercultural communication as well as life-long (language) learning. Foreign language teaching and thus foreign language teachers play a pivotal role in fostering plurilingual and pluricultural education. In this seminar we are going to operationalize plurilingual and pluricultural competence for foreign language learning contexts and discuss way of implementation in foreign language classrooms.
This seminar is tied-in with an international conference on plurilingual and pluricultural education which forms the final event of the Erasmus+ Programme Teacher,Culture,Pluri (TEACUP), taking place in Bremen (13th to 15th of September 2022). Participation and registration in the conference is obligatory and completely free for enrolled students. The conference includes key notes by Michael Byram, Ofelia Garcia, Anthony Liddicoat and Ricardo Otheguy. It will also include talks by researchers from all over the world, e.g. Michel Candelier (co-author of the Framework of Reference for Pluralistic Approaches to Languages and Cultures), as well as best practice workshops providing examples of how plurilingual and pluricultural can be fostered in foreign language classrooms.

This course’s assessment requirement and formats will be discussed in the first session.