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The main events organised to share the intellectual outputs of the LangSkills project with a wider audience are the seminars on teaching English to learners with hearing loss and the project’s final conference. Further efforts of the partnership to disseminate the project’s outputs include conference papers, promotion videos, leaflets and other activities.

1. Final conference

The final conference is an opportunity to disseminate the project’s outputs as well as to meet for all those interested in leading an international discussion and exchange of views in the area of (language) learning, internationalization and mobilities of students with hearing loss.

Date: on the 24th of June 2020
Venue: online – the platform will be specified shortly
Hosted by: Support Centre for Students with Special Needs at Masaryk University
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2. Seminar on teaching English to deaf and hard of hearing learners 

These national seminars are intended primarily for teachers working with deaf and hard of hearing students and all audiences interested in this area. The aim of the seminars is to present and share the project outputs and to open a debate on the language education of deaf and hard of hearing learners.

The LangSkills partners (ELTE, MU, UCLan and TUWien) host their own respective national seminars.

More information on the Czech seminar can be found here.
A detailed report on the Hungarian seminar can be downloaded here.
The British and the Austrian seminars were cancelled due to the outbreak of the covid-19 pandemic.

Date: November 9, 2020 (Update: Originally, the seminar was planned for the 3rd of April, but due to the covid-19 disease spread had to be canceled.)
Venue: on-line, via Zoom (the participants will be sent the access link after registration)
Hosted by:  Support Centre for Students with Special Needs at Masaryk University

3. Publishing and conference activities

  • Rychlá, Lucie. Exkurze do Střediska Teiresiás [online]. In: Mozaika. Mezinárodní vzdělávání pro všechny. Čtvrtletník DZS o mezinárodním vzdělávání. Zima 2018. [cit. 2. 1. 2020]. Available at URL: https://www.dzs.cz/file/7112/mozaika_2018_zima_web-pdf/.
  • Tóthová, L.; Varga, T. Studenti se specifickými nároky a dobrá praxe na Masarykově univerzitě. Konference Czeducon 2019. 2019. 6.–7.11.2019, Praha. (hyperlink to the conference and the presentation)
  • Sedláčková, J.; Tóthová, L. Academic mobilities of students with hearing impairment: Welcoming the challenges with specialized online course of written English. In 14th ESSE Conference. 2018. 29.8.–2.9.2018, Brno.  (hyperlink to the presentation)
  • Peňáz, P. et al. Jazykové vzdělávání neslyšících studentů na Masarykově univerzitě. Methodology meeting of the Association of the service providers for the students with specific needs at universities (referred to under the Czech abbreviation AP3SP). 22.11.2019, University of Palacky in Olomouc.
  • Introducing LangSkills project – During the seminar TCA Social Inclusion and Diversity. 23.–25.6.2019. Wageningen, Netherlands.
  • Peňáz, P., Tóthová, L. Administrative staff training of internationalization. 30.11.2017. Brno, Masaryk University. (hyperlink to the presentation)
  • Improving Sign Language proficiency as an opportunity for inclusion. 3rd International Conference of the World Federation of the Deaf. Poster section. 8.–10. 11. 2017. Budapest. (hyperlink to the conference programme)
  • Kontráné Hegybíró, E. (2018). Siket hallgatók az európai mobilitásban. Modern nyelvoktatás. 24. évf. 4. sz. (2018. december): 60–67. Available at URL: https://epa.oszk.hu/03100/03139/00037/pdf/EPA03139_modern_nyelvoktatas_2018_04_060-067.pdf
  • Kontráné Hegybíró, E. & Csizér, K. (2019). A felsőoktatásban tanuló siket fiatalok degennyelv-tanulási tapasztalatai, motivációja és  nyelvtudásuk szerepe a jövőjük alakításában. In Karlovitz János Tibor (szerk), Tanulmányok a tanügy és az oktatástan világából (pp. 98–107). Budapest: Neveléstudományi Egyesület.
  • Csizér K. & Kontráné H. E. (in press). Felsőoktatásban tanuló siket hallgatók idegennyelv-tanulási motivációja: egy klaszterelemzésből levonható következtetések. Szeged, 2020. 
  • Csizér, K. & Kontra, E.H. (2020). Foreign Language Learning Characteristics of Deaf and Severely Hard‐of‐Hearing Students. The Modern Language Journal, 104: 233-249. DOI: 10.1111/modl.12630. 
  • Sedláčková, J. & Kontra E. H. (2020). Foreign language learning experiences of deaf and severely hard-of-hearing Czech university students. Pedagogická orientace, 29(3). Available at URL: https://journals.muni.cz/pedor/article/view/13259/11364.