Publication about the results of the ICCAGE project in Malaysian journal

The research paper entitled Developing Intercultural Communicative Competence through Telecollaborative Modules Integrated in Foreign Language and Intercultural Communication University Courses by Ágnes Loch and Ágnes Pál has been published in  theJournal of Social Sciences & Humanities (JSSH) Volume 28 (2) Jun. 2020, accesible at the Pertanika Journal’s website. The journal is indexed in SCOPUS (Elsevier), Clarivate-Emerging Sources Citation Index (WoS), Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic, MyCite, and ISC. In addition, Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities (JSSH) is recipient of CREAM Award conferred by Ministry of Higher Education (MoHE), Malaysia.

INSTITUTO POLITÉNICO DE SETUBAL (Portugal), 13-14th of July 2017

Lecture about the results of the ICCAGE project by Luis Vicente Gómez García, Yeray González Plasencia &  Margarida Morgado (Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco (Portugal) & Universidad de Salamanca (España) at the CNaPPES 2017 Conference. (4ºCONGRESSO NACIONAL DE PRÁTICAS PEDAGÓGICAS NO ENSINO SUPERIOR.) Title of the presentation (in Spanish): Desdibujando fronteras culturales: un caso práctico de tele colaboración internacional.

CENTRO UNIVERSITARIO DE MÉRIDA. UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA (Spain)

Luis Vicente Gómez García, Paulo Silveira & Margarida Morgado (Polytechnic Institute of de Castelo Branco - Portugal) gave a presentation in Spanish, entitled: Las competencias de comunicación intercultural en la empresa global y su desarrollo en el aula de español para fines económicos y comerciales at the 16th International AELFE Conference:  LSP in Multi-disciplinary contexts of Teaching and Research. The full programme of the conference can be found here. The peer reviewed article can be found HERE.

by Ana Rosa Arias Gago from the University of Leon

Arias Gago, A.R. published “Identidades globales: Competencia Comunicativa Intercultural” En Matos, M.A. Metodologia, Educação Especial e Inclusão: Veredas da Investigação no Contexto da Globalização. Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil. (2017)

Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague

Martin Stefl (CTU) gave a paper “Innovating Business English? Implementing ICC-Content into HE Curicullum” at the 14th International conference on Efficiency and Responsibility in Education 2017 organised by the Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague. (See the programme here.) The presented paper has been published in the conference proceedings. (ISBN 978-80-2132762-7; ISSN 2336-774X. )  Both the paper and the presentation specifically mention the ICCAGE project.

Águeda, Portugal 7 June 2017

The ICCAGE project outcomes (modules and their implementation) were presented at the VII Jornadas de Secretariado e Assessoria in Águeda, Portugal. The conference audience were teachers and students of Office Management, local authorities and employed secretaries.

The seminar was attended by circa 50 participants who showed great interest in the way the modules were developed and implemented. The presentation was done by Margarida Morgado, from Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco.

It was entitled: Aprender a Comunicar de Forma Intercultural ( Learning to communicate interculturally).

Tampere, 8th-12th May 2017

The biannual International Week called Language Teaching Tomorrow 2017, was organised on 8th-12th May 2017 in Tampere and Jyväskylä, Finland by Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK) and JAMK University of Applied Sciences. The theme of the week was "Promoting Flexibility and Autonomy in Language Learning".

Agnes Kovatsne Loch and Ildiko Dosa, members of the ICCAGE project, participated in the event.

Ildiko Dosa and telecollaboration partner Emmanuel Abruquah from TAMK University chaired a round table discussion on ’Change in culture in the ESP classroom’.

Agnes Kovatsne Loch held a workshop on how ICCAGE materials were developed in the framework of the project with the title ‘From needs analysis to material development’.

Internacional Conference SEI 2017 – Sociedad, Educación e Inclusión, in Granada, Spain,

Symposium held from 25th to 27th of April 2017 at the Internacional Conference SEI 2017 – Sociedad, Educación e Inclusión, in Granada, Spain, entitled (in Spanish): EL TRATAMIENTO DE LA COMPETENCIA COMUNICATIVA INTERCULTURAL EN LA ENSEÑANZA DE LAS LENGUAS, by Ruth Cañón Rodríguez (ULE), Ana Rosa Arias Gago (ULE), Jana Zverinova (CTU), Ágnes Pál (BBS) y André Costa (IPCB). The symposium made it possible for the audience to have an insight into the Spanish modules, showing students' feedback and results of each of the modules. This presentation was associated with four chapters published in Entornos y estrategias educativas para la inclusión social.

Glasgow, 4-7 April 2017

The ICCAGE project outcomes were presented at the 51st International IATEFL Conference in Glasgow. The conference was held  at the Glasgow Conference and Exhibition Centre from 4th to 7th April 2017 and was attended by more than 2000 delegates from all over the world. Monika Hrebackova from the Czech Technical University in Prague presented the intercultural communicative competence as an advantage on the global job market, sharing resources, materials as well as experience of HE teachers involved in the ICCAGE telecollaborative and other activities. As the leader of an international team of educators who have taken upon themselves to built the professional growth opportunity, she pointed out some innovative ways and approaches which may help colleagues to learn and develop and which lead towards establishing more effective and dynamic learning environments.

Diversity and Identity

Presentation in Spanish at the Jornadas Internacionales de Lingüística Hispánica. Variación e identidad, Lisbon, Portugal, entitled: Desarrollo de la competencia de comunicación intercultural (CCI) en la clase de ELE, by André Costa. This presentation is associated with an article which is, at the moment, under scientifically evaluation.

Cervantes Institute of Budapest

Ana Rosa Arias Gago, from the University of Leon, visited the Budapest Business School from March 31 to April 2nd, as a visiting lecturer, and participated in the implementation of the Spanish modules of the ICCAGE project together with Hungarian project partners. Ana Rosa Arias Gago (ULE), Mária Szijj (BBS) and Ágnes Pál (BBS) gave a workshop in Spanish entitled El desarrollo de la competencia comunicativa en los módulos de ELE/EFE de un proyecto intercultural in the framework of the international conference co-organized by the Cervantes Institute of Budapest and the Association of Hungarian teachers of Spanish. Title of the conference:

Incursiones en el mar de contenidos socioculturales (V Jornadas Internacionales de Didáctica de Español como Lengua Extranjera).

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University of Hradec Kralove, 28-29th March 2017

The ICCAGE project was discussed at the Hradec Kralove Anglophone Conference on 28-29th March 2017. The conference was organized by the Faculty of Education of the University of Hradec Kralove and focused on Linguistics, Literature, Cultural Studies and ELT Methodology.

Monika Hrebackova and Hana Pavelkova from the Czech Technical University in Prague presented on the intercultural project topics in the context of the latest EU developments. Monika Hrebackova assessed the rationale behind the intercultural language competence acquisition in pursuit of purposeful ICC development, considered its challenges and opportunities in the field of international project cooperation, and demonstrated shifts in teaching approaches and language curricula in HE. Hana Pavelkova focused on the discussion on the impact of Brexit on ELT in the light of exchange programmes, funding, research as well as teachers and students.

Round table event at the BBS

A round table entitled Telecollaboration in education and the 21st century skills organized and led by Ildikó Dósa, took place in the framework of the conference about Research and Applied Sciences at the Budapest Business School. Apart from the participants from the Budapest Business School: Ildikó Dósa (Language Department, Faculty of Finance and Accountancy), György Hauber (Department of Economics, Faculty of Finance and Accountancy), Eszter Benke and Ágnes Pál (Language Department, Faculty of Commerce, Tourism and Hospitality), two  experts were invited with relevant experience in telecollaborative projects in higher Education: Ida Dringó-Horváth (Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary) and Ildikó Lázár (University ELTE). The participants could share ideas about telecollaboration and internationalization-at-home, discussing methodological questions and involving the audience.

Réka Asztalos and Ágnes Pál (BBS) participated in the 2nd Conference on Instructional Design and Information Technology for Learning held at Eszterhazy Karoly University of Applied Sciences, Hungary. They both gave a presentation (in Hungarian) also streamed online. Ágnes Pál gave a presentation entitled Developing intercultural communication competence in the framework of Business Spanish courses via online cooperative project tasks for university students  and Réka Asztalos talked about ICT based international cooperation in the framework of an ESP course.

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Article authored by Agnes Kovatsne Loch was accepted for publication by Porta Lingua 2017 (journal of LSP teachers and researchers in Hungary), which is due in November 2017. The title of the paper is 'How intercultural communicative competence is interpreted by educators and the labour market.

Institute of Languages and Communication at the Budapest Business School

The Language Department of the College of Commerce, Catering and Tourism hosted a dissemination event of the ICCAGE project on the 6th of January 2017, attended by 48 colleagues from the Institute of Languages and Communication at the Budapest Business School. Ágnes Loch, head of the Institute gave a detailed overview of the project, and Eszter Benke, head of the  Foreign Language Examination Centre of the Budapest Business School presented the module Communicating Online, she had implemented in cooperation with Robert O’Dowd, in which her tourism students were cooperating with Tourism students of the University of León. In parallel sessions, the participants could share experiences and listen to the presentation and feedback of all the educators involved in creating, piloting and implementing the ICCAGE modules at BBS. The aim was to encourage colleagues to participate in the project during the next term of the academic year 2016/17, to share methodology and experiences about telecollaboration and to give inspiration for further projects.

RECEPCIONISTA DE HOTEL EN LENGUA ESPAÑOLA: ESTUDIO DE CASO SOBRE NECESIDADES DE FORMACIÓN.

Publication of a chapter by Luis Vicente Gómez García, Margarida Morgado, and Idalina Ascenção in Práxis e inovação em secretariado. Castelo Branco : Instituto Politécnico (ISBN 978-989-8196-66-8). The chapter describes a needs analysis questionnaire of Spanish foreign language in the context of Hospitality Jobs in Portugal. 

Prague, December 6-7 2016

Monika Hřebačková and Eugenie Rinnová gave a presentation entitled Towards Competitive Innovation in Higher Education at the International Conference SCHOLA 2016 - Pedagogy and Didactics in Technical Education.

SCHOLA 2016 IS SUPPORTED BY THE FUND OF EDUCATIONAL POLICY OF THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, YOUTH AND SPORTS OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC: READINESS OF TECHNICALLY EDUCATED STUDENTS FOR THE TEACHER PROFESSION, MANAGEMENT AND MOTIVATION.

The article by the same authors will be published in SCHOLA 2016 Proceedings and submitted to Special Issue of ACTA TECHNOLOGICA DUBNICAE (Slovakia).

BRIDGING ACROSS LANGUAGES AND CULTURES IN EVERYDAY LIVES: NEW ROLES FOR CHANGING SCENARIOS

Four of the project team members (Monika Hrebackova, Jana Zverinova, Ágnes Loch and Ágnes Pál)  assisted at the IALIC 2016 conference BRIDGING ACROSS LANGUAGES AND CULTURES IN EVERYDAY LIVES: NEW ROLES FOR CHANGING SCENARIOS, held in Barcelona (November 25-27, 2016). Based on the first year’s project outcomes, the audience of the conference was given an insight into the ICCAGE project at the presentations by Monika Hrebackova: Innovating ICC teaching – from vision to reality, and Jana Zverinova: In pursuit of intercultural communicative competence. Using a broader approach, Ágnes Pál gave a presentation entitled What does the concept of ’interculturality’ mean in European projects?

Robert O'Dowd, member of the project team from the University of León gave a plenary talk at European COIL conference 2016, where the ICCAGE project was reported.

Title: “COIL initiatives across university education: Learning to learn from each other.” 

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Intercultural competencies - what to teach?

Presentation by Ágnes Kovátsné Loch at the conference entitled THE USE OF LANGUAGE FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES: THE USE OF THE LANGUAGE OF SCIENCE AND PROFESSION organized by the SZOKOE Hungarian Association of Teachers and Researchers of Languages for Specific Purposes and the Centre of Modern Languages at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (Budapest. 11-12/11/2016)

COMPETÊNCIAS COMUNICATIVAS INTERCULTURAIS E DIÁLOGO INTERCULTURAL NA EMPRESA: UMA PERSPETIVA INTERNACIONAL DE FORMAÇÃO NO ENSINO SUPERIOR

Presentation of André Costa and Luis Vicente Gómez García of a paper authored by Margarida Morgado, Luis Gómez Garcia, and André Costa at the International Annual Conference of the Portuguese Education Society, which happened in Viseu, Portugal at the Instituto Politécnico de Viseu (6-8/10/2016). The paper has been published as part of the SPCE XIII proceedings. It describes and discusses intercultural competences and the need for intercultural dialogue in businesses and how this need can be matched with Higher Education training in Foreign Languages.

Covilhã, Portugal (Sept. 16-17, 2016)

Presentation at the Encontro de Línguas Ibéricas (ELI) entitled (in Portuguese) O desenvolvimento da competência de comunicação intercultural na aula de ELE, by André Costa. This presentation is associated with an article under publication.

Trinity College Dublin, 21st-23rd April 2016

Four members of the ICCAGE project team: Robert O'Dowd, Jana Zverinova, Ágnes Pál and Ildikó Dósa participated in the Second International Conference on Telecollaboration in Higher Education, held in Trinity College Dublin, 21st-23rd April 2016. Robert O’Dowd (University of Leon) gave a presentation entitled: “On the outside looking in”: A Review of Criticism of Telecollaborative Research and Practice". Ágnes Pál (BBS) gave a presentation with co-author Ysabel Olmo: Fruits of a Conference: A Padua-Budapest Telecollaboration Initiative. Ildikó Dósa presented the poster International online cooperation in teaching intercultural communication and gave a presentation in the Problem sharing session with co-authors Emmanuel Ebenezer Abruquah, Mirja Kinnunen, Vuokko Penttilä, and Miguel Ángel Candel Mora: Problems in Motivating Students in Active Telecollaboration. Jana Zverinova (CTU) chaired one of the sessions of the conference. The event was an excellent opportunity for sharing experience about telecollaboration.

“Telecollaborative Exchange and its Role in Intercultural Education”

Robert O'Dowd Plenary talk entitled “Telecollaborative Exchange and its Role in Intercultural Education” at ECML Contact Point Denmark: Language Conference 2016 held at the University of Southern Denmark, Denmark.

Intercultural communication competence in foreign language courses for university students: the ICCAGE project (2015-2017)

Maria del Carmen Arau Ribeiro, Ágnes Kovátsné Loch and Ágnes Pál's presentation of the ongoing project with its expected outcomes and the results of the first project year.

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The conference Mobilities, Transitions, Transformations  Intercultural Education at the Crossroads, taking place from 05 to 09. September 2016 in Budapest, is jointly organised by the International Association for Intercultural Education (IAIE) and the Institute of Intercultural Psychology and Education (IIPE) at the Faculty of Education and Psychology of the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary, in cooperation with the International Association for the Study of Cooperation in Education (IASCE) and the Tom Lantos Institute as supporting organizations.

“Using Telecollaboration and eTwinning in Bilingual Classrooms”

Robert O'Dowd gave a plenary talk at Inspiring teaching and learning in a bilingual environment organised by the Spanish Ministry for Education, with the title: “Using Telecollaboration and eTwinning in Bilingual Classrooms”

The event took place from 4 to 7 July 2016, at the Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo, Spain.

Presentation at a DZS conference

Eugenie Rinnova (CTU) presented the ongoing ICCAGE project at a conference organised by the Centre for International Cooperation (DZS). The aim of the conference was to monitor the current ongoing projects within the framework of Erasmus+.

First multiplier event of the project

The International Specialist Seminar Intercultural Language Education and Globalisation: Current Practice and Trends (16-17.06.2016), a milestone in the first year of the project, is presented in detail on this project homepage.

Interview about the project in Hungarian

Article in Pályázati pavilon (pp-14-15) , periodical

of the Tempus Public Foundation (Hungarian National Agency).

The 2016 Spring issue is dedicated to the development

of intercultural competences. 

Presentation of Luis Vicente Gómez García of the paper Análisis de necesidades comunicativas de los recepcionistas del Hotel Tryp Colina do Castelo authored by Luis Gómez Garcia, Margarida Morgado, and Idalina Ascenção at the International Annual Conference of the Portuguese Education Society, which happened in Castelo Branco, Portugal,at the Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco (6-8/10/2016).

Book published

Robert O'Dowd published  Online Intercultural Exchange: Policy, Pedagogy, Practice. (Routledge Studies in Language and Intercultural Communication.) Co-author: Tim Lewis. About the book: "This volume provides a state of the art overview of Online Intercultural Exchange (OIE) in university education and demonstrates how educators can use OIE to address current challenges in university contexts such as internationalisation, virtual mobility and intercultural foreign language education."

Presentation at the 3rd Forum of Applied Sciences

A presentation was given by Ágnes Pál about the learning outcomes of the joint staff training of the ICCAGE project at the 3rd Forum of Applied Sciences, held at the Budapest Business School. The aim of the conference – apart from presenting the latest research results – is to show how research activity performance could contribute to modernizing the content and to updating the required knowledge for practice-oriented training, as well.

Programme

Emerging Trends and New Directions in Telecollaborative Learning

Robert O'Dowd published the article Emerging Trends and New Directions in Telecollaborative Learning in Calico Journal (13 (3), 291-310.  doi: 10.1558/cj.v33i3.30747)

World Café Event

Ágnes Kovátsné Loch and Ágnes Pál, from the Budapest Business School, organized a world café event for the participants of the conference entitled Intercultural communication and teaching foreign languages for specific purposes - what, for whom, how?. After a short introduction, we had inspiring conversations in small groups, seeking the answers to the following questions:

• Why do our students need to study intercultural communication and which competences do they need to develop?

• Which are the most efficient methods to develop them?

The posters created by the participants sum up the main points of the conversations. At the end of this enriching experience, we informed the participants about the ICCAGE Specialist Seminar.

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