Workshop Speakers

Workshop (Room A): Encouraging plurilingual approaches in upper secondary vocational education 

Abstract

Thursday, June 19, 2025 from 16.30 - 17.45 (Central European Summer Time)

Belinda Steinhuber is head of the language education department within CEBS, an institution affiliated to the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research. She has a leading role in the promotion of plurilingualism and intercultural competence in vocational language teaching at upper secondary level, which includes the design of plurilingual exams and teaching materials, and participates in several other assessment projects. She holds an MA in Professional Development for Language Education and is involved in the implementation of educational standards and curriculum design. She is a teacher trainer and teaches English and French at an upper secondary vocational college. 

Workshop (Room B): Mediation as a tool for action-oriented language teaching and assessment

Abstract

Thursday, June 19, 2025 from 16.30 - 17.45 (Central European Summer Time)

Dr Adolfo Sánchez Cuadrado holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Granada, where he currently works as a lecturer at the Department of General Linguistics and Literary Theory. Previously, he was a teacher of Spanish and Translation at the University of Delaware 1999-2000, at the Modern Language Centre of the University of Granada 2000-2016, and at University College London 2016-2018. His research interests lie within the fields of pedagogical translation, linguistic/cultural mediation, cognitive linguistics, and group/classroom dynamics in foreign language teaching. Among his publications are chapters in Lingüística cognitiva y ELE (Routledge, 2019) or Mediación en el aprendizaje de lenguas. Estrategias y recursos (Anaya, 2022; coordinator). He has also contributed to scientific journals such as Journal of Spanish Language Teaching (2017) or Review of Cognitive Linguistics (2023). He regularly teaches courses and master’s seminars at several institutions. He was the main translator of the Spanish version of the CEFR Companion volume.