2016. július 4., hétfő

Participants’ feedback about the Intercultural Language Education and Globalisation: Current Practice and Trends ─ International Specialist Seminar (Budapest, June 2016)

Participants’ overall feedback:
  • Well organized, inspiring talks, friendly atmosphere.
  • It was a well organized, high standard, very international, thus multicultural in itself seminar, enjoyed it and learnt a lot.
  • It was very well organized, with kind participants and useful discussions.
  • I enjoyed every minute of this seminar: it was excellently organised, provided new perspectives and valuable food for thought. I also found the discussions with the participants very open and constructive.
  • Well-organized, great!
  • I enjoyed the programme very much, the venue was excellent with the air-conditioning, the project partners were available and open to any kind of discourse and timing was also perfect.
  • Interesting keynote presentations, with some average presentations as well. Chairmen in room B did not give the same time for all presenters.
  • Well-organized, enriching, inspiring.
  • The whole seminar was very well organized and the most important feature was that both theory and practice were well represented. Particulary emphasis was on the importance of the development of critical thinking and autoreflexible facilities.
  • The seminar was very well organized and there was a friendly, productive atmosphere that emhanced the exchnage of ideas and good practice.
  • Everything well and pleasantly organised.
  • I appreciate that the seminar offered a versatile view of intercultural issues which are strogly resonating in our daily lives. The presenters stressed the fact that interculture is an inseparable part of the language and brought experience from the world of business or real life. At the same time, they highlighted its place in university curricula and outlined the perspectives for the future.
  • Thank you for the organization of the seminar; it was a very interesting meeting.
  • Such professionalism and care! Wonderful!
  • I really enjoyed listening to colleagues sharing their expeiences and research work.



Programs (presentations/workshops/online conversation) that the participants found especially important and personally inspiring:

  • All plenaries + workshop on modules
  • Mediation keynote & workshop - Margarida Morgado
  • Barnabás Málnay, superb and inspirational presenter, and had lots of takeaway messages.
  • Yes, all presentations were interesting and inspiring.
  • Presentations: Barnabás Málnay, Anna Czura, Margarida Morgado, Mike Byram; and the workshop on the ICC course activities
  • Poster presentations
  • It was a very good idea to have prof. Byram online as a good tool demonstartion how to be effective and cost-effective at the same time and he said important things about the whole approach.
  • On intercultural citizenship (Byram, congratulations on the topic), telecollaboration (O´Dowd), Mediating between cultures (Morgado) and all keynote presentations.
  • Presentation of Barnabás Málnay, Levente Szabados, Szilvia Tapolczai-Malaczkov, Margarida Morgado, Andrea Hübner, Abruquah-Dósa-Duda, Robert O'Dowd and workshops of Margarida Morgado and Ágnes Loch.
  • I think that the contributions were overall very interesting. I particularly liked the fact that there was an European dimension to the presentations and that we could learn about the Hungarian landscape in what concerns Intercultural Communicative Competence from the perspective of teachers, of university lecturers and of employers.
  • All keynote speakers´ presentations+ Michael Byram´s conversation online+ Developing collaborative intelligence in the 21st Century+ workshop on ICC.
  • Intercultural issues at work and teaching languages in a global market; the social aspect of languages and collaborative intelligence.
  • Presentations from Dr. Dowd and Margarita Margado were just excellent.
  • I liked the workshop tables and the variety in dealing with the spaces. I liked the entire program.
  • Robert's and Barnabas's presentations, and Grazyna's CLIL.
  • The first two plenaries - very concrete, well matched, showing the interplay between the ICC and employability.