På konferensen National Forum for English Studies 2025 (https://konferens.ht.lu.se/the-13th-national-forum-for-english-studies/) vid Lunds universitet anordnade EESS den 10 maj ett kollokvium: Developing communicative competence in English: Challenges and affordances for English language teaching. Det kom så många åhörare att kollokviet fick flytta till ett större auditorium! Arrangörer var universitetslektor Per Wennlund (Stockholms universitet), professor Marie Källkvist (Linnéuniversitetet/Lunds universitet), universitetslektor Denise Bergström (Luleå tekniska universitet) samt docent Katherina Dodou (Högskolan Dalarna). Kollokviet sträcktes över en hel dag och programmet var som följer:
10.35-11.00: Berggren et al.: What’s the purpose of reading? A learning study in English year 8
11.00-11.25: Nilsson: Fostering communication and engagement in primary school through interactive picturebook read-alouds
11.30-11.55: Kaatari et al.: Prompt dependency and the effect of extramural English engagement on learner writing:
15.05-16.00: Kunitz: Interactional competence: A conversation analytic view of oral proficiency and its relevance for L2 teaching (Plenary)
16.20 -16.45: Sandlund & Sundqvist: Methods for doing disagreement: High-scoring L2 English learners’ interactional competence in two different educational contexts:
16.45-17.10: Hoskins: Affordances of material objects and pictures in the task input for practising interactional competence in the EFL classroom